Kevin Alter Studio

Architects KWK Promes from Poland

If you have designed an interesting private house that has, or will be completed during 2007 why not enter it for the WAN Awards now?

Following on from the success of last year's inaugural "House of the Year" award embraced by international news media as well as specialist design magazines including Blueprint, announcing the launch of this year's award.

International panel of architects will judge entries on:

Originality
Innovation
Form and spatial quality
Sustainability
Context
Client report

casa pavillion

casa pavillion by archipelago.dblc
construction pictures here

The Fertigstellung by BFM Architects

Treehugger reports that Andrew Maynard has begun construction of the Borogrove House, using his Quon Modular prefabricated system.

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new review on LibraryThing, on David Adjaye Houses: recycling, reconfiguring, rebuilding

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Slow Home

The Slow Home is an alternative to standardized, cookie cutter housing. The Onion Flats a project, aims to be a "critique of contemporary architectural and building ... practice."

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The Glass House by Phillip Johnson is now open to the public

blue ant studio, a design blog.

Rise of the beachside megalopolis

Intelligent Coast* is a center of research on coast and tourism. It aims to develop new qualified coast systems with the help of thinkers and experts coming from different fields to debate about new models of development for coastal territories, as a privileged land of tourist economy and new society.

The debate, organized over 3 days, focuses on an emergent European phenomenon, the shifting of the Spanish Mediterranean coast into the next & the first European megalopolis, similar to Tokyo, Mexico City and Shanghai.

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR)

The Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico involved the modification of a 1920’s neoclassical building by architect William H. Shimmelphening, part of municipal Hospital in San Juan. The modern wing designed by architects Otto Reyes and Luis Gutiérrez in 2000, blends harmoniously with the historic building, featuring a a massive atrium in the Great Hall and with the historical face now serving as the main face to the museum.

The works of Anshen + Allen displays a rich understanding and interpretation of the modern vernacular, not often seen in commercial practices.

Not Metric

A map showing those countries that do not use the metric system

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the WestLake Townhomes by design-build practice PB Elemental

More on Thomas Heatherwick, Dezeen features the recently completed East Beach Cafe with photographs by Steve Speller

Industrial sculpture

A ventilation vent by Heatherwick Studio. BBC's Imagine is also airing an episode on Thomas Heatherwick

The Modular Transition Growth Housing by the Phillippe Barrier Collective

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this is so melon

Smith and Thompson Architects