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A modern house in Bienno, Italy by Architect Massimo Nodari. The building is arranged on three levels with two distinct volumes designed to break up the large foot print of the building seen against the domestic scale the context, and angled to direct the views towards the landscape.


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Interview with Office dA

Triangle Project

Architectural powerhouse Herzog de Meuron, still riding the wave of popularity from the Bird's Nest - the Olympic Stadium in Beijing have recently attempted to remake the pyramids.....only thinner! So thin to prevent shadows being cast on nearby buildings, additionally to aid this eco-structure's ability to generate solar. Le Projet Triangle, as it is referred is a meant to be a vertical city combining a variety of programmes including retail, residential and offices.

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Video-interview with Spanish architects Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla (Mansilla & Tunon) by Internet-based TV station Studio Banana.tv

blog wunderlust: 12th December 2008

Hands off Norman | Rescuing Rudolph | the chair that seated millions | Creative chaos | Burying Frank Gehry | Sketch 7 | Prince-Ramus in Louisville | RIP Utzon

Glenn wins AIA Gold

Australian Architect Glenn Murcutt has been awarded the coveted Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architecture for 2009 for

"the depth of his work and the breadth of his influence, which echoes well beyond Australia, his place of practice"

New Feature: House of the Week

I have always argued that a house is the most difficult of typologies. The types and styles of houses are as varied as the colours in the sky. And nothing prepares you for the changing whims of a client wanting more for much less, being influenced by something they saw, experienced, or simply felt. As one architect puts it,

"essentially the architect/designer simply becomes the noble scribe of space and ornamentaion of the patron...we don't actually create"

Introducing the house of the week featuring modern residences around the world that attempt to critique the way we inhabit domestic space

house of the week 001: TDA House

The TDA house by Cadaval & Sola-Morales is a three story villa facing the Mexican Pacific . The building's unusual section, with its pronounced cantilevers, seeks to maximize how it occupies the narrow lot and the views of the pacific. The walls of the villa completely open, revealing its spartan interior - a flexible space to casually accommodate any number of guests. The furniture, carefree and colourful and as much a part of the architecture plays against the robust concrete walls.

Metropolis interviews James Corner of Field Operations about the changing role of Landscape Architecture and the much touted High Line.

My Playground

The following is a trailer for My Playground, a new "film about movement in the urban space." The film will be featuring architects, philosophers, urban planners, politicians and a parkour group called Team Jiyo. The setting for the trailer is the Mountain Dwelling apartment in Copenhagen by BIG.

Bakio Sports Complex

by ACXT Architects

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Housing Competition

The Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) invites qualified professionals to participate in an exciting regional design competition to guide the development of a large residential community in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.

Entries will be judged by a panel of national and regional professionals and attractive prizes will be offered.

The competition will open on 1st December 2008 and participation will be subject to the payment of a non-refundable registration fee of US$200.00. The competition will culminate in a public exhibition scheduled for 27th April 2009 to 1st May 2009.

Persons and firms interested in participating in the competition are invited to peruse the Project Brief & Competition Rules that are displayed here or on the website of the Association of Commonwealth Societies of Architects in the Caribbean (www.acsac.net.) Hard copies will also be available at HAJ’s Head Office, at 13 Caledonia Avenue, St. Andrew, Kingston 5, Jamaica.

For more information

blog wunderlust: 1st December 2008

minimal mac...and not the kind you are thinking | Modernism's Monster | me want honeycomb | the Alpine capsule | Green housing: Harvard; San Diego; | Not so tolerant of Gehry's Museum of Tolerance | RIP Joern Utzon |

Architect Steven Holl inserts space into a NYU stairwell. The project for the Department of Philosophy at the New York University continues the architect's preoccupation with porosity this time as a means to invite yet preserve the building's historic exterior. The solution interacts without altering the façade of the 1890 building. The project brief included faculty and graduate student offices, seminar rooms, a periodicals library & lounge and a ground floor 120-seat cork auditorium.

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56 Leonard Street

56 Leonard Street from david basulto on Vimeo.

Proposed residential tower in NYC by Herzog de Meuron.

