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A Finnish obsession with art and style
In 2012, Helsinki will be crowned World Design Capital, but it has long been evident that style is as central to national identity as salted fish and the Moomins, says Rufus Purdy...
Architects' installations at the V&A
Each creation in the eerily affecting exhibition attempts to communicate with the surrounding works but also to express the visceral power embodied in intimate spaces, writes Edwin Heathcote...
The TED conferences – the cosy acronym stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design – are billed as a talking shop for the world's most dynamic thinkers, writes Peter Aspden...
Jean Nouvel's Serpentine pavilion
The French architect's first completed building in Britain stands somewhere between a hip Ibiza nightclub and Soviet constructivist agit-prop, writes Edwin Heathcoate...
Robbrecht and Daem at Whitechapel Gallery
In 'Pacing Through Architecture', the Flemish architects make no effort to present their work as art nor imbue it with a sense of inflated value, writes Edwin Heathcote...
A set designer's bold creation
Sarah Hemming goes to Royal Court Theatre and investigates why Miriam Buether's work for a play about young black boxers is such a knockout...
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Masco Walcot – The adventure continues, and a new shirt too…
Over the last few months and over the next couple of months I am working on a project to document some of the remarkable architectural pieces over at Masco Walcot in Bath and Aston Down ... continued at fotofacade..... ...
Andy Marshall, torch in hand, discovers a gem of a Jacobean interior... continued at fotofacade..... ...
My commission to photograph the churches of the North West of England (owned by the Churches Conservation Trust) has given me a rare opportunity to photograph some remarkable historic interiors. Not only that, but I ... continued at fotofacade..... ...
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One Of The Most Beautiful Gothic Buildings in Europe?
Through his imagery, Andy Marshall reveals one of the most beautiful (yet underrated) Gothic buildings in Europe continued at fotofacade..... ...
CONTINUITY IN ARCHITECTURE
The 2010 RIBA Goldfinger Scholarship has been awarded to Luca Csepely-Knorr to undertake an M.Phil at the MSA. Luca will be studying the work of Bela Rerrich (1881-1932), independent Hungary’s first town planner who had studied under the Windermere garden designer and town planner Thomas... (more...) ...
After a rather slow period the Flickr Plečnik group is seeing plenty of submissions. The picture is by klausness and shows Zacherl-Haus in Vienna (1903-1905). (more...) ...
The inaugural meeting of the European Architectural History Network was held at the beautiful Portuguese city of Guimaraes between 17 and 20 June and fulfilled the organisation’s mission to create a vibrant new forum for the study of the complexity and variety of European architecture. The... (more...) ...
Venice Projects: This Year’s Models & Drawings
Bachelor of Architecture Year 6 Projects 2009-2010 Following the students’ participation in the workshop Archaeology’s Places & Contemporary Uses the students chose sites in Venice for their major projects. Slideshow of Year 6 Drawings and Models Students: Peter Brown, Christopher... (more...) ...
The Degree Shows at Manchester Metropolitan University open on Friday 18th June at 5pm. CiA Studio’s Bachelor of Architecture Projects can be found in Rooms 502 and 503 on the fifth floor of the Chatham Building, Cavendish Street, M15 6BR. We’re very pleased with the quality and variety... (more...) ...
The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome
Eamonn Canniffe has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the above titled conference orgainised by Dominic Holdaway and Filippo Trentin to be held at the University of Warwick in February 2011 The Postmodern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome «What better place to await the end, to see... (more...) ...
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Camachinhos House / Studio ARTE & SMS Arquitetos
Architects: Arnold Aarssen & Marcelo Santos Location: Lagos, Portugal Project Team: Arnold Aarssen, Carolina König, Margarida Santos Interior designs and furniture: Arnold Aarssen Landscape: Carolina König Consulting structural and civil engineer: Paulo Terra Project Area: 110 sqm Construction Cost:…...
Schools of Tomorrow Student Design Competition
The design of educational facilities serves as a major focus for architects and the communities in which they live and work. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that there were 95,726 public schools in the United States in…...
Sinu River House / Antonio Sofan
Architects: Antonio Sofan Location: Monteria, Colombia Project Team: Jairo Gonzalez Consulting structural and civil engineers: Fabio Gomez Project Area: 500 sqm Construction Cost: €500,000 Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Carlos Tobon500 sqm house built to overlook the Sinu River,…...
