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Prefab: Such a deal?Christopher Hawthorne takes a look at the costs of prefab and at the Ray Kappe designed Living Home (previously featured on L+L).
Elias Torres Tur profiled - Rhythm and restraint"This Spanish architect flows between styles." Martínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos.
Home Office? It's in the Yard"A Canadian company has made the jump to cedar-wood 2.0, modding its standard hot-tub enclosure and marketing it as a backyard DIY home office kit."
Making Their MarkThe runners-up in this year's Next Generation Design Competition aim to build a better world. (Slideshow)
Tall, skinny ... stable. Using novel technology, S.F. tower should resist quakes, galesA new residential tower in San Francisco will feature a unique structural system with two 54,000-gallon water tanks designed to help regulate the swaying of the building in strong winds. (Slideshow, video)
Hoping Zaha's architectural fantasy will remain a form of personal therapyPhilip Kennicott shows a little love for Zaha Hadid in his review of the current retrospective of her work currently on exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
A wider shade of pale"No longer locked into his white period (the Getty et al), Richard Meier has adopted new clients and a broader palette, one that opens up to the geography." (photos)
The Wright sign placementDesign Observer lives up to its name with an interesting design observation at the Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum currently undergoing extensive renovations.
Capilla Lago RupancoArchidose features a "small and unassuming" modern chapel in Chile by F3 Arquitectos.
Folding universe"Building structures that change their form is one of those smart ideas that wow design engineers, but can it really work in architecture? Designer Chuck Hoberman certainly thinks so and is busily developing functional applications to prove it." [free registration req'd]
Couple restore a classic Eichler home"At first glance, Jon and Debby Webb's Eichler home is unassuming. The lawn is manicured. The exterior is boxy. Nothing that would stop traffic along the busy route. But step inside and it is like tearing plain, brown wrapping paper away from that shiny, red bicycle under the Christmas tree."
Lecture - Teddy Cruz"Over the past decade, Cruz has demonstrated a commitment to finding architectural and urban planning solutions for global political and social problems that proliferate in international border zones. Taking his theoretical frame of reference as a starting point, Cruz has pursued investigations that stimulate an unconventional practice addressing the future of "divided" cities and the larger phenomenon of border zones."
Fjord-thinking designThe Aurland Lookout in Norway, designed by architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen... the same lads who designed the much discussed Finland Summer house featured on L+L back in January 05.
What happened to those bow-tie wearing architects?Elizabeth Farrelly examines "How the chill wind of commerce killed off the bow tie."
Bell Labs to be razedThe Eero Saarinen designed Bell Labs complex in Holmdel, New Jersey - birthplace of the cell phone and site of much technological research and development - is slated for demolition by its new owner.
L.A.'s great unknown"Designer Edward H. Fickett pushed postwar California toward indoor-outdoor living. Tens of thousands of homes bear his signature flow, yet few people know his name."
Freedom Tower v3.?So many changes, I've lost track. With Libeskind now a "quoted" onlooker towards the end of the article, David Childs presents his polished up *final* design.
Prefab weeHouse - the LBD of Architecture!Another fine example of prefab houses. It goes to show that "less is more" is still very much the way forward.
A forest in the new Musée du Quai Branly"Chirac's new museum of 'primitive art' may have caused controversy. But Jonathan Glancey finds himself seduced by a building with its own forest and 15,000 plants growing up the walls"
Koolhaas' Serpentine Gallery Summer PavilionSpeaking of the naked swimming Rem... pictures of the construction process of the Sperpentine Pavillion designed with engineer Cecil Balmond.
The naked swimming Rem KoolhaasYet another profile of OMA frontman Rem Koolhaas... but I've never heard about the swimming.
Winners of RIBA Awards 2006 and RIBA European Awards announcedSixty two new buildings across the UK and the EU hyave been chosen to receive a prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects Award for their high architectural standards and contribution to their local environment.
The kangaroos and wallabies come in and outA distinctively Australian "off the grid" house designed by architect Peter Stutchbury.