Video and visualisation by Tronic Studio

a new architectural movement?

The Hinged walls of Steven Holl, most notably the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Tom Kundig moving prototypes, Klein Dytham and Calatrava winking eyes, not to mention the twisting torsos - it seems like recent architecture is all about movement

This dynamic facility is an extension to the courthouse in Arezzo, Italy by Architect Manfredi Nicoletti. The new structure contains the main courtrooms whilst maintaining access to the restored neo-classical building for offices and archives. The extension is enclosed by a volcanic stone wall on the North and an undulating aluminium sunscreen to the South.



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open books: Bibloteca Comunale di Nembro

Bibloteca Comunale di Nembro is the conversion of a former century old primary school into a dramatic community library by Italian atelier Archea . The facade of terracotta elements glazed in carmine red are meant to recall the many books open to the public, and simultaneously reflected as filtered light pours on the interior casting shadows of the books over carrels.

fan club?

High-resolution (print-quality) posters of 56 World Architecture Awards Winners are now ready for you to download, print in any size you wish, and decorate your workspaces.

blog wunderlust: 13 November 2008

Urban Design from 1850 (to 1957) | Mayne warning | Meier madness | 50 Top Ecolodges | Abalos y Herreros Architects have split | Beer bottle temple | Twisting tower NY |Thom in China, despite concerns

House TTN

This multi family residence in Tokyo, Japan by Miyahara Architects aims to

"have more than one nuclear family live together as one"

Each family however has a seperate kitchen unit and bathroom, but they share a common ground floor area with an extenal deck.

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planes, trains and automobiles

A moving abode...

Designer Yacht madness

B60 Sloop by John Pawson
Yacht Plus by Norman Foster
Guilty by Jeff Koons, more
Philippe Starck's Sigma Project
The Shaka designed by Lazzarini Pickering Architects

no2self has recently dropped commentary about the recent free running competition - a sporting event that is highly dependent on the structure of the environment. Interestingly he cites an emerging opportunity for the architect as "courses," the typical urban spaces that have ordinary uses turn special for the event, could be designed space as one could

"rebuild seminal spaces from urban topographies around the world."

Whilst the later approach may be lacking a desired critical interpretation (read corny and disney-fied), it recalled a recent book store (bookophilia) visit and perusing LA Climbs: Alternative Uses for Architecture. The publication had a series of buildings analyzed not for architectural merit - but using a similar language of diagrams, rather how one might interact with the structure and space as field of unfolding sequences by someone running, hopping, climbing, etc as one would in Pakour or Free running.

"oh my island in the sun"

Microcoasts is a series of man made islands designed by Spanish architect Vincente Gullart. Located on the east coast of Spain, the adjustable geometric wooden structures allow users to enjoy the coast's rough terrain thereby extending the shoreline.

The Danish Pavilion EXPO 2010

This is the Danish Pavilion for the 2010 Expo in China, by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

Frank Gehry is no stranger to furniture, but his pieces are rarely meant to be stand alone features like works of art. He has created a seating sculpture on the ground floor of Japan's largest fashion house, the World Company building in Tokyo.

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blog wunderlust: 29th October 2008

the good
the bad
the ugly
the absurd
the green

Spanish Pavillion

Created for the 2008 Zaragoza Expo, the Spanish Pavillion by architects Francisco Mangado is a grove of ceramic columns supporting a large shading roof. The columns rise from shallow pools and only are interrupted by glazed exhibit spaces and curious pedestrians.


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(more info in Spanish)

Building of the Year

Grafton Architects wins the first World Building of the Year Award as part of the World Architecture Festival recently held in Barcelona, with the yet unopened faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan.

