You've heard of snakes on a plane, now experience fish on a train

less is more, keep it simple, keep it minimal

The Porch House by ArchTeam

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top 50

The Guardian names the UK's top 50 in Art & Design. The list includes Cameron Sinclair, Thomas Heatherwick, Jonathan Ive of iMac & iPod fame, Jurgen Bey of Droog Design, Jasper Morrison among others

top 50

Thomas Heatherwick has updated their website

Liquid Sky, the YAP installation at MOMA /PS1 (Young Architect's Program), features colorful and kinetic water effects. The installation designed by Ben Ball and Gaston Nogues with Fountainhead may stay up through the end of October to dazzle and cool off the visiting crowds at the carnavalesque venue.

"Spatial City" a multi level city in Second Life where the inhabitants can build there own homes was concieved by the conceptual architect, Yona Friedman, as part of the Design Island. Yona Friedman is most recently remembered by his participation in Dokumenta 11 and the Venice Biennale in 2003.

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Article on floating homes in Holland

A blogumentary about building in Tokyo, by Front Office Architects

personal island?

The Single Hauz concept by Front Architects

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Architects Meinrad Morger

A film on Steven Holl's Linked Hybrid presently under construction. And check out the cool images at the wonderSphere!!

Article on Rem Koolhaas, the Guardian

cats versus dogs

Austrian architectural practice PurPur Architektur

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Atelier Bow Wow from Japan


and cows go moo

Anonymous 1% is a weblog devoted to raise awareness of poverty and homelessness through design

The sundance channel is planning to film a six part series, scheduled to premire in 2008, chronicling the design-build of a low income house in New Orleans designed and constructed by the students of the Tulane University School of Architecture.

"Fidel Castro sent me that box of Havana cigars last week"

Jonathan Glancey interviews Oscar Niemeyer, the Guardian

A hybrid building by Blank Studio aims to be a social condenser or public house . Located in Arizona it is a place for the town's inhabitants to congregate and socialize, whilst viewing the landscape or the work of local artists.

10 Goals for the City

In 2006 the Mayor of NYC challenged it residents to think of new ways to generate a better urban environment. The result plan 2030; a manifesto on how green spaces, housing, transportation and the city's natural resources are used and considered.

image courtesy of ©Mary Ann Sullivan, 

Professor Emerita of English and Art History, Bluffton University

it is time to play who's the architect?

St. Louis Abbey (or the Priory Chapel) completed in 1962, by architects Gyo Obata of HOK (Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum) Pier Luigi Nervi was the structural engineer.

close but no winners