Advertisements for Architecture 2010 Competition
OpenHAUS and DARCH invites design professionals and design students to create an ‘Advertisement for Architecture’. The most outstanding of these entries will be exhibited at the award winning Surry Hills Library and Community Centre in Sydney, Australia for the…...
House in Ubatuba / SPBR Arquitetos
Architects: SPBR Arquitetos Location: Ubatuba, Brazil Principal in charge: Angelo Bucci Project team: Ciro Miguel, Juliana Braga, João Paulo Meirelles de Faria, Flávia Parodi Costa, Tatiana Ozzetti, Lucas Nobre, Nilton Suenaga Client: Antônio Carlos Onofre / Regina Silveira Onofre…...
In Progress: Beekman Tower / Frank Gehry
Our director, David Assael, took some shots of Gehry’s latest creation – a wavy residential tower clad in undulating metal panels. While still in the construction phase, it is easy to get the overall idea of the structure. In…...
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A House in Showa-cho by Shintaro Fujiwara
A central staircase rises through split levels in this narrow house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shintaro Fujiwara. (more…)...
High Tide Street by James Gardener
University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed this conceptual bridge for the River Thames, London, made from a series of floating elements that would be linked together and free to move with the tide. (more…)...
154 Ha-Yarkon Street by Ron Arad
This residential building by Israeli designer Ron Arad is to begin construction in Tel Aviv at the end of this year. (more…)...
House A by Moure Rivera Arquitectos
This house by Chilean firm Moure Rivera Arquitectos is based on Euclidean mathematics, the earliest known system of geometry. (more…)...
The interior of this temporary store in east London for bicycle brand Tokyo Bike was designed by London studio Emulsion. (more…)...
Tweet about Edition29 ARCHITECTURE to win an iPad
Dezeen promotion: downloadable magazine Edition29 ARCHITECTURE is giving away an Apple iPad on Twitter. (more…)...
TreeHugger
Albino and Half-Albino Peacocks (Photos)
Photo by Yvonne Ayoub Within the plumage of a peacock lies a complex architecture that's continuously changing color. Or so it seems. Though the colors of a peacock are revered, it is just as stunning--if not more so--without them. Often referred to as an albino peacock, it is nothing of the...
Artists Recycle Lottery Tickets into Stuff They'd Buy
An H3 Hummer built with $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets. All photos via Ghost of a Dream. Each year, millions of lottery tickets are sold to people who dream of winning big -- but the vast majority of the time, those tickets end up being just pricey bits of...
John Friend- Walking The Walk At Wanderlust
John Friend and Sienna Sherman teaching yoga at Wanderlust (photo taken by Bonnie Hulkower) Last weekend, at the heart of this year's Wanderlust Festival was Village Anusara, and in the heart of the village was John Friend, gathered with his disciples. John founded Anusara yoga thirteen years ago. He is a...
How a US Ghost Town Got in the Heart of the Amazon
Photo: Carol Laiate Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things -- but an American ghost town probably wouldn't be one of them. Yet deep in the world's largest rainforest lies the abandoned remnants of Fordlândia, a remote US-style...
NY Senate Tells Frackers To Stop While The State Looks At Water Safety
A fracking tower (photo via flickr) The film "Gas Land" has woken people up to the dangers of fracking--the drilling technique that uses millions of gallons of pressurized and chemically treated water to fragment rock to get to natural gas. The New York State Senate obviously has questions about fracking after...
Turkey and Syria Bond Over Saving the Bald Ibis
A Northern bald ibis in the Vienna Zoo. Photo by Roberto Verzo via Flickr. It's got an awfully ugly mug to have inspired any kind of romantic association, but our guide at the bird sanctuary in Birecik, on the Euphrates River in southeastern Turkey, waxed poetic about how the bald ibises...
Residential Architect Magazine: Headlines
Arizona Startup Introduces $100-Per-Square-Foot ASUL Modular Housing Concept
Other construction options could push pricing as low as $25 per foot....
Design Competition Deadlines Approaching
Get your entries ready for these upcoming architecture and design competitions....
Nonresidential Construction to Grow by 3 Percent in 2011
The American Institute of Architects' Consensus Construction Forecast predicts a 20 percent-plus decline in nonresidential construction spending through 2010 and a marginal increase in 2011....
