Naked and White

Hong Kong architect Alexander Wong’s creed is ‘Naked Architecture ’, defined as stripped away of all layers of superficiality”. The basis of his work is utilitarian space is beautiful because it is meaningful”. This book presents various of detailed examination of a luxury boatyard (all clean, restful white lines, like a Hockney painting) to Jackie Chan’s house (“Chinese Kung-Fu meets Chinese Modern”, vivid and red) are illustrated by an adroit mixture of Wong’s engaging commentary, plans and quality photography. He is a fine writer and in these snapshots conveys what he is about very well. Naked + White is an excellent introduction to an intriguing character.

anyone know if wong has a website?

Samra residence in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts by studio TROIKA

Whilst I don't do it for the awards nor the recognition the prize doesn't seem bad at all. Oddly enough archinect would probably get my vote.

get your lucky drops

‘lucky drops’, setagaya-ku, tokyo, 2005
skin-house project no.7

Interview with Architect Yasuhiro Yamashita of atelier TEKUTO on designboom

Learning from chopstick holders...

Bobanddenise.org was developed to complement the production of Learning from Bob and Denise, an upcoming feature-length documentary that examines the personal, academic and professional lives of the two influential designers and thinkers, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Click on the link for more

Centre Stage

International Competition entries for the design of a new performing arts venue in Perth, Western Australia. More here


thanks melon

GEORGETOWN (Stabroek News): THE CONSTRUCTION of Guyana's Cricket World Cup 2007 stadium is five per cent behind schedule, but site engineer Walter Willis is optimistic that it would be completed by the scheduled date.

Meanwhile in Jamaica, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson shows some muscle at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Cricket World Cup 2007 stadium in Florence Hall, Trelawny. Both stadium grounds are to be ready in time for the opening ceremonies.

read more here

You can see this....



this...



and a couple more at arcspace, Will Alsop's Blizzard

For the anti-box lovers out there, image netted from archinect



Its an orthopedics lab by the way

Donaldson + Warn, Architects, architectural practice from Western Australia

A house on an enclosed back-land site in Notting Hill by Architects Gianni Botsford with its own secret garden



And their proposal for a 80 room hotel, Travelodge

dancing Chinese dragons

Denton Corker Marshall has been plying its trade in China ever since it designed the Australian embassy there in 1982. Its new Dongqianhu International Educational Forum Complex, near Shanghai, is due to open by 2009 and will include a convention centre, an exhibition hall, a hotel and shopping facilities. The shape suggests dancing Chinese dragons.

courtesy of WallPaper

ISSHO is an architecture office basing in Tokyo, established in 2002. ISSHO develops architecture, urbanism, and furniture.

Tropical Green Conference

With Miami's current building frenzy, the city needs to consider sustainable design principles urgently, and not only for environmental reasons. Indeed: such an earth-friendly approach is also a smart business investment, offering long-term profits and, in many cases, higher selling prices.

The two-day Tropical Green conference will be an invaluable experience for architects, interior designers, developers, city planners, politicians, and voters in search of learning the ways of 21st century design that will both help the environment and their wallets.

De Young on ArcSpace

New Museum in San Francisco by Archi-gods Herzog de Meuron



more on arcspace

Architects Johnston Marklee & Associates

Alot of boxtastic work!

This is a sentiment very familiar to Montserrat, making smart moves regarding post-distaster rebuilding. See more here from Pakistan

From 60's icon to environmental compound, architect David Hertz turns a 747 into a home.



More here

via archinect

"Gimme Room" - popular calypso by Ambassador to Israel



David Adjaye embarks on his "...biggest and most ambitious project yet, combining library, classrooms and community centre with social and youth spaces. The project marks a significant step forward for him....He is a very successful young architect; he is also a very successful black architect."

see the rest here
via archinect

Continuing the theme of architecture activism...One Small Project

The forthcoming book, titled Building More, Wanting Less . . . is inspired by living conditions in the working class neighborhoods of Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Colombo, Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Mumbai, St.Petersburg, and Singapore.

