It's Dry All Over
"AT first glance, the two homes have nothing in common. One's an urban update of a rustic log cabin. The other, a 1920s Mediterranean casa. What links them is their imaginative drought-resistant gardens -- drastic departures from the lush carpets of grass that used to surround each one and that still front almost all the other houses in their neighborhoods."
via LA Times — Landscape

Persian Visions
Contemporary Iranian Photography
via Archinect — Art

Ecostrip Power Bar
No, not a power bar you can eat, but a power bar that keeps your computer's peripherals from eating so much power.
via Treehugger — Appliances

The Heineken WOBO (World Bottle)
Drink and build... nearly 50 years ago, Heineken developed a concept for brick shaped bottles which could be re-purposed as a building material. Awesome.
via Archinect — Green

Urban Noise Generation
A £1m, three-year research project to build a database of noises that people say improve their environment. It will translate those findings into design principles to help architects create sweeter-sounding cities.
via BLDGBLOG — Urban

Threadless gets physical in Chi-town
L+L loves Threadless (see L+L 7/20/2005 & 8/14/2007)... and now Threadless has opened their first bricks and mortar store in their hometown of Chicago.
via Josh Spear — Personal

Getting high with Ken Smith
Sounds like fun... and so does floating in a big orange balloon "over the nascent Orange County Great Park" with landscape architect Ken Smith.
via Metropolis — Landscape

No-fail houseplants
Some green for your indoor scene.
via Sunset — Interiors

In praise of Grasscrete®
Seven reasons why permeable paving materials like Grasscrete are good.
via Pruned — Materials

Zumthor’s Cologne modern art museum
Zumthor may not fit the "starchitect" mold, but he is a rock star. In Cologne blends the ancient and modern with his signature exacting simplicity and inventiveness.
via Building Design — Architecture

Robin Boyd House to remain in public hands
The home of influential Australian architect Robin Boyd was taken off the market as it appears a deal has been reached to maintain the modernist masterpiece in the National Trust.
via The Age — Architecture

Drawn to startling drawing
A Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles highlights the artists drawings (revealing that all his works were drawings whatever the medium) and "uncommonly clever" use of materials.
via LA Times — Art

An Irish House Hides in Plain Sight
A modern cottage in western Ireland merges with the landscape. Designed by Irish architect Dominic Stevens for two artists.
via NY Times — Architecture

Interview: Neil Denari
Denari on his work, ideology, teaching, and pre-fab... and the interviewer manages to interview himself as well.
via Archinect — Architecture

Interview: Dan Graham
"Dan Graham is one of the most influential contemporary artists working at the intersection of art and architecture. His works have explored a variety of urban phenomena, from suburbia to public architecture and punk music. Graham is also a theorist and writer on cultural ideology and systems."
via Artkrush — Art

Follow the astroturf road
London-based art and design practice Sparks have installed a piece called "Convocation" to enliven an underused public space behind the Economist headquarters in London.
via Icon — Art

Parkitecture
Atelier Bow-Wow's Hanamidori Cultural Center (2005) in Tokyo's Tachikawa City is part building, part landscape with it's undulating roof like a slice of the park lifted in place.
via Archidose — Architecture

D.P.W. Bowls
We just revisited Boris Bally's recycled street sign furniture in our September 2004 Flashback, and we are reminded about these cool bowls made from recycled signs too.
via Apartment Therapy — Accessories

Feelin’ groovy: Charles, the movie
The Prince of Wales will do an Al Gore with ‘harmony’ film.
via Times — Green

Interview: Ada Louise Huxtable
The architectural historian and critic answers a few questions on criticism, inspiration, and process—using her thumbs.
via Metropolis — Architecture

A Prague stairwell’s DNA structure revealed
An impressive hanging stairway of stainless-steel and glass. [slideshow]
via Architectural Record — Architecture

Open House London
Modern and sustainable houses, built with budget and site constraints, were open as part of Open House London.
via Treehugger — Architecture

Tvar, Noor, Ukol, Bin
Not products at Ikea, rather a very nicely designed line of products made from recycled bicycle inner tubes and felt designed by Doreen Westphal of Krejci. Translated (in order as shown above): messenger bag, handbag, backpack... and bin.
via Moco Loco — Personal

First We Kill the Architects
...then we burn the malls, along with 8 other steps. A photographer as urban planner. Interesting.
via NY Times — Urban

Dwelling on Dwell on Design
Even more coverage (decent at that) of Dwell on Design... and more than just this one post, so browse about why don't you.
via UnBeige — Events

Limey
Photos of Lorcan O'Herlihy's Habitat 825 (previously mentioned in a Clip to a review in the LA Times) which is next door to the Shindler House.
via BLDGBLOG — Architecture

Sipping From a Utopian Well in the Desert
The NY Times visits Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri's "lean urban laboratory" in the Arizona desert.(See also Arcosanti, L+L 4/7/2005). [slideshow]
via NY Times — Architecture

A disturbing trend
American workers are wasting less time than they did just a couple of years ago. Whoah there eager beavers, "use time wisely -- by slacking off."
via LA Times — Misc

And yet even more Dwell on Design
Newly Dwell employed Geoff Manaugh reports from DOD as well with some brief yet meatier (than that of I-ha---at) content... this link to architects Michael McDonough and Michelle Kaufmann talking about "Well-behaved Homes."
via BLDGBLOG — Events

More Dwell on Design
*Lite* content from the Dwell mag shin dig (photos to look at with some filler commentary)... also one more post from DOD to be found on the homepage (lite-style) as of this Clipping.
via Inhabitat — Events