football time

There will be a late post to the blog - watching football; bear with me.

- mad

What is your favourite meeting place?

openDemocracy is running a debate about architecture and participation, in response to an exciting new project by Lift, the London International Festival of Theatre. Lift's architecture competition invited designs for its New Parliament in London, UK , a transportable meeting and performance space, and a public vote (closing on June 30th) is now in progress to choose the team who will develop the building.

Experts, cultural practitioners, and interested readers are invited to talk about the spaces and environments where they choose to meet and create. The debate has already started, and will take place over this week and next.

Peter Barber Architects' Donnybrook Quarter "proposal is a celebration of the public social life of the street. "

pruned : on landscape architecture and related fields
(do you think the pun is intended?)

'an airstrip for Russian prostitutes' - Koolhaas via

Number 2

Architechnophilia apparently is no.2 at the Top 10 sources on Architecture.

Sweet!

most expensive cities

The Sydney Morning Herald has a surprising list of the 50 most expensive cities in the world to live in, factoring in "housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment."

1. Moscow, 2. Seoul, 3. Tokyo, 4. Hong Kong, 5. London

via boing boing

its summer

feld72 is a collective, a laboratory for architecture, engaged in research and finding new strategies for cliché-dominated or underestimated (urban) conditions.

sidewalk disgrace: dangerous to the disabled,

building green,

architecture 53seven,

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Chicago based architects Dirk Dennison

enjoy

Details: Grantley Adams Int'l Airport

Geek Shangri-la

A brainstorming mezzanine with AstroTurf carpet

Google's new headquarters in Mountain View, California designed Clive Wilkinson Architects

read the rest here

see also 13 ways to collaborate - google style

drawing board

you asked to see....what I'm working on

ZJB Radio Montserrat


-yeyah!

by Eva Jiricna

via treehugger

Chilean Architect Mathias Klotz; estudio klotz



"I am a hybrid...[and] I have understood that the project is by and for the client and, ... his satisfaction is essential as being the only way the building has a full life or subsistence"

projects: Barbados

The Creative Arts Centre, UWI CaveHill, Barbados



by Ricardo Anderson, SRM Architects

More

New church under construction by SRM Architects, Barbados

ah'be:landscape

drinks

drinks with the architects at Pravda, contemporary island style lounge

Barbados - by taxi

these are from the drive back from Bridgetown just to give an idea of what Barbados looks like.

Three Urban Destinations in Downtown Madrid

The main objective of this competition is the urban definition of the main corridors indicated on the Urban Destination Master Plan. Is about a series of destinations characterized by the capacity of establish a special relation between citizenship and the time experienced in the city: a sporting destination, a cultural destination and other slow destination.

see here for more
via Archiseek