The Olympic Delivery Authority is aiming to deliver on its statement to make the 2012 Olympic Games in London the first sustainable one with this building. The Energy Centre will be part of a primary electrical substation within the Olympic Park to form the new utilities network that is being built across the British city. The Olympic Energy Centre when constructed will be both sustainable and flexible enough to integrate future technologies as developed in the years to come.

some other mad architects

when construction goes wrong | another mad architect blog by Madalin Szemkovics | Beijing's Mad Architects | Oakland's MAD too (Mirogolio Architecture + Design)

landscape additions

How to make seed bombs | Urban farming in Cuba | Bloom: peddling green | EcoLodge by GHK

more via Pruned

blog wunderlust: 08 August 2008

Zaha in NYC but only temporarily | Les Bains des Docks by Jean Nouvel - a photoset | HdM collaborator, Ai Weiwei interviewed | architect's designing yachts 1 + 2| RIP Giancarlo Ius, Vice President of the UIA | archinect feature: making plans | and its the start of the Olympics

Herzog Interview

Spiegel interviews Jacques Herzog re: the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics

more about the stadium

lipstick on a pig

Treehugger's quote of the day, features Germaine Greer's recent Guardian article about what she viewed as ugly eco housing - a search for a new aesthetic? Hopefully.

The builders of eco-houses accept as a given the basic shape and dropsical proportions of the two-storey suburban villa, with pitched roofs, end gables, front porch, picture windows, chimneys, and so forth. This may be because local planning authorities demand that they be "in keeping", even though there is little aesthetic merit in what they are expected to be in keeping with

corrected post - previous made reference to Germaine Greer as a "he" sincere apologies

Guardian's article "Why are architects' websites so badly designed?"

old school green roofs

Emilio Ambasz design for Fukuoka's Tenjin Central Park with a terraced building covered in gardens constructed more than a decade ago.

them vs us??

A Sci-Arc proposal with odd real-world references to indentured labour, found on elseplace - a new blog by Orhan Ayyüce

I was the guest editor for archinect's Opinion Editorial no.1 please have a read.

HdM (Swiss Architects Herzog de Meuron) have brought some well needed elegance to their proposal for the extension to the Tate Modern in London. The previous imagery for the project was a stocky translucent "appendage" to the Tates original brick facade. The design has developed taking cues from the building's history and the architects' experience in museum building and environmental focus.

more and even more

Big Up!!

A sincere congratulations to some fellow architects & bloggers for the recent mention in the 2008 Wallpaper* directory Front Office and Super Collosal

more

blog wunderlust: 17 July 2008

Marmol Radziner prefab video | architecture is like sushi | Corbusian contradictions? | Louvre break ground on Islamic gallery | Gehry's Serpentine | Don't blame Zaha | Jorn Utzon - a photoset

and now for something completely different...a new way to turn women on!!

Design Your Dwelling

What does it mean to feel at home in the modern world? Dwell & Google SketchUp challenge you to explore what this means to you in the "Design Your Dwelling."

Most people define their home as a place where they feel comfortable and secure. But what does that actually look like? What would make it personal to you? Is it scale, materials, sustainability, environment? Only you know for sure. Entry period is July 3-August 31, 2008.

twist of fate

On June 2008, Alain Robert popularised as Spiderman, scaled the recently completed New York Times Building protesting amongst other things Global Warming. The 52 story tower in Manhattan by Renzo Piano and FXFOWLE, is one of the greenest buildings in the city, wrapped with a brise soleil to minimize solar gain. Ironically, the sunscreens were used by Roberts and two subsequent climbers as ladders, and subsequently are being removed from the lower portion of the building, thus minimizing its solar protection and energy efficiency.

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Cameron Sinclair Interview

CNN sheds some light on Architecture for Humanity, with an interview with co-founder Cameron Sinclair

Peter Stutchbury wins the first prize for an extreme housing competition in Cherepovets, Russia. The competition was Living Steel's 3rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing, which presented architects with the task of creating single-family, detached housing that are both affordable and environmentally sustainable.

more via Bustler

Roots - Laura Facey

On a visit to Devon House, one of the premier Historic Sites in Kingston, Jamaica I came across a magnificent piece of artwork. The sculpture, placed at the entry to the gardens of Devon House, appears at first glance to be corten or rusted metal, resembling industrial waste left out to weather. Roots as the works are called, are actually salvaged from a massive tree trunk, and bear their own story of being carried by hand from the inner countryside of St. Ann.

Artist, Laura Facey

more here

The perspective chair designed by Pharrell.

The recently completed railway bridge by Santiago Calatrava will serve as a gateway to the Holy City, Jerusalem. The bridge was designed to be a light and transparent structure with a single pitched pillar pointing in the direction of the city.

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Apologies on the slight pause in posts. I am presently on vacation for a few weeks.

