archdaily — Courtesy of Filipe Magalhaes + Ana Luisa Soares Architects Filipe Magalhaes and Ana Luisa Soares shared with us their first prize winning proposal in the go.architecture v.03: 48 hours ideas competition. The competition asked for the design of a space of silence and peace, a place which was intended to represent...
archinect — The City of Dublin, Ohio is an affluent Columbus suburb typically known for it’s good schools, easy access to jobs, and low density housing and retail developments that have rapidly sprawled outward over the past forty years. Fast forward another forty years and things may look drastically different. Officials with the...
archdaily — You may remember our coverage on the Flight Assembled Architecture exhibit by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, that featured a team of flying drones constructing an architectural structure at the scale of a 600m high “vertical village” out of foam blocks. Well, check this...
archdaily — © Adrià Goula Architect: Sergi Pons Architecte Situation: Barcelona, Spain Collaborators: Anna Giralt Project year: 2011 Photographs: Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula This project sets out to alter and improve an apartment situated facing away from the road in a 1980’s building on carrer Casanova, on the left side of the Eixample.in Barcelona. In defining the new use...
archdaily — © Urban Search Realty Frank Lloyd Wright‘s 16-room, 6,100 square foot house built in 1897 for Isidore Heller was just placed on the market with an asking price of $2.5 million. Sitting on a large piece of land in Hyde Park, one of Wright’s more highly regarded house, is an architectural...
dwell — by Jaime GillinIn our February 2012 issue we featured the new experimental test kitchen and dining space of Tasting Table, a daily email service that serves up food and drink news from across the country. CEO Geoff Bartakovics was interested in creating a "physical manifestation" of his heretofore exclusively digital company....
archdaily — H.E. Dr Sinan Al-Shabibi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Zaha Hadid, H.E. Dr Muhielddin Hussein Abdullah, Charges d’Affaires of the Iraqi Embassy - Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid joined H.E. Dr Sinan Al-Shabibi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), at a ceremony to sign the...
archdaily — © Alexandre da Luz Mendes & Ricardo Cabeços Architects: PLAN Associated Architects Location: Meia Praia, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal Project: Yellow Hotel Meia Praia – 5 star hotel Building Area: 22 298,28 sqm Design Team: Armando Daniel Dos Reis (Principal Architect), Jenny da Costa Marcos, Ricardo Galego Silva, Quirio Ramalhinho, Liliana de Sousa, Luis Caetano, Hugo...
archinect — About three-quarters of the people who spoke favored renovating the existing pier or picking a "Mediterranean-style" design for a replacement. The ultra-modern design of "The Lens" did not draw support from most of the people who spoke. "We are paying for $50 million for a sidewalk over the water," one commenter...
jetsongreen — Oregon-based Ideabox has been on the prefab scene doing their thing in the Pacific Northwest for a long time now. I’ve mentioned several of their homes and look forward to sharing a few newsworthy articles here in the next couple months. As a preview, I thought I’d share a new...
treehugger — New York's Tappan Zee Bridge is scheduled for demolition, but some want to convert it into a park.
archdaily — © Mikael Schilling Architect: Matthew Lloyd Architects Location: Spital, Austria Clients: Hammerson UK and Native Land Ltd Contract Value: £2m (Twenty Bishops Square apartments) Completion: 2008 Photographs: Mikael Schilling © Mikael Schilling Clients’ Brief: to accommodate both the commercial objectives of the site’s owners and the aesthetic demands of the Grade II Listed St Botolph’s Hall in Spital Square....
architecture.about — February 3 is the birthday of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Born at the cusp of Modernism in 1893, Aalto became famous for both his buildings and his furniture designs. Aalto's ...Read Full Post
archinect — “I’m never trying to be disparaging to these other communities in any way,” says Bill Browne, a local architect on Indianapolis’ host committee who has looked at what other Super Bowl cities have done. “But we came away with the sense that they’re putting on an event. We’re certainly putting...
archdaily — © FG + SG Fernando Guerra Paulo David has been announced as the eleventh recipient of the Alvar Aalto Medal – a prestigious honor awarded to an architect or architectural firm that has provided significant contributions to the field of architecture. “In an era where the profession is obsessed with computer-generated...
archdaily — © Mitsumasa Fujitsuka Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates Location: 5180 Azayumachi, Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi, Japan Client: City of Shimonoseki Total floor area: 1,242.85 sqm Structural engineering: Sato Jun Structural Engineers Utilities, equipment: P.T.Morimura & Associates, LTD. Construction: Kosei Kensetsu Co., Ltd. Design period: 2006.12-2007.05 Construction period: 2008.04-2009.11 Photographs: Mitsumasa Fujitsuka © Mitsumasa Fujitsuka I Kawatana is a historic...
archdaily — With the Holidays upon us, many of us gather together, drinks in hands, and celebrate together. Except the architects. We tend to be the sullen looking ones at the party, clustered together, over in the corner. Granted, architects aren’t the easiest group to approach, but it is possible, IF you...
treehugger — Another lesson from the past: A clever idea for home or camping. We need more thinking like this.
archinect — "You can have a grand dome and grand minaret, but if it doesn't really serve the purpose, if it only has a large prayer space and nothing else, then you're not really fulfilling the needs of the community," he says. In post 9/11 America the construction of new mosques in the...
archdaily — © Edgar Cézar Architects: Atria Arquitetos Location: Brasília, DF, Brazil Total Area: 650 sqm Client: Private Project Team: Gustavo Costa + Gabriela Müller, Ana Carolina Caetano, Alice Leite Flores, Daniel Nardelli, Larissa Olivier Sudbrack Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Edgar Cézar © Edgar Cézar The “Casa 13” is a family residence that points out the contrast among...
archdaily — © Tiia Ettala Architects: Anna & Eugeni Bach Location: Pälölä farm, Nummi Pusula, Finland Collaborators: Uma and Rufus Bach Project Dates: July 20 - July 21, 2011 Work Site Dates: August 10 – August 24, 2011 Built Surface: 13,50 m2 Budget: 800 € Promoter/Owner: Uma and Rufus Bach Constructor: Self built (Anna & Eugeni Bach) Photographs: Tiia Ettala Last summer, architects...
archinect — Artist Mike Kelley has passed away at his home in Los Angeles, having apparently taken his own life. The tragic news was confirmed to BLOUIN ARTINFO by Helene Winer, of New York's Metro Pictures gallery, a long-time associate of the artist.
ti — House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chair John Mica introduced a proposed surface transportation bill yesterday. Titled the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, the bill contains something to make everyone happy as well as things to make everyone unhappy. To please Senate Democrats, who want to keep spending more than...
archdaily — © Duccio Malagamba Architect: Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos Location: Calle Joaquín Eguarás s/n, Granada, Spain Client: Dirección General de Patrimonio. Consejería de Economía y Hacienda. Junta de Andalucía. Budget: 34.930.267,43 € Area: 46.893 sqm Construction date: 2004 – 2010 Photographs: Duccio Malagamba Fotografía de Arquitectura © Duccio Malagamba The Almanjayar zone, the area chosen for the...
archinect — “You should know that Frank and I had a conversation backstage,” the mayor said at the opening of the Signature Theater today, “and we both committed to each other that we would get 10 more Frank Gehry projects going here—in the next 700 days. If my math is any good,...