Foster's Zenith

The Zenith Music Facility in France, designed by Foster and Partners, is now under construction. "The aerodynamic, ecological design includes a cantilevered roof which acts as a wind-catcher to ventilate the building."

via POL Oxygen

"hyperactive curves and German Expressionist angles" Architectural record tries to get deep.

Design Vanguard 2006 but its really about the cool names...SUMO, WORK, SeARCH & BAR.

Oppenheim does Green

The Cor building, in Miami by Chad Oppenheim, combines high design and ecological technology, like wind turbines integrated in the cladding.

modern boxes

BAK Architects (Besonias, Almeida & Kruk) - Argentina

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Bilbao Sheraton by Legorreta + Legorreta Architects. The hotel is part of the new Ria 2000 masterplan for the City of Bilbao, Spain."Inspired by the work of the artist Chillida and the solid roots, history and culture of the Spanish Basque Country, the building is treated like a sculpted block of solid stone, to which certain perforations have been tilled."

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Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel duke it out at Walbrook Square. Employing Nouvel trademarks of various transparent & transuclent skins, however the building's low green status could prevent the herculean site from materializing.



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with Hef's approval

The Playboy townhouse; blessed with such features as a remote controlled sky-light, a 3 storey cut stone wall, mosaic tiled floors throughout, an elevator, a Herman-Miller coconut chair and cctv. Not bad...even more impressive was that this is from the 1960s.

travel blog

An aussie architecture student documents his travels around Europe

Pompom Arkitekter, located in Halmstad, Sweden, is a fairly new architecutre practice with the aim set on affordable yet well-designed living, having recently released a collection of 9 concept-driven prefabricated homes including "Out of the Box"

Artist Noel Harding was commissioned almost ten years ago to create a public work of art in the Don Valley, Toronto most dramatic natural feature the result was the Elevated Wetlands.

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"On the magic form of the golden rectangle, nothing is safe. Relentless reformation of the "normal house" was never the aim, it just happened that way."



Belitsos House by David Hanawalt

recognition

"[...] the exhibitionistic rantings of mad architects..."



In this summer's issue (no.3) of MARK magazine- "another architecture" , a number of blogs are featured including abandoned places, daily dose, bldgblg, tropolism, gravestmore, life without buildings and architechnophilia.

Piano Interview

Renzo Piano talks with Metropolis on future projects and his procured inspirations.

tossed from the mix (2)

David Chipperfield has been appointed to (re)design a home for the new Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, after the original proposal with its giant sail, by Nordic firm Snohetta architects, was controversially dropped due to cost over-runs.

"Good architects borrow, but great architects steal" quoted Le Corbusier. Apparently he would love this Villa Savoye knockoff being built for the Eco-Products Exhibition 2006 in Tokyo.

Foster's throne?

From skyscrapers, cars, door handles to chairs. The new 20-06 designed by Norman Foster for Emeco

curious...

The Curiousity Centre by J.Mayer H presently under construction at the Danfoss Universe Park in Denmark

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toss another one into the mix

The Tampa Museum of Art is following the controversial route to success (ala WTC) having replaced Raphel Vinoly with Stanley Saitowitz (who?)

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not for profit

The guiding principle of the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity comes from the Old Testament: "If a brother living near you becomes poor, you must provide for him . . . do not make a profit on the goods you sell him." Increasingly however, many are profiting handsomely from the families Habitat has built homes for moving beyond building affordable houses for the underprivileged.

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Thom Mayne to build a new 300m tower in La Defense after having won a competition that included Foster & OMA. "There's a fluidity, a sensuousness, a softness to the form as it reaches to the sky," Mayne said, describing the fabric like appearance of the building. This is also to be green proposal comprised of a double skin to reduce heat gain and its own wind farm to generate its own heating and cooling for a portion of the year.

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