The six recipients of the 2010 Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship will be compensated for the entire cost of the ARE in recognition of their achievements and early contributions to the profession....
Upcoming Architecture and Design Events
Mark these design conferences, trade shows, exhibitions, and other events on your calendar....
LEED Building Performance Data-Gathering Program Opens
The U.S. Green Building Council's Building Performance Partnership program aims to establish new benchmarks for LEED-certified building performance....
Interactive Architecture dot Org
Five copies of Digital Architecture to be won
Dezeen are running a competition to win copies of my recent book Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/10/competition-five-copies-of-digital-architecture-to-be-won...
Homesense is an open research project collaboration between Tinker London and EDF R&D. Bringing open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home selected households will create their own smart homes and live with the technologies that they have developed themselves without any prior technical expertise. Over the...
The Archigram Archival Project
The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. Archigram Began Life as a Magazine produced at home by the members of...
43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art
Written by one of the early pioneers of computer arts, these words by Brian Reffin Smith are part tongue in cheek, part humorously accurate statements on the value, practicalities and nature of computer arts. Thanks to the Computer Arts Society for sharing it with me. 1. The sadness of most art...
Speed of Light celebrates the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. Stripped back to its essentials, optical fibre is a thin strand of glass, with nothing more than a flickering beam of light traveling along it. United Visual Artists have used this beam as the starting point for the...
Thomas Schielke sent me his youtube presentation of Luminous ceilings a few months ago and usually I bin such emails since I like to find things for myself but I really enjoyed the way this research was put together (except the chessey music). Thomas explains that besides these ceilings providing...
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Save 750 North Taylor in Kirkwood
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Touring & Talking St. Mark’s Church
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Happy Ending for the St. Louis Hills Office Center
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SEI Design Group Blog
SEI Ranked in Top 250 Architects
We received notification that SEI Design Group was ranked #200 of the Top 250 Architectural Firms in the country by Architectural Record Magazine. Brian, Mike, Steve, Bari, Matt and Vic would like to take this opportunity to thank the SEI Design Group Staff and all of our clients for making this...
They survived their arrival at SEI, a mojo shower, a wedding and a honeymoon, and they are still eating chocolate. Officially presenting Mr. and Mrs. Wobser. Congrats to Kiel and Kelly!!!!...
It was all in good fun when we decided to have a surprise April Fool’s Party. Brian led the charge with the grill in the parking lot for a great lunch and then we had some funny April Fool’s Day trinkets for all. It wouldn’t be April Fool’s Day without...
As in 2009, and 2008, SEI Design Group participated in the The Chase Corporate Challenge 2010. Congrats to all who finished the race despite the rain during the race. As the race was finishing, the sun appeared and there was a beautiful rainbow. Team Captain Ted Mountain says he doesn’t...
Congratulations to Holley Central School District! Voters approved the District’s $27.4 million Phase 2 Capital Improvements project. The scope of work includes renovations and upgrades to the elementary school and middle/high school, multi-purpose room addition at the middle/high school, site improvements and new bus maintenance facility....
Announcing SEI Staff Additions
Kelly M. Moulton, Assoc. AIA Architectural Designer Kiel R. Wobser, Assoc. AIA Architectural Designer . Hint – expect a change in the future ...
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Is There Enough Room For Everyone On America's Roads?
Tom Madigan asks: "is it still possible to promote new bicycling and walking options in harmony with vehicular traffic? Or as city space gets more limited, will planners have to take sides?" read more...
World's Largest Solar Plant Plan Gets Closer to Reality
BrightSource Energy wants to build three solar thermal plants in San Bernardino County, California which would produce 392 megawatts of electricity. A state energy commissioner released a 576-page report that approves of the plan. read more...
Removing a Racial Slur From Place Names in Oregon
The word "squaw" is considered a racial slur by Native Americans. In 2001, women from the Warm Springs Tribe convinced Oregon lawmakers to take the word out of state place names, but little has happened so far. read more...
The "Instant Cities" of Industrial China
This year China will add 17 million people to its urban population. To house them, places like Guangzhou and Shanghai are constructing 'instant cities.' Christoph Gielen traveled through these developments, documenting the expansion. read more...
Is Water Control Out of Control in SoCal?
Mark Gold, president of Heal the Bay, says that the Los Angeles Regional Water Control Board is the least environmentally friendly board in decades. read more...
