on the boards: Minnesota Orchestra

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) have proposed this renovation and expansion to the Minnesota Orchestra Hall. The brick shoebox design will create a dramatic new exterior and open the venue to the city and promenade.

on the boards: Hollywood un-der-lined

Bart de Lege and others in a Dutch/Belgian collaborative architectural practice have shared with us a conceptual project for the Hollywood sign. The proposal emphasizes the word Hollywood without detraction, by creating an attractive subterranean space to hold events significant to the movie industry namely the Oscars ceremonies.

house of the week 65: Bar House

Designed by architects Peter Gluck the near 6,000 ft² Bar House located in a narrow valley in Aspen, Colorado features south facing bedrooms and spectacular views.

New Work: MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab designed by Pritzker Prize Laurette Fumihiko Maki and architect of record Leers Weinzapfel Associates is finished in layers of translucent material seemingly to floating nearly weightless above the Charles River and the Boston skyline. At 6 stories and over 150,000 ft2 the building was designed around the act of collaboration and beyond the specialized programme features double-height spaces for eating and gathering.

blog wunderlust : 19 April 2010

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cows grazing in the rumpus room | roof top farms | mostly free architecture in Seattle | Shanghai getting ready | chicken coop poop power | the best of Banksy | saving Hejduk | how not to run a 4 mile bridge competition | Vladimir Shukhov | designing the Hybrid City | Landscape Architects @ Harvard re-inventing roles | archigram archive online | Vakko

EPFL Learning Centre

Short film on the SANAA designed EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), The Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland

on the boards: Governor's Island

Landscape Architects West 8 and collaborators Rogers Marvel Architects, Diller Scofodio & Renfro and Mathews Nielsen has envisioned a massive redevelopment of the state owned Governor's Island in New York. The proposal will incorporate a jogging path, parade ground and areas to rest.

blog wunderlust : 12 April 2010

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The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

Habitat Puerto Rico | couples who build | jenga | napkin sketch competition | parents call for re-design | stone hedge draws criticism | Athens bans single-use zoning | from Bauhaus to doll house | Next-to-last thoughts on Antoni Gaudi and his architecture |

Hanasaki House

An eerily stunning capture of the Hanasaki House by MoNo architects

on the boards: Brooklyn Navy Yards

This project by the Work Architecture Company (Work AC) re-imagines a former industrial building on the Brooklyn Navy dock yard proposing a more public/commercial facility whose facade attempts unite the varied context.

on the boards: City of the Future DC2108

Designed around that the notion of a more pedestrianized future due to the increased automation of tasks, the city is redesigned around the home as both domicile and office. OBRA Architects envisions polycentric cities - numerous distinctive neighbourhoods of walk-able distances.

on the boards: Africa Institute of Science & Technology

The proposed design for the Africa Institute of Science & Technology designed by Massimiliano Fuksas architects aspires to wisely combine African tradition and cultural values. Proposed for a 1,000 Ha site in Abuja, Nigeria the scheme when complete will contain education facilities, staff and student residences as well as a hotel and sporting facility.

House of the Week 64: House on Takapuna Clifftop

The residence was designed for a patron of the arts on top of a cliff in the coastal suburb of Takapuna, New Zealand by architect Pip Cheshire whilst at Jasmax prior to setting up his own firm. Despite the limited palette of materials and the sedated expression of the form, the language of the architecture boasts a pedigree in a home that is both rich and complex, dually fort-like yet open.

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blog wunderlust : 5 April 2010

The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email

London Redevelopment stalled | new wonders of the world | Serpentine's ever changing pavilion | Oh, my god! Look familiar? | aeroplane hanger re-use | but it won't look like a Gehry | when architecture meets art - it's all about light | on being an architect | separate but not apart - Daily Dose's Musings on this year's Pritzker Prize winners | modern hen house

also check out the Women in Architecture Fund (WIA) although for architects in America it has international appeal

A building can be designed to satisfy "by the month" with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, "by the moment," the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover.

Richard Neutra

Blok

Blok 1min from BREADTRUCK TV on Vimeo.

Happy Easter

So both ArchDaily and Plataforma Arquitectura have posted their Easter specials showing chapels and churches around the world. So to follow suit (joker) I'll post a few images of churches from the Caribbean and a flickr link to churches in Jamaica.

Jonathan Segal Documentary

Documentary on Architect + Builder + Developer Jonathan Segal

on the boards: National Museum of Qatar

The proposal for the National Museum of Qatar by French architect Jean Nouvel embodies the ambitions of the state to develop into the cultural hub of the Gulf. The 430,000 ft² museum reminiscent of a desert rose with its sonorous cocoons appears to both emerge from the sand yet be one with it.

on the boards: Clyfford Still Museum

The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado, named after the American abstract expressionist painter is scheduled for completion in late 2010. The 31,500 ft²museum designed by Allied Works Architecture (AWA) will serve as part of the city’s new cultural and arts district.

on the boards: Musée national des beaux-arts

The Office for Metropolitan Design (OMA) has bee awarded the design for the expansion to the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). The 12,000m² competition proposal by OMA is a series of overlapping boxes adjacent to the St. Dominique Church in downtown Quebec City, will when complete be the firm’s first building in Canada.

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