Architecture

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 04:31pm

Aqua Tower is yet another recent  eye-catching building on the skylines of Chicago. The amazing project comes form Studio Gang Architects, a company located in the same city they had  just changed drastically with this new construction. It is really nice to come across buildings that had a simple idea behind them and that have a design that can easily be drawn or reproduced and be easily[...]

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:08pm

Get a load of this story A Brooklyn Heights small business owner faces thousands in fines — even though she only posted one thing on a Court Street lamppost. The owner of Sketch & Hammer, Susan Hager, freely admits that she taped an envelope containing 15 of business cards for her custom deck and garden design firm on that lamppost back in April. But that’s where it gets intere[...]

Tags: Design, Associations, landscape designer

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:04pm

This is what  “twisted architecture” should actually be about: great looking buildings with completely unexpected angles and creative approaches. “The Villa” comes from Studio Daniel Libeskind, a company with offices in USA as well as in Europe. Here are some words from the architects’ website concerning this project: ” The Villa cre[...]

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:17pm

This chandelier made of spectacle frames (above) is on show at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London as part of an exhibition of work by London designer Stuart Haygarth. (more…)

Tags: all, Design, Lighting, Haunch of Venison, Stuart Haygarth

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:11am

Work by Czech designers including Maxim Velčovský will be displayed alongside tools used to make the pieces at an exhibition in Prague next week, curated by Czech collective OKOLO. (more…)

Tags: all, Design, exhibitions, Czech, Prague

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:08am

Following the visit of MA Urban Design students from MMU to our fair city this week, I offer an aerial photo set of Preston in the ‘fifties (before the clearance of factories, mills and much else). All the photos (more...)

Tags: CiA, Dominic Roberts, Preston, Nostalgia

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:45am

Here are some shots of Université de Lyon's Porte des Alpes campus (click for PDF map). If you know the architect and any other information on these buildings, please leave a comment and I will add a note accordingly in the post.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 07:30am

Israeli designer Noam Bar Yohai has created a series of task lamps made of wooden components held together with elastic bands. (more…)

Tags: all, Design, wood, Israeli, Noam Bar Yohai, student

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:50am

I’ve heard a lot of couples complaining about decorating their homes. But what was surprising, was the fact that they were not so much worrying about how their bedroom would look like, but they were rather confused about the hallways and living-room, as these are the places where they would welcome their guests. Which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense. This is why for today we [...]

Tags: Ideas

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:22am

London designer Tim Fishlock has put together a limited-edition book for design brand Habitat, featuring twenty removable large-format prints by artists including Anthony Burrill and Shepard Fairey. (more…)

Tags: all, Design, Graphics, habitat, Tim Fishlock

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:15am

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions (Part 1) The exhibition The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions explores the intersection between fashion designers' boldest experiments and the world of contemporary art. 25 international artists and fashion designers participate to this exhibition. 5 of them were commissioned new pieces that investigate the convergence of art and fashion. Walter [...]

Tags: wearable, other reports

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 04:12am

The York Theatre in Montreal was built in 1938 to designs by architect Perry, Luke and Little. The interior decoration was planned by Emmanuel Briffa who commissioned Kenneth Hensley Holmden to paint eight Art Deco style murals for the theatre.I don't have any pictures of the theatre because having been badly damaged by fire in 1989 it was subequently purchased by Concordia University and de[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 03:00am

Whenever the Antiplanner reads a news story such as this one, which tells how Amtrak’s Boston-to-Portland Downeaster train hit an automobile, I think, “There were only 48 people on that train. We’re subsidizing a train to carry just 48 people?” Flickr photo by lazytom. While the route of the Downeaster is 116 miles, it is considered a [...]

