Rotating Eco-Home
Inventor Robin Hamilton has designed a three-storey house on wheels that can revolve to follow the sun during the day. He said the rotation was not a gimmick and would help create more energy than the 700-tonne home will use.
via BBC — Green

Cumulus
Designer Steven Haulenbeek has designed a scalable lighting series using photographer’s translucent shoot-through umbrellas. Nicely done.
via design*sponge — Lighting

Interview: Tadao Ando
The self-taught architect talks about his work, the environment, etc., but don't ask him about his Pritzker... "I prefer not to talk about the Prize."
via CNN — Architecture

Underground Eco House
Crawford Partnership goes underground to design homes in London which meet local design and sustainable building standards.
via Inhabitat — Architecture

Koolhaas and His Omnipotent Masters
"According to Rem Koolhaas, there are three seminal events in the history of architecture: Samson tearing down the house of the Philistines in 1100 BC, the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 AD, and his design in 2006 AD of the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing."
via Design Observer — Architecture

Architectural idealist - Joseph Allen Stein
Profile of Bay Area Modernist Joseph Allen Stein, including quotes from friend and collaborator, Landscape Architect, Robert Royston (see L+L 8/5/2004) who still lives in the house Stein designed for him 61 years ago.
via SF Gate — Architecture

World's Top 100 Most Livable Cities
Ah, another list... it's been a while since we Clipped one. A global ranking of the world's most livable cities based on 39 key quality-of-life issues. The list actually is 215 long... bottom of the list? Baghdad. The first US city shows up at 27. [slideshow]
via Business Week — Urban

Context Matters
What happens when a world-famous violinist sets up shop in a crowded plaza during the morning rush-hour? Surprisingly, not very much.
via Washington Post — Music

Ahhh-nold - The Green Giant
"California's Hummer-loving governor is turning the Golden State into the greenest in the land, a place where environmentalism and hedonism can coexist. How a star turned pol's become the muscle behind saving the planet."
via Newsweek — Green

Interview: Will Alsop
"The most dangerous thing for architecture is to have a theory, because then it's all the same."
via Guardian — Architecture

Landscape Architect Profiles
In honor of Landscape Architecture Month, Planetizen presents three profiles of professional landscape architects Dennis Carmichael, FASLA, Melissa Marie Evans, ASLA, and Steve Martino, FASLA. Learn what influenced them to enter the field, what work they have been doing, and what advice they have to offer others interested in landscape architecture.
via Planetizen — Landscape

For many, artwork is not a bright spot
"San Pedro's robotic eye-on-a-pole, watching passersby down below, is getting a mostly cool reception. Just wait until it shines a light on folks."
via LA Times — Art

Kew branches out with £3m treetop walk
The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew have commissioned Marks Barfield Architects to build a spiral walkway which will snake through the treetops of chestnuts planted by 'Capability' Brown in the 18th century.
via Times — Architecture

Fluted Cardboard Funiture
British designer Giles Miller creates pieces from recycled cardboard, and uses the internal corragations of the material to create patterns.
via Inhabitat — Furniture

Instant Urbansim
Citified suburbs -- "a new form of the American Dream -- a new type of landscape where the lines between city and suburb blur in ever more complex ways." [images/video]
via SF Gate — Urban

The avant gardeners
Lucy Siegle meets five forward-thinking gardeners breaking new ground -- Richard Reynolds (guerrilla gardener), Nick Clooney (hydroponic grower), Tony Kirkham (arboriculturist), Margaret Ramsay (micropropagator), Pippa Johns (permaculturalist), and Bernard Jarman (biodynamic expert).
via Guardian — Landscape

Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78
"Mr. LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant movements of the postwar era." "Mr. LeWitt gently reminded everybody that architects are called artists — good architects, anyway — even though they don’t lay their own bricks, just as composers write music that other people play but are still musical artists. Mr. LeWitt, by his methods, permitted other people to participate in the creative process, to become artists themselves."
via NY Times — Art

Rammed Earth Wonder
The Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre by Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects.
via Treehugger — Architecture

Poo poo power
L.A. to turn sludge from treated wastewater into energy
via LA Times — Green

Back To The Future: The 1970 Los Angeles 'Centers' Concept Plan
"Many say Los Angeles is a city that grew without any rational planning. In reality the planning was there -- but much of the best planning never quite materialized. A perfect example is the 1970 Concept Los Angeles plan -- a vision of what the city could have looked like and now a history lesson for planners. For the first time, it is available in digital format for free download on Planetizen."
via Planetizen — Urban

All Green, All the Time
A cable channel devoted to the "Green" movement is gearing up to be launched by the parent company of the Discovery Channel.
via NY Times — Green

Fictional Home Blue Prints
A series of floor plan drawings by artist Mark Bennett depicting the layouts of homes of characters including Dr. Frazier Crane, George Jetson, Luke Skywalker, etc.
via Mirage.Studio.7 — Art

Dos Lagos Pedestrian Promenade
A very nicely designed walkway in Corona, California (of all places) designed by Nardi Associates. Nardi has designed several pieces of the Dos Lagos project, including the ‘Heart’ & Public Areas including the man-made lakes, amphitheater, park, garden armature, and the Promenade which connects the whole thing together.
via Apartment Therapy — Architecture

Thin end of the wedge
A killer modern home in west London wedged between a Victorian terrace house and pub. [images]
via Building Design — Architecture

No-Chlorine Swimming Pools
Self-cleaning pools that combine swimming areas and water gardens. Awesome.
via NY Times — Outdoor

Building Houses out of Garbage, Not Concrete
Dr. Jim Forth of Leeds University has developed the Bitublock, a sustainable low energy replacement for concrete blocks.
via Treehugger — Materials

Podcast: Charles Jenks
"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we are all modernists now."
via Building Design — Architecture

Green and Greener
"By some conservative estimates, the building sector world-wide could deliver emission reductions of 1.8 billion tonnes of C02."
via WorldChanging — Architecture

Landscape Architecture: Imagine That
"Rodney Swink, past president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, celebrates the role of landscape architecture in shaping the built and natural environment."
via Planetizen — Landscape

A Prize for Mr. Rogers
Witold Rybczynski asks, "Why was the architect's Pritzker so long in coming?"
via Slate — Architecture