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Interior World"Susan Yelavich immersed herself in some of the most innovative spaces of the past quarter-century to produce her new book."
The Slow Home Movement"Taking residential architecture back from the grip of the 'cookie cutter houses and instant neighborhoods' churned out by community-blind development corporation."
Australian National Trust to sell Robin Boyd ResidenceThe home of influential Australian Modernist architect Robin Boyd was purchased by the Trust less than three years ago, but now is set to unload the property considered by many to be an icon of Australian design.
Un-vanishing a lakeAn interesting project by artist Ledia Carroll, whose "work uses measurement to reveal aspects of these internal logics within particular topographies."
Ghost Cities Of 2100An interesting speculation of cities which may be lost in the future to migration, climate change, and/or economic factors. [slideshow]
Competing Visions for Governors IslandFive teams comprised of renound designers are finalists in the competition to design a publis park on New York's Governors Island. "The five proposals hold clues to what’s right and wrong about how public space is designed."
Solar to keep Army on the Go"The U.S. Army is developing tents and uniforms made from flexible solar panels to make it more difficult to track soldiers." Hey, they came up with Velcro too... AND we will now be able to invade countries with a minimal carbon footprint.
Beyond the Garden"Landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander discusses her ahead-of-the-curve career in sustainability."
Sir ArchigramBLDGBLOG reports: Archigram founding member Peter Cook has been knighted. The title was bestowed upon him as a way to recognize his "services to architecture."
Rubik's Cube Coffee Table Makes Your Apartment "Cool""If you can complete the Rubik's Cube legitimately and want to feel superior to others by decorating your home with the puzzle's motif, take a gander at this coffee table."
London's cool new courtyardsStylishly designed garden courts are being designed into new London aparment complexes... will Melrose Place style drama be far behind?
Plants 'Recognize' Their Siblings"Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings."
Food grease to fuel cars in California"Supermarkets, cafeterias and restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken, are partnering with California biodiesel company Energy Alternative Solutions, Inc. to recycle food waste into alternative fuel."
Vertical FarmingSome proposals for the farming of the future. Sorta reminds of some things MVRDV did ten years ago, but still very relevant and inspiring. Smells good too...
$3 Gadget Produces Safe Drinking Water"A $3 gadget that promises to quench a user's thirst for a year without spare parts, electricity or maintenance."
Modesty and MaterialityThe art and poetics of materials of Peter Zumthor's architecture is once again manifested in the Bruder Klaus field chapel.
Solitary refinement"Peter Zumthor's fame has spread worldwide, but his latest project couldn't be more humble: a handmade concrete chapel dedicated to a hermit."
The round bed comes full circle"REMEMBER the revolving circular bed from which the Mike Meyers' character Austin Powers proclaimed his shag-ability? Laugh if you must, but the Lazy Susan sleeper — that semaphore of swinging bachelorhood — is no longer a joke to be found solely in Hollywood comedies and special-interest hotel suites."
The Green Wall of ChinaChina has planted a "Green Wall" in Inner Mongolia to hold back the growing Gobi Desert.
Phone a glacier"A unique work of art, unveiled today, invites viewers to phone a glacier in Iceland - and listen to its death throes, live, through a microphone submerged deep in the bitterly cold lagoon."
OSB against graniteA temporary information point-cum-lecture hall designed by Jonathan Woolf in unpainted oriented strand board for Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival.