Super-sized down under
Australia is out doing America in the McMansion game - bigger has to be better. "But more rooms and bigger spaces do not necessarily give us what we need in a home."
via The Australian — Architecture

Remembering Harry Seidler
"Harry Seidler preached the gospel of modern architecture to his adopted country (Australia)."
via SMH — Architecture

Loblolly House - sustainable and elemental
Kieran Timberlake Architects designed the house based on the elements of nature - elevated on piles in the trees with the cordgrass marsh elevated to the roof - and elements of architecture - a system of building components constructed off-site.
via Treehugger — Architecture

Golconde
One of the earliest works of sustainable modern architecture in the world designed by architects George Nakashima and Antonin Raymond, completed in 1945.
via Archidose — Architecture

Reading and sledding
The Technical University of Delft Library by Mecanoo Architecten features a massive planted roof, a tilted lawn lifted up from the campus landscape providing a space for walking and lounging and even snow sledding.
via Pruned — Architecture

Nunavut architecture
Some buildings adapted to the arctic climate of Canada's Nunavut territory.
via Growlab — Architecture

I wonder how Brad Pitt is getting along with his interest in Architecture...
Coming across this article (2005) "From Troy to Hove - Brad Pitt's new career", one cannot help but wonder if it is a brief architectural encounter or a long lasting love with 'bricks & mortar'?!
via Guardian — Architecture

Architects as developers?
Metrohouse is a design and development company that builds modern homes in Austin, Texas. They don't say that they are architects... and maybe they aren't... but maybe architects could learn something here.
via Moco Loco — Architecture

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh by Koning Eizenberg
John Hill explores the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh as designed by California based Koning Eizenberg Architecture - two classical buildings linked together by a dynamic modern structure.
via Archidose — Architecture

"Cladding: the comeback"
"Minimalist glass and steel exteriors are so over. Now fashionable building designers are dressing their works in the architectural equivalent of flared trousers. By Steve Rose"
via Guardian — Architecture

Teddy Cruz and Tijuana (sub)urbanism
I've had the pleasure of touring Tijuana with San Diego based architect Teddy Cruz, investigating the unique form of urban development and makeshift architecture that exists in this border town. Nicolai Ourousoff profiles.
via NY Times — Architecture

Don't call him a postmodernist
An article profiling Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. Apparently he doesn't like his work being called postmodern. Huh... you know what I say? PoMo! PoMo, PoMo, PoMo!
via LA Times — Architecture

Architect Harry Seidler dies
"Architect Harry Seidler, who designed some of Australia's most iconic buildings, has died at the age of 82."
via ABC Australia — Architecture

New and old together... it's OK
"Anyone who thinks contemporary architecture doesn't belong on Main Street U.S.A. should visit the 200 block of University Avenue in Palo Alto."
via SF Gate — Architecture

A greenhouse for the 21st century
Wilkinson Eyre Architects designs a modern Alpine House at Kew Gardens.
via Guardian — Architecture

AIA LA Restaurant Design Awards
We would like to congratulate our friend Lorcan O'Herlihy for winning the excellence in restaurant design for Café R&D, and a very special shoutout to our German superfantastik buddies Wolfram and Lars from Graft, for being nominated for this very sa
via AIA — Architecture

Spanish Fly
Spain is the flavor du jour, er, del día. Ahem... anyway... architecture in Spain is a hot topic at the moment. Slate asks, "How did modern architecture in Spain get so good?" and has a slide-show essay (covering much of the same content as the curre
via Slate — Architecture

A rousing encore for the Eichlers
"Eichler was the first California builder to hire progressive architects to translate Frank Lloyd Wright's and the experimental Case Study House custom designs into affordable tract houses."
via LA Times — Architecture

New Orleans 2.0
Here is an article with slideshow for the NAI exhibit "Newer Orleans, a Shared Space" showcasing proposals from architecture and landscape firms for how to rebuild the Crescent City.
via SPIEGEL — Architecture

That's no way to treat a masterpiece
Philip Drew is not impressed with Joern Utzon's addition to his masterpiece the Sydney Opera House; "...the very ideals Utzon sought to protect by withdrawing his services in 1966 are corrupted."
via The Australian — Architecture

Mario Botta + Donald Judd + Corrugated Siding =
Urs Peter Flueckiger - an architect who ended up in Lubbock Texas, by way of Lugano, Switzerland. Then builds a house for $51 a square foot. Are we talkin' 2006 dollars here?
via NY Times — Architecture

Prince-Ramus to Koolhaas: "You're starting to design more as a virtuoso, not as a thinker."
SNAP! OMA New York's Joshua Prince-Ramus lets it fly in an interview published in Business Week (BW is really into architecture these days). OMA NY's design process: "If someone says, 'This is how you solve that problem,' you give them the bird."
via Business Week — Architecture

A pavilion for every purpose
An 1859 weatherboard cottage in Australia is converted by architect Steve Domoney into a low-energy, sustainable structure. The house features solar cells, grey-water recycling, rainwater retention and a strong connection between house and garden.
via The Age — Architecture

OMA's Museum Plaza in Louisville, KY
OMA has some great 3D modelling and video editing folks working for them alongside their usual amazing design team.
via Archiseek — Architecture

Interview with Amanda Levete
An informal chat with Amanda Levete who, together with Jan Kaplicky, heads up FutureSystems. They are behind the sinuous curves of Selfridges in Birmingham or the 'Futurama' form of the Lords Media Centre.
via Design Boom — Architecture

Wembley Stadium not ready for FA Cup final
After much debate and speculations, it was announced yesterday the new Wembley Stadium won't be ready for the FA Cup final in May. A clear example of when architectural factors of politics, expectations and reality don't meet.
via Times — Architecture

Gehry lets his ideas just flow
Frank on Las Vegas, "More than the individual buildings, I think I like it more as a texture, like Times Square. It is an excitement. It is over the top. It is not someplace I need to go to personally."
via LA Times — Architecture

After the buzz disappears, so do the crowds
John King slams the notion of 'iconic architecture as urban savior using' Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio as a case in point.
via SF Gate — Architecture

Spain on the brain
In the vain (hehe...) of our post for MoMA's current On-Site exhibit featuring architecture in Spain, check out the "Metropol Parasol", a project by J. Mayer H. for Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville.
via Archidose — Architecture

Wembley Stadium
Lord Norman Foster discusses his design for the new Wembley Stadium with a brief slide show.
via BBC — Architecture