Tags: News commentary, Transportation, Amtrak, commuter rail

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:22pm

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 09:09pm

[Image: "Landscapes of Quarantine" meets at Storefront for Art and Architecture, October 2009].As many readers will already know, for the past two months BLDGBLOG has been teaming up with Edible Geography to lead an independent design studio called "Landscapes of Quarantine" in New York City. We've been meeting every Tuesday—and the odd Saturday—since October, [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:00pm

I'm not a Catholic, but it's still nice to honor December 4 because it's the feast day of Saint Barbara. According to Catholic beliefs, the martyred Barbara offers special protection for architects and stone masons because her troubled life included imprisonment in a tower. Barbara isn't the only patron saint for architects, however. Saints Bernward and Thomas the Apostle have [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 07:31pm

Brooklyn designers Sergio Mannino Studio have completed the interior of a shoe shop in New York where the walls are covered in interchangeable panels. (more…)

Tags: Interiors, all, retail, New York, Sergio Mannino Studio

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 01:50pm

If I was in Los Angeles next week, I would definitely be aboard the Center for Land Use Interpretation's forthcoming tour, Urban Crude: The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin. From the gallery's description of both the bus tour and the accompanying exhibition:The fabric of Los Angeles, a continuous cloth of development, draped on the surface of the land, is shallow, but its roots, thous[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 01:45pm

Depending on Time by Jennie SavageSafle, 2009Paperback, 152 pagesCardiff, the capital of Wales, has a compact city center but an abundance of 19th-century shopping arcades. These Victorian and Edwardian passages are memorable and give the city a strong sense of place, something that isn't particularly embraced by most contemporary developments (HOK Sport's Millennium Stadium, Wales Mille[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 01:17pm

One of many books I've been enjoying this autumn is On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma, an extended look into where formal deviation occurs in the world and what unexpected, often emotionally disconcerting, shapes and forces can result. [Image: The Dariel Pass in the Caucausus Mountains, rumored possible site of the mythic Alexander's Gates].According to Asma, measuring these swerves and abn[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 01:15pm

Dezeenwire: Steve Rose considers “the eye-popping erections that should never have been commissioned” in Dubai – Guardian

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:43pm

Japanese interior design company Wonderwall have completed a chocolatier’s shop in Harajuku, Japan, where chocolate seems to drip from the walls and ceiling. (more…)

Tags: Interiors, all, japanese, chocolate, Wonderwall

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:36pm

Image of the week : Contemporary perspective montage continued at fotofacade.....

Tags: contemporary architecture, contemporary, montage, perspective, piccadilly place

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:52am

Dezeen and publisher Conran Octopus are offering readers the chance to win one of ten copies of designer Tom Dixon’s new book The Interior World of Tom Dixon, each book specially packaged in a gold Tom Dixon-branded bag. (more…)

Tags: all, Competitions, Books

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:31am

London designer Dominic Wilcox has spent 75 hours wrapping multi-coloured cotton thread around five walking sticks, which are on show at the YCN gallery in London. (more…)

Tags: all, Design, London, Dominic Wilcox, YCN

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 10:23am

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the 8th annual national award for smart growth achievement at the National Building Museum this week. EPA Adminstrator Lisa Jackson introduced the award winners by saying diverse projects facing a range of issues in different environments were selected. The winning projects all “bring together sustainability and[...]

Tags: Policy and Regulation, Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Smart Growth, Real Estate Development, Residential Design

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 10:22am

Czech architecture firm HSH architects created this ribbon staircase for a home in Prague out of 10mm thick sheet metal. Pairs of adjoining steps connected with an oblique external side joist form a bracket anchored in the wall. Each of the brackets is constructed as a rigid frame. The higher steps bear mainly drawing forces, while pressure is transmitted through the lower steps. The concept of a [...]

Tags: Ideas

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 09:38am

This beautiful house – Casa Negra or “the Black House”- comes from Andres Remy Architects and is located at a 30 km distance from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a spectacular natural environment. In taking on this project, the team of architects had to deal with some of the circumstances of the local setting. First of all, they had full responsibility and full freedom in[...]

Tags: Architecture

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 09:35am

Here are some more images of a noodle bar in Las Vegas by Japanese studio design spirits co., ltd, one of the winning projects at The Great Indoors Awards last week (see our previous story). (more…)

Tags: Interiors, all

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 08:00am

Passing along some information on Intensive Fields: New Parametric Techniques for Urbanism, a conference at Harris 101, USC on Saturday, December 12. Click link above or image below to register.Conference schedule:9.45IntroductionDean Ma10.00Chair: Neil LeachTheorizing the ParametricLectureManuel DeLanda, UPennResponseBenjamin Bratton, Anne Balsamo, Eui-Sung Yi11.30 Coffee Break12.00Chair: Warren [...]