One billion leftover people--typically called squatters, self-builders, slum
dwellers, informal settlers, or displaced persons (it's a big category)--claim
leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged,
leftover materials.

High architecture to the lowest

Keeping with the Altanta, GA theme the madhousers (via archinect)

High Museum & Woodruff Centre

woodruff_detail
Originally uploaded by architechnophilia.

Recent visit to the Renzo Piano extension to the High Museum & Woodruff Centre. Original works by architect Richard Meier.

The Language Of Design

"Architecture uses its own means. It doesn’t use words, and it doesn’t use statements."

via archinect

its really a crap article

"..they create spaces that you remember" RG Architecture.
A bit too traditional for my liking but a nicely designed site

Call for Entries - Metropolis Next Generation

Metropolis is looking to identify the Next Generation of Big Ideas. They are offering $10,000 to an individual or team of designers seeking to develop a BIG idea that will make our designed environment better, safer, and more sustainable. The competition is open to any student or designer practicing for ten years or less. Deadline 15th December 2005.

check the website for more.

Dream BIG, Do GOOD, Design BOLD.

Next week I'll be travelling again, this time visiting Atlanta. The timing is perfect corresponding with the opening of the new Woodruff Arts Centre by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and a chance to see the original High Museum by Richard Mieir - photos sure to come.

"...the scale of the project is irrelevant. Regardless of the size or the program, the tension between society and architecture is our drive to generate design" Moriko Kira

Sleek and modern interiors by Stephen Roberts Inc

On the Boards...

New Mediatheque by Zaha Hadid

For those of you who love her work...

And now for something completely different...

Archigram's bubble

Fire Station & Rescue Centre by Architects Ibos & Vitart

Hotel Unique, by architect Ruy Ohtake past feature on Archidose

PLACE Architects

I don't like macs....

but they are brilliantly designed.



The British Council interviews the designer of such iconic objects such as the ipod & imac, Jonathan Ive. "His translucent Power Mac G4 Cube, which resembled postmodern sculpture more than office equipment" as quoted in FastCompany

Architects

Torre Agbar by Jean Nouvel



Louver detail

posted on Archinect by schoolblog poster Oliver Bayliss

Charles Menefee

Online portfolio with some fine free hand sketches

more

more from Mansilla + Tunon

Mansilla Tunon

sketchbook

sketchbook
Originally uploaded by architechnophilia.

image worth a thousand words? In this cause it replaces a sigh of relief

Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
(Frank Lloyd Wright)

give me that SEX

Metro Stations, Naples, Italy. Previously featured in the April issue of the Architectural Review "the works are an exciting collaboration between Anish Kapoor and Future Systems...the proposal comprises two subway entrances and a cavernous tunnel link"



this is archi-porn at its best if you ask me

tacki-town

In Dubai, a zany boomtown afloat in plastic fantasy, unbridled ambition and rivers of cold cash.
Bigger. Brighter. More outlandish. Construction-fevered Dubai is almost Gatsby-esque in its audacious thirst for reinvention. This once-sleepy port of pearl traders and pirates is gunning to turn itself into one of the great capitals of the postmodern world.


More here

its all about PreFab

Granted ICON might think its boring (that and blogs) I've decided to post a little on the prefabricated come back.

Royal Homes - fairly modern looking shares alot with traditional methods of construction.
then there's TOMA house these resemble Balinese cottages but are very contemporary in their construction methods


For WAY more

Roaches on flickr

IMG_0709
Originally uploaded by festeban.

Photos of Calatrava's latest attempt

Prefabrication

Imagine a world where buildings are constructed of low-cost modular elements which have been produced to extremely high tolerances in a factory and then transported to site to be assembled quickly and easily. Imagine if these elements could then be endlessly recycled and reconfigured. Well, they’re called bricks and they’ve been around for about 3,000 years.



ICON 27 article on what's "BORING"