otto

The corrugated cardboard chair the otto, originally designed back in 1968 is being re-issued by German design retailer pulpo, is making a comeback as a light, durable, and sustainable option.

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Vacation home by Felipe Assadi

These seasonal habits are constructed from a single piece of laminated paperboard. The units are sturdy enough to handle wind and rain as well are insulated and require no special skills or tools to assemble. Originally intended for use as temporary housing the open-air version is more suited as a lawn tent.

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Global Green breaks ground on a development to include five single family houses, a multi-family center, and a community center. The project has gained media attention worldwide as its sponsored by actor/activist Brad Pitt.

The sketches and models of Frank Gehry featured in Vanity Fair

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Colorado by architect David Adjaye. The musuem will likely on completion, be the only LEED certified musuem in the US, using 40% less energy that typical buildings and sprouting a roof garden by artist Kim Dickey and landscape architect Karla Dakin

A beautiful comment added to the Cerritto House relocation

Norman Foster leading tour of the new Wimbley Stadium

Seoul Performing Arts Centre by Emergent Architecture is dedicated to researching issues of structure, tectonics, and materiality through built work

"I've never really developed a style"

"I always approached architecture as a work of art, and human fulfillment was my key concern," article on architect Mario Ciampi

The Opus, by Zaha Hadid is a mixed-use commercial and retail development in Dubai

clash of the starchitects?

clash of the starchitects? Foster and Koolhaas knock heads over similar designs in the desert

The Cerritto House designed by Paul Rudolph, to be saved from demolition by being moved to New York

The Native Builder

New York Times article on the life & work of Australian Architect Glenn Murcutt

CSA End of Year Show

Photos from the 2007 End of Year Show at the Caribbean School of Architecture (University of Technology, Jamaica)

malibu 5 by Kanner Architects

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2007 International Architecture Awards

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts announce the 2007 International Architecture Awards for distinguished buildings and urban planning projects. The program was launched by the Museum in 2005 as a way in which to honor and celebrate the most outstanding architecture designed and built throughout the world.

Awarded works by architects Sean Godsell, Richard Rogers Partnership, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Miralles Tagliabue among others

the nearly completed BMW Headquarters Centre in Munich, Germany by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au

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Mouzhan Majidi takes over as CEO of Foster + Partners (Norman Foster retained as Chairman), as part of the restructing from the acquistion by congolmerate 3i

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