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Icon's 50th

AJ chats with Stirling prize winners | another Corb apprentice passes | Corb in Iraq | more from your boy Banksy | Future Systems has split | Out there - Architecture beyond Building | Prince Charles attacks architects (again) |

the BIG lecture

recently attended lecture by Bjarke Ingels of BIG for the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky

there's one to music too

Ecological Design In The Tropics (EDITT) is a proposal by TR Hamzah & Yeang for a 26-story high-rise constructed of recycled and recyclable materials featuring photovoltaic panels, natural ventilation, and a biogas generation plant all wrapped within an insulating living wall that covers half of its surface area. The eco-tower is designed to collect rainwater and re-distribute its grey-water for both irrigation and toilet flushing with an estimated 55% self-sufficiency and a photovoltaic system that can supply 40% of its energy needs.

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poop house

As an alternative to waste, Andrew Maynard is proposing a novel way of utilising otherwise discarded material to effortlessly create structure over time.

mayne does housing

Morphosis has recently completed a housing project in a suburban neighbourhood in Madrid, Spain that explores a social model recalling village topologies, as an alternative to the faceless block of flats. The outcome appears to be a project out of scale with its context, with the privacy created in the narrow streets contradicted by the scale of the row of flats place on the perimeter. The use of heat stacks, as passive climate control is keenly integrated into the design as are the porusity of walls, staggered openings and the landscaped trellis.

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Student Film Competition


“Story about a Place” is a student design competition sponsored by the Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment

concept

With its first annual student competition, SMIBE brings together a growing body of moving image stories about the built environment. We hope the competition will become a forum for the exchange and discussion of persuasive issues about the built environment. For this competition, SMIBE welcomes moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing. What are issues that we should be addressing in our built world?

The Matiatia House by New Zealand architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan, is one of a handful of modern yet ecologically sensitive residences designed by the firm.

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art
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Raphel Vinoly's expansion to the Cleveland Museum of Art

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blog wunderlust: 1st October 2008

A rare sighting, on AD no less | a final measure of funny | architecture reference: the daily show | 20+10+X World Architecture Community Awardees | more wearable architecture | HdM Christmas tree | falling in love with Venice | Massimiliano Fuksas interview

Peter D. Lewis Building

Peter D. Lewis Building
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Frank Gehry's contribution to the Case Western campus, Cleveland, Ohio

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Just back from Louisville, where I attended the Idea Festival where Bjarke Ingels of BIG spoke about his firm and the Designs on the Future City

info on the speaker

Bjarke is an eloquent speaker, and the work of BIG impressively melds concept, formal analysis into built form. It was a treat to attend the festival.

Later we had drinks with him to further pinch his brain about his work and the state of architecture.Correction on the spelling of the principal's name.

Travelling...

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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In Cleveland for a few days

Yves Saint Laurent has commissioned French Architect, and recent Pritzker prize winner Jean Nouvel to design a limited edition bottle for L'Homme. The fragrance released in 2006, comprises of an upturned test tube, somewhat phallic-shaped and referencing his recent architecture proposals in Qatar to Spain, sits on a black hexagonal base with a green float bearing the YSL logo.

critique via architects journal

sometimes modern

The Akiko in Melbourne, Australia by Dakis Demirden Design

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blog wunderlust: 19 September 2008

Make it Right houses under construction | another blog - this one from school | Cantilever Stool | HdM build a vertical shatty in Tribeca | Zumthor wins Japanese Praemium Imperiale | Adjaye's pop-up house | Vinoly's children museum

Harajuku church by Ciel Rouge Creation

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blog wunderlust: 11 September 2008

RIBA Awards - shortlist | historic window preservation | geo-mimicry | What is landscape architecture, anyway | Volume Zero - Correa documentary | sub-studio blog | LifePod | Talking with Rem Koolhaas

to help enjoy your meal

Most of us will never live in a domicile designed by an internationally celebrated architect. But you can add world-class architecture to your daily life with flatware by [...] notables such as Renzo Piano and Jean Nouvel

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blog wunderlust: 02 September 2008

Lebbeus in the Times | the beauty of death | top 10 non-Architects | Birds Nest by LEGO | smack the pony - architects |mobile living...in a garbage truck | plan in photos | 2001 | The Architect - dEUS | Chandigarh to open Le Corbusier centre | more on Corb |