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Interview: Edouard FrançoisWe featured the Flower Tower by wild and crazy French architect, urbanist and landscape designer (and scientist?) Edouard François a couple years back. Designboom interviews the madman.
oxygen clothespinHave you ever found yourself wishing you didn't go to that bar as your clothes now seem to have been 'bathed' into cigarette smoke? A solution might be at hand.
Sculptural birdfeedersSt. Louis artist Joe Papendick creates birdfeeders from mild steel, stainless steel and copper. His freestanding garden designs are both sculptural and architectural.
(Architecture) Holiday In Cambodia"Khmer Architecture Tours aims to promote modern architecture in Cambodia by arranging tours of buildings which date from the period following Independence in 1953."
Donnybrook QuarterFor a housing estate in East London, architect Peter Barber melds modern architecture with traditional, human scale urban form. "We're not designing a housing scheme, we're designing a piece of the city".
These Houses Can Take a Lickin'"Katrina smashed to bits thousands of homes that had the bad luck of being in its path. But architects and designers are creating housing that could survive the next devastating disaster."
Have faith in your architect'The essential relationship with the client is based on trust. To work well, the ideal relationship begins "when a client gives us the brief, not the solution".'
Could Manchester finally turn into a city for family living?In the last 10 years of regeneration projects in Manchester developers have aimed new residential schemes at young professionals; by the time we all reach 35 we flee the city. Could there be a change in a near future?
Switch Grass: Alternative Energy Source?Bush said Switch Grass, what? "David Bransby, professor of energy crops at Auburn University, says switch grass is cheap to grow and provides a high yield crop that can make a lot of ethanol for a low cost."
Los Angeles Apartment NumbersThis photograpahic series documents the ubiquitous los angeles apartment building and their often ornate address markings.
CoreToughLighter than aluminum and stronger than steel, CoreTough is a honeycombed truss-wing-formed composite wall sandwiched between a seamless, one-piece, thick outer facing and a thinner inner facing with no rivets required.
Is the prefab revolution on hold?"They've been heralded as the future of building and the solution to housing shortages, yet prefabs have failed to take off."
Call for papers - Surfacing Urbanisms: Recent Approaches to Metropolitan DesignCall for papers for conference to be held October 12 -15, 2006, Woodbury University, Pasadena, California. Abstracts due: Friday, April 7.
Great Park will test Smith's management skillKen Smith in the O.C. spotlight... details about why he was awarded the Great Park project in Orange County California, as well as reservations...
Happy World Wetlands Day"Today is World Wetlands Day, which marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands, or the Ramsar Convention, in Ramsar, Iran on 2 February 1971." Pruned has the scoop.
Slopeside at the Olympics, Designing With Frozen FingersArchitects and artists paired up to design six projects for the "Snow Show" for the Turino Winter Olympics.
Whose house is it anyway?"Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have broken into a house he'd designed to rearrange the furniture; Mies van der Rohe fought with a client who wanted a wardrobe. Emma Cullinan on what happens when an architect-designed house becomes a home."
The Power of Modernist ThinkingThe story of a modern home in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi which survived Hurricane Katrina while the neighborhood around it was destroyed.
Lean and Green - Kresge Foundation HeadquartersChicago's Valerio DeWalt Train has designed a 17,000 square foot addition to the headquarters of the Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan. The building is designed to achieve a LEED platinum rating.
Modernism: the idea that just won't go away"Just 50 years after modernism first emerged as the style to end all styles, the design philosophy that tried to abolish history and reduced every shape to its supposedly timeless geometric elements was itself declared dead."
Modern prefab: An interview with Lloyd Alter of Royal Homes Ltd.Lloyd Alter is an architect who works with Wingham, Ontario based Royal Homes Ltd., a company which manufactures Michelle Kaufmann's Glidehouse as well as it's own modern "Q Series" designed by Kohn Shnier Architects and Mr. Alter himself.
Charts, diagrams, information graphics by Karl HartigI like info graphics. The map of the London Underground, signage from the '84 Summer Olympic Games (and other Olympics for that matter), etc. Karl Hartig's designs are now on my list too.
The High Line: it's gonna happenThe Gothamist says (and other news sources report) that construction on the High Line is going to begin in two weeks. Get there quick to check it out before, and keep eyes peeled for developments (and let us know about 'em... that new Soapbox thing).
Architecture education in Australia: If it ain't broke, why fix it?"Mixing academic study with real work has produced world-class Australian architects. Now, the University of Technology, Sydney is rewriting that winning formula."
What If Sprawl Is The Real Entropy?More from Greg Allen about cleanup and restoration work at the Spiral Jetty, and thoughts about Smithson's ideas of "Entropy And The New Monuments."
Cleanup Crew: 1, Entropy: 0 At The Spiral JettyGreg Allen writes a pair of posts about cleanup work around the site of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah. Who's ready for the cappuccino-and-smoothie cart during the peak Jetty months? Anyone? ;-)
I.D. FortyTis the season for lists... another one this morning: this year's list of design's 40 biggest influencers according to I.D.
Emeco's Icon Chair by Philipe StarckStarck turns out another one... and I dig it. Stackable, classic Emeco aluminum finish, and not too pricey (considering). The chair will be unveiled in April at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (props to AT for the scoop).
21 Most Influential"Who are the people who are changing the contemporary design landscape?" You'll have to read to find out, but Blogs are listed at number 9 on the list... though Icon doesn't give L+L any love in this or their blog article, we'll take credit anyway.
"Environmental Activism's Missed Opportunity"Matthew Smith writes about the battle for sustainability, and the flak many large corporations receive for their sustainability efforts.