One of the problems with investing in large infrastructure, and transportation in particular, is that it's difficult to predict the needs of future cities, says Mathias Crawford. If we're all telecommuting, will we need buses? read more...
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Second Life is About to Change
Progress with adding Collada Meshes to SL was leaked this past week by Beta Testers and much will be written about how this will change SL and it certainly will.Here is a peek via the SL FOrum chatlog: * Import format will be Collada ...
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ThinkBalm Innovation Community to be Disbanded - Erica Moves on
Things are rapidly changing and the rats are getting of the ship.Yesterday I attended a very well attended broadcast on what the future holds for Second life by hosted by Saffia Widdershins, the Editor of Prim Perfect Magazine, and Elrik Merlin of Radio Riel. While this was occurring I...
Finnish Police Investigate Virtual Object Thieft
Up to 10,000 virtual objects stolen from Habbo HotelThieves believed to be between 16 and 19 years old.Up to 10,000 virtual objects stolen from Habbo HotelThe Habbo Hotel, a virtual online world favoured by many Finnish schoolchildren and young people, may have had up to 10,000 virtual objects stolen from...
D8 Tech Demo: Microsoft's Project Natal
Microsoft's Molly O'Donnell joins Walt and Kara to talk about Natal, the company's new gesture-based controller for the Xbox.via: WSJ All Things Digital Published on 6/2/2010Bookmark this: ...
Architecture News
John Murphy has been named chief financial officer at Parsons Brinckerhoff , a global infrastructure strategic consulting, engineering and program/construction management organization....
Stantec Inc. Q2 2010 Earnings Call Transcript
Presentation Q&A Participants Stantec Inc. Q2 2010 Earnings Call August 5, 2010; 04:00 pm ET Management Robert Gomes - President & Chief Executive Officer Analysts Chris Blake - Stonecap Securities Pierre Lacroix - Desjardins Securities Ben Cherniavsky - Raymond James Carolyn Dennis - Dundee Securities Presentation Operator Welcome to Stantec...
PBSJ Announces Plans to Join with Atkins
The PBSJ Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement by which WS Atkins plc, the world's 11th largest design firm, will acquire PBSJ in an all-cash transaction for $17.137 per share of PBSJ....
Intermap Technologies' CEO Brian Bullock to Step Down
Intermap Technologies Corporation announced today that, by mutual agreement with the Intermap board, Brian L. Bullock will be stepping down as the Company's president and chief executive officer....
Stantec acquires Communication Arts
BOULDER - A design firm in Canada has acquired the assets of Communication Arts Inc., a 20-person architecture and design firm headquartered in Boulder....
City regroups from water outage
Work on a permanent fix to the pipeline at the water treatment plant is under way and could take anywhere from a few days to weeks to complete....
The Whispering Crane Institute
Sometimes you Feel Like a Nut!
Well the snow is melting and I am working a on a good size project and all is okay in my World at the moment. It’s at these moments I think of some of the great philosophers of our times and can’t help but want to share their words with you. “An...
Take a look at the following story, for me it just doesn’t pass the smell test. I am not sure, but I honestly believe there is more to this than what’s here, and that part of the story is missing. The mentioning(twice) of the Cherry tree also seems suspicious we’ve planted quite...
Fine Living Network, some Thoughts
Okay, so I decided to watch this show tonight(Sunday, 28th) titiled 15 X-treme Outdoor Projects. Well . . . It sucks! I am about 3 backyards in and it is just terrible, I mean it’s really bad. I guess if you use a crane you can get onto the list . . ....
The other big news here is the Tsunami racing across the Pacific as I write this. There was a 9.5(or so) in Chile around 1960 and the effects from that Tsunami were felt in California and all the way across the Pacific in the Phillipines and other spots. I also am wondering...
Saw this quote tonight, it seems to have really struck something in me. So much sadness and hate and violence, including the Cleveland woman who killed her small child by “scalding her baby to death”. I suppose I would be remiss if I didn’t say I was feeling in quite the melancholy...
Shaun White is the God of snowboarding and the halfpipe. With victory in hand before the 2nd run Shaun went out and delivered n incredible 2nd run, and a ride including never attempted tricks. Congrats young man for your spirit and willingness to “go for it” and capture the true meaning of...