In the meantime chomp on these

Bucky exhibition | decolonising architecture | winner of the USC Architecture YouTube Competition | the architecture of cell phones - the green version |

The Cult of Design

The Cult of Design
Originally uploaded by CSM Product Design 08.

designer action figures...literally action figures of your favourite designers

Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion

- Brad Pitt

The actor is slated to design an "environmentally-friendly" 800-room luxury resort (hotel & leisure complex) in Dubai of which he is among a team of design consultants for the project. The proposal will be unveiled next month. In the meantime Brad Pitt is currently helping to build 150 homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

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more fetish

architectural festish gone bad...a woman who has a bizarre fetish for inanimate objects has married the Eiffel Tower. Also check out this

The Plaza and Public Library are the winning vision in a competition for the revitalization of Dudley Square, Boston. The proposal by Architect Gregory Minott, won for its depiction of the renovated library and was credited with keeping an appropriate scale for the neighbourhood.

more here

Gregory was a former schoolmate at the Caribbean School of Architecture

new architecture links

ArchSociety is a a global architecture community physically based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The site contains a discussion forum, a growing collection of articles, download contents, and architectural news updates.

Also see their blog

Arcilook is a fairly recent blog focused on architecture of the future.

Turned Earth is run by a California based design-build landscape designer. The site continually features their own work with photographs and drawings

& finally The Architectural Scholar. Frustrated by the lack of informative architectural projects being posted on other websites/blogs he sought to fill the void by creating his own for those interested in the academic, conceptual, and innovative pursuits of the discipline of architecture. Sounds like fetish to me!!

NYLON tunnel | Wired Bridges | 2012 Olympic Stadium by HOK/Peter Cook | RIBA 2008 Awards winners | Love letters by Zaha Hadid | The multi-cultural city suburbs | Online tour of architects homes |

Metropolis interview with Brazilian Architect/Planner/former Mayor and Governor of Curitiba Jaime Lerner

dirty house

dirty house-002.jpg
Originally uploaded by *-*-*-*-*-*.

found image of David Adjaye's Dirty House

now Holl does it

Following our recent post on Furniture designed by Architects, Steven Holl has joined the ranks. This accomplished architect, and writer of such stellar works as Parallax, has recently completed a prototype bamboo bench called the Porosity Bench.

For more on Steven Holl and his love of well...all things porus

MoPo 2008

Eikongraphia's recap of the best "most popular" architecture blogs for 2008.

we are no.12 - so thanks to the fans

MoPo 2008

1. BLDGBLOG
2. City of Sound
3. Archidose
4. Pruned
5. Interactive Architecture
6. Architecture.mnp
7. Subtopia
8. Life Without Buildings
9. Tropolism
10. Mirage Studio 7
11. Strange Harvest
12. Architechnophilia
13. The Where Blog
14. The Arch
15. Super Colossal
16. Sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy
17. Brand Avenue
18. Architecture Chicago Plus
19. Hugh Pearman
20. Varnelis
21. Lebbeus Woods
22. Part IV
23. Eye Candy
24. Architectural Videos
25. Kosmograd

check out the review by candyland...interesting to say the least

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when architects design

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

Mies van der Rohe, Time magazine, 18 February, 1957

The perception of architects are that we are most challenged by big projects, the bigger they are the greater the challenge. Ahh alas but the smaller projects can cause as much if not greater grief. Here is a visual taste of architects' attempt at furniture design.

The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

Easy chair by Frank Gehry

Chaise Lounge by Le Corbusier

Nomos table by Norman Foster

Aqua table by Zaha Hadid

West Seating by Amanda Levete/ Future Systems

Barcelona Couch (1929) designed by Mies van der Rohe

the Long Chair is a bench made from a continuous steel tube designed by Schemata Architects

images of the CCTV building by OMA

blog wunderlust: 26 May 2008

Jackson Pollack | Origami: furniture | for your car | 50 ways to help the planet | container heaven | the last modern architect? | Hotel Palafitte: rising tides | Biggest drawing in the world | Design & the Elastic Mind

in the words of Monty Python, "and now for something completely different"

Archi-suits, described as suits containing the negative space of specific structures that allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them. These clothing allow an intervention with spaces meant to prohibit occupation.

The Orquideorama by architects Plan B, located in the Medellin Botanical Gardens in Colombia

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between Cooking and Architecture

This posting at first glance may be about the interstitial space between architecture and the art of cooking or referring to the intersection of food and architecture...where good edible design exists. It reminds me of the television programme with a pastry chef making these fantastic cakes in remarkable forms...including the Sistine chapel. But alas it really recalls de Geuze infamous remarks about us, that "Architects are like Seagulls, they make alot of noise, the eat alot of food, and they leave shit everywhere"


previously:
Cooking for Engineers
Pop-up shops

links to similar:
Liao Yusheng
Architectural Maccheroni

books:
Food + Architecture
Eating Architecture
John Pawson's Living & Eating
the Cooked Kitchen
the Architect, the Cook and good taste

blog wunderlust : 7 May 2008

no vacancy | a denser solution for Kingston | the art of death | learning from architecture | look at what you eat | An architect's wit | Bondi Blue turns 10 | Gulf Architecture: A Tale of 3 Cities | the art of death II |

blog wunderlust: 06 May 2008

sleep with old Blue Eyes | misery | green think urbanism | the biological growth of cities | Working with Le Corbusier | modern retreats | daily dose: Chamber Orchestra of Cascais | from blog to books: first Bldg Blg now Apartment Therapy | airstream delight | skin architecture

10 x 10

Silvio Rech 10x10 South Africa Sketch Proposal

I can't help thinking that the way new architecture is being published internationally—so fast that you can see the same things simultaneously in every country—makes it more difficult for younger architects to take their time to find their own way of expression

- Raili Pietil

Breaking the Modernist Mold