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Category: Misc
Nascar, anyone? - via The Brick House
Clipped by Anthony on 2/8/2010 12:49:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
Architect and SCI-Arc professor Roger Sherman ate a bunch of shrooms (and donuts) and then wondered what would happen if Target were to break out of the big-box. He calls it "a way for big box retailers to strategically locate themselves in urban infill areas," I call it something else, but it is pretty interesting. - via Curbed
Clipped by James on 2/4/2010 4:12:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
A slideshow of "ambitious architectural failures" which includes iconic buildings from Fallingwater to Pruitt-Igoe. - via Slate
Clipped by James on 2/3/2010 4:14:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
...actually, he wraps an old stucco house in polyester... same diff. [slideshow] - via LA Times
Clipped by James on 1/30/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Category: Misc
Slime mold know how to eliminate traffic jams... - via MSNBC
Clipped by James on 1/24/2010 7:43:00 PM
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Category: Art
"The eye is a camera, the nose is a turbine, the internal organs are a series of cogs, levers and interconnected pipes -- Fritz Kahn's unusual take on biology became hugely popular in the 1920s. Now a Berlin museum has dusted off the long-overlooked illustrations and is paying tribute to his industrial vision of biology." - via spiegel
Clipped by Nico on 1/24/2010 5:53:00 PM
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Category: Green
"As the world eagerly awaits the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, London is ramping up their own construction plans for the 2012 Olympics. And we just learned this exciting little tidbit about the super sustainable Olympic Stadium currently being built there that makes us even more anxious to see it – it’s going to be made out of recycled guns and knives!" Just imagine what NRA involvement could construct... - Thanks, Danielle. - via inhabitat
Clipped by Nico on 1/20/2010 11:51:00 AM
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Category: Architecture
No doubt we have been watching the horrific images of the earthquakes of Haiti and stared in disbelief at how the vast majority of the buildings just crumbled. "Engineers and architects who have worked in or visited Haiti say that substandard design, inadequate materials and shoddy construction practices likely contributed to the collapse of many buildings in the earthquake that struck Tuesday." writes Harry Fountain. - via NY Times
Clipped by Lorenza on 1/15/2010 5:38:00 AM
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Category: Green
What you say? Emission-free electricity generation through osmosis of salt content between water sources in nature, of course. Norway has opened the first prototype power plant... mmmh, squeaky clean! - via Deutsche Welle
Clipped by Nico on 1/10/2010 7:12:00 PM
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Category: Misc
Forget the carpet, now your socks can match the drapes. - via Unclutterer
Clipped by Anthony on 1/6/2010 12:43:00 PM
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Category: News
"For all the towers that give shape to Dubai’s skyline, the city-state still hails the addition of each new one as a reaffirmation of its reach-for-the-skies spirit..." Vegas, baby! - via NY Times
Clipped by Nico on 1/4/2010 11:54:00 AM
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Category: Urban
"Acres of vacant land are eyed for urban agriculture under an ambitious plan that aims to turn the struggling Rust Belt city into a green mecca." - via LA Times
Clipped by James on 12/26/2009 9:51:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
"Paris architect David Tajchman designed this … timber tennis centre for a competition ..." You'd think that Mr. Tajchman would consult anyone knowing ANYTHING about tennis before designing a visually pleasing but utterly useless facility. Aside from the obvious, it would be awful to play on a court with funky shadow patterns and with such low ceilings... To all Designers: PLEASE consider the purpose of your structure before going into "Let's-make-it-pretty" La La Land... _ Thanks, Richard! - via dezeen
Clipped by Nico on 12/22/2009 10:45:00 AM
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Category: Architecture
According to the LA Times. - via LA Times
Clipped by Anthony on 12/17/2009 7:11:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
"LEED should give performance requirements and let the architect solve the problem. The point system doesn't scale. A bike rack and air conditioning get you the same point. I'd much rather see BTU and CO2 requirements and let the professional community solve the problem. If you give proscriptive requirements, it stagnates new development and research. It's like taking a blue book test." - via architectural record
Clipped by Nico on 12/17/2009 2:12:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
"In 2007, frustrated by the slow pace of rebuilding in the Lower Ninth, Brad Pitt set up a foundation called Make It Right; the foundation then commissioned 13 architecture firms to design affordable, green houses. The organization plans to build 150 homes, all for returning Lower Ninth residents. So far, just 15 of them are occupied, but those 15 make a big impression..." - via NY Times
Clipped by Nico on 11/30/2009 2:05:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
"Maxxi(the new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid), which opens to the public on Saturday for a two-day “architectural preview,” jolts this city back to the present like a thunderclap. Its sensual lines seem to draw the energy of the city right up into its belly, making everything around it look timid..." And if Nicolai likes it... - via NY Times
Clipped by Nico on 11/12/2009 4:53:00 PM
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Category: News
Before there was Dwell, there was Met Home. The December issue will be the last. - via LA Times
Clipped by Anthony on 11/9/2009 11:04:00 PM
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Category: Architecture
LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 29, 2009—Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman, influential mid-century Calfiornia artist/designers, today unveiled a new web site that will allow collectors, designers, historians, and others to learn more about the couple and their remarkable body of work. - via land+living
Clipped by Anthony on 11/6/2009 7:15:00 AM
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Category: Designers
"A temporary design department store in the city centre. Projects of more than 150 designers to see from the areas of interior/ fashion/ industrial and communication/ design..." Ja, Ja, Superfantastik! - via design east
Clipped by Nico on 10/30/2009 11:05:00 PM
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