Super Colossal
David Neustein on the role of architecture in Inception. It is no surprise that we react so enthusiastically to Inception ’s frenzied scenes of demolition and detonation. It is also why the film’s protagonists seek to burrow down further and further into the dream realm: each dream-within-a-dream is less tethered to...
Alan Moore on Super Heroes in an interview at The Quietus: I’m interested in the superhero in real life, but not the comic book version. I’ve had some distancing thoughts about them recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be — in their current incarnation, at least —...
Al Baxter, Rugby Player, Architect, Blogger
Al Baxter, tight-head prop for the Australian Rugby team and architect has a blog. Al graduated from Sydney University in the year ahead of me and has been playing for the Wallabies for the last seven years. So far there are a number of rugby related posts and one on...
Sam Jacobs reviews Sex and the City 2
Sam Jacobs reviews Sex and the City 2 for Icon: Manhattan has been SATC’s leading character, but SATC 2 kills it off halfway through. Like OMA, SATC ups its skirts and leaves Manhattan for the Gulf. Like many an architect, Samantha exclaims: “Two years of bad business and this bullshit economy...
I will be speaking at Adelaide University on August 4th as part of their 2010 Speaker Series. I hope to see you there!...
Byera Hadley Traveling Scholarship — Level 1: Roadtrip
Through June and the start of July, I undertook some travel made possible by the Byera Hadley Traveling Scholarship awarded by the NSW Architects Registration Board. We travelled through parts of the USA, Europe and Egypt looking at monolithic landscape and architecture. The following series of posts will summarise the...
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Cyburbia Forums | Urban Planning Community
On the way back from Atlanta, we took these of a gem of a city in west-central Georgia hard along the Chattahoochee River. The downtown is rich with character with the help of Columbus State University. The pics are way out of order. Sorry about that. Image: http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6292/medium/DSC01374_2_1.jpg Image: http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6292/medium/DSC01371_2_1.jpg...
LAM article - When cities start to hurt, planners become early casualties
http://archives.asla.org/lamag/practice.html You need to get ahold of the August issue og LAM to read the entire article. Basically it talks about the lousy job market several Cyburbian know all to well....
The most Michiganish city in Michigan
Some time ago, we had a thread about the most Texan city in Texas. Considering that Michiganders are just as enamored with the shape of the state as Texans are with theirs, I wonder of there can be a city in the state that is the most "Michiganish" of...
Hi, I am Mamun from Bangladesh. Have completed my BBA from Dept. Of Marketing, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Current working at Inpace Management Services Ltd. Bangladesh as the Executive(PR & Market Communication). Objective: _[COLOR="rgb(85, 107, 47)"]In short run:[/COLOR]_ Desire to build my career with a reputed organization, which will permit me to contribute my...
Professional Continuing Education Today
What are you looking for in professional continuing education today? What areas or disciplines are you interested in? What formats interest you most such as the difference between traditional classroom, online meeting, self paced instruction, etc? What do you believe is a reasonable cost today for eight...
Subsidized housing and property values.
I'm trying to figure out how a subsidized housing development would effect surrounding property values. Could someone please tell me what the the concensus of the planning community is on this subject- or is there any recent research that has been done? I've gotten some answers from housing...
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News Don't miss the latest contributions in the Archinect Summer '10 Travel Blogs. Poland's Katowice Railway Station, built in 1972 and designed by notable Polish architects Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki, is facing demolition. There is an appeal underway, spearheaded by Irma Kozina, art historian and the University of...
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'The Architect's Portfolio prefaced as autobiography makes an all too rare case in our digitlally dominated discipline for fingerprints in the act of making. Certainly useful as a coherent design process for the uninitiated, this work aspires to go beyond information into the possibilities of poetic content.' Peter Waldman, William...
College degrees that don't pay
Good news! Architecture isn't in CNN Money's list of 9 "college degrees that don't pay". Art and Interior Design are in there though. CNN | via the Forum...
Featured Jobs Today: in Beijing
O.P.E.N. Architecture seeking Project Architect in Beijing, China View thousands of active job listings in our jobs section | Post a Job...
Field Report: London Festival of Architecture 2010
Urban Omnibus talked with Sarah Ichioka and Moira Lascelles about the London Festival of Architecture. In particular on strategies to invite the public into a shared sense of transformative possibility about the built environment. Archinect's own Heather Ring and her contribution to the The Union Street Urban Orchard project...