Rivista
Works
on 28/08/14
Minimalist design meets everlasting intellectual values. Temple of books shaped into a long brick house in the side of the Big-Proud Peak, Hungary, from Foldes Architects. Foldes Architects
Film
on 28/08/14
CODA: Collaboration of Design + Art, an online community that celebrates design projects featuring commissioned artworks, has announced the winners of the 2014 CODA Awards in ten categories. John Hill
Found
on 28/08/14
Norway's Snøhetta has designed a pair of beehives installed on a rooftop in Oslo's Vulkan area, in an effort to educate visitors and bring more bees to the city. John Hill
Film
on 27/08/14
The second installmant of Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series looks at Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari's efforts to rebuild villages in the flood-stricken Sindh region. John Hill
Found
on 27/08/14
American-Architects member firm Architecture Is Fun is featured in the most recent Success Story from Nemetschek Vectorworks. John Hill
Works
on 27/08/14
The OMA-designed Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) tops out today. Consisting of three theatres plugged into a central cube, TPAC encourages experimental theatre production, while a public loop invites wider engagement in the performing arts. OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Works
on 27/08/14
In 2011 Realdania arranged a competition to draw the maintenance-free houses of the future. Arkitema Architects won that competition with a simple, wooden house. Arkitema Architects
Found
on 26/08/14
This weekend sees exhibitions ending at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona and the Materials & Applications outdoor space in Los Angeles. John Hill
Headlines
on 26/08/14
New York Review of Books architecture critic Martin Filler has issued a letter of regret just days after architect Zaha Hadid filed a lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. John Hill
Works
on 25/08/14
Located in the heart of the historic Little Italy neighborhood in Cleveland, the townhouse is one of a pair of urban single-family residences at the foot of a hill dividing Little Italy from Cleveland Heights. John Hill, Bucchieri Architects
Rassegne
on 25/08/14
The impact of architecture is often felt beyond the walls of a particular building. In the case of this residence hall serving the students of Williston State College in North Dakota, the building frees up much needed space in the community to alleviate a housing shortage. The...
Works
on 25/08/14
The Architecture itself aims to blend the inner and outer spaces. "Tree brings sunny and refreshing weather to the circumference." Intends to develop a reproduction method while preserving its historic context even in a small building. Kohki Hiranuma Architect & Associates
Works
on 25/08/14
The idea of Rose Pavilion derives from the free-standing constructions popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Dimitry Demin
Headlines
on 22/08/14
Architect Zaha Hadid has sued The New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler over comments in a recent book review. John Hill
Works
on 22/08/14
Factory Berlin is a 10,000m2 start-up campus in Berlin Mitte, home to Twitter, Soundcloud and 6Wunderkinder. The campus is hosted by Google. Julian Breinersdorfer Architecture
Headlines
on 21/08/14
Last week Chicago's Graham Foundation announced the 42 recipients of its grants to organizations, $480,000 to "support projects that engage original ideas in architecture." We highlight ten standouts from the bunch. John Hill
Works
on 21/08/14
NORD Architects has designed a new hospice for the deaconess community in Copenhagen. The project will replace the existing hospice, designed to reflect and support the notion that healing architecture has a positive effect on palliative patients. NORD Architects Copenhagen
Headlines
on 20/08/14
The "LEGO House" experience center broke ground in Billund, Denmark, yesterday as three generations of the LEGO Group family laid foundation stones for the Bjarke Ingels-designed building set to open in 2016. John Hill
Found
on 20/08/14
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's first solo show at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, opens today, running until January 4, 2015. John Hill
Found
on 20/08/14
Urban Reef, the competition-winning design of Kaz Bremner, Jeremiah Deutscher, Michael Siy and Kenneth Navarra, has taken over one block of Vancouver's Robson Street with a curling sculpture that invites people to sit, relax and play. John Hill
Headlines
on 19/08/14
The Moscow Times reports that the Shukhov Radio and Television Tower, threatened with demolition, has been placed on an official protected landmarks list. John Hill
Film
on 19/08/14
The first installment in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series looks at "self-build legend" Santiago Cirugeda's work in and around Seville, Spain. John Hill
Found
on 19/08/14
As part of its BMW Tate Live 2014 series, London's Tate Modern presents Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival, a new performance commission that will take place in the museum's turbine hall on Saturday, August 23. John Hill
Rassegne
on 18/08/14
Mid-20th-century modern architecture is old enough that the question of demolition versus preservation comes to fore. In many cases the choice of preserving modern architecture involves renovations and additions, so particular buildings continue their usefulness over becoming museum pieces....
Found
on 18/08/14
Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association exhibits for the first time the architectural drawings from the private collection of Alvin Boyarsky. It opens at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis on September 12. John Hill
Headlines
on 18/08/14
The U.S. Department of State has announced that Ennead Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been selected as design architects for new U.S. Embassies in, respectively, Ankara, Turkey, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. John Hill
Insight
on 15/08/14
Good architecture depends upon good clients, a fact not lost on Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), as evidenced by the buildings gracing its four international campuses. This year NPC expanded its New Jersey campus with five new buildings. John Hill
Found
on 15/08/14
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has unveiled the new World Trade Center logo via the construction fences wrapping the 16-acre site. John Hill
Film
on 14/08/14
Jeffry's House is a an installation at Ards Forest Park in County Donegal, Ireland, by architect Thomas O Brien and artist Emily Mannion. In this short film we see how the duo built the wood-and-thatch structure and how it fits into the surroundings. John Hill
Headlines
on 14/08/14
Results for [AC-CA]'s [PARIS] River Champagne Bar competition have been announced. Here we highlight the three winners. John Hill
Found
on 14/08/14
So much architectural photography has a perfected sheen to it, but the architectural images of Italian artist Nicolò Quirico, on display at Costantini Art Gallery in Milan, have a patina that arises from them being printed on pages from old books. John Hill
Works
on 13/08/14
WEISS / MANFREDI has completed two buildings, an office building and visitor reception building, for Novartis's North American Headquarters in East Hanover, New Jersey. WEISS / MANFREDI
Headlines
on 13/08/14
The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2014 shortlist of entries, projects in 12 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill
Headlines
on 13/08/14
Celebrity developer Donald Trump, working with Indian real estate developer Lodha Group, has unveiled his second foray into India (and first in Mumbai) with a 75+-story tower designed by Singapore's WOHA. John Hill
Headlines
on 12/08/14
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. John Hill
Works
on 12/08/14
Alfonso Architects has designed the Streamsong Resort located in Polk County, Florida. Alfonso Architects