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King ResidenceGallery of photos from the King Residence in Santa Monica, CA (John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects).
GeometricA unique pattern resource book featuring an exciting collection of 264 colourful and monochrome pattern illustrations. The Geometric book comes with a CD containing 100 pattern fonts – the most extensive pattern font collection available from any foundry.
Interview: Mario SchjetnanMario Schjetnan, FASLA, spoke with ASLA about his work on the Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, his own garden in Malinalco, and environmental justice in Mexico City.
Bypass UrbanismA thesis project by Rice University student Viktor Ramos "takes a formal approach to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by studying mechanisms of control within the West Bank." The Oslo Accords extrapolated into architectural form.
Marvin Rand dies at 84A photographer whose images captured more than five decades of Los Angeles' architectural history, including landmark works by Irving Gill, Charles and Henry Greene and Watts Towers creator Simon Rodia, died Saturday. Sad news. The images in my memory of many Southern Californian buildings are actually photos made by Marvin Rand. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years ago; a generous soul, excitedly recounting tales of photographic assignments from decades past.
Open-Ended LearningA survey of outstanding K–12 schools underscores the compelling ways that architects and designers respond to the changing nature of education today.
Bamboo-zled: Eco Veneers Storm the Design World"Green is the new black — and bamboo is the new titanium. After years of churning out glossy, metal-finish, high-polish products, electronics companies are taking their design cues from nature — and trying to pick up the sheen of eco-friendliness — by wrapping their products in bamboo veneers."
A graphic historyA feast for the eyes, just a sliver of which is shown in this post. Follow the link to Miguel Oks Flickr photostream (Flickr user Iliazd) for an avalanche of graphic design goodies.
Talieisn Mod.Fab at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, ArizonaLooking more inspired by De Stijl than by Organic Architecture, the Taliesin Mod.Fab was designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture with the faculty guidance of Michael P. Johnson, and guidance by visiting faculty Jennifer Siegal and Laura McAlpine of the Office of Mobile Design.
Martha, Martha, Martha!Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architect, has really ruffled the feathers of Britons. This article was actually written at the end of January, before her recent comments at Kew.
Jones, Kahn, Paige @ A+D Museum, Los AngelesWes' work was always inspiring to us, and Eric and Gary were our instructors back in the day... Their work will be inaugurating the Architecture and Design Museum's new space for an architectural Valentine. Yes, 3 can be romantic too...
NYU high-rise dorm swallows churchPreservationists, peaved. Students, ready to party in the belfry. God, unavailable for comment.
Architect Lord Foster to lay off 350 workersLord Foster is a part of the world economy afterall. Bummer...
Are the British any good at designing public space?Landscape architect Martha Schwartz says NO! Then Sarah Gaventas is pissed off by Martha's American attitude and throws down saying she is out of touch! Oh, no she didn't!!! Let's get them in the same room and post the cat fight on YouTube... who's with me?
Water LightNo, not to light your water pipe (why would you even think that?)... Donegal County, Ireland is testing water-powered street lights.
CCTV aftermathIf you like destruction without the death (well, unless you subscribe to the whole death of starchitecture thang), here is a whole roasty-toasty photo set to quench your desire for things charred. Boy, the superintendent's gonna be pissed!
Pedreres de s'HostalA masssive quarry turned heritage park on the island of Minorca, Spain. Stunning.
"A Square"Bird's-eye views of small urban landscape amenities by Korean photographer Hosang Park. Fascinating.
Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image"In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama."
SYNTHe: An Urban Rooftop Garden Prototype in Los AngelesA topographic green roof armature by architect Alexis Rochas designed to grow edible plants for building residents and the restaurant on the ground floor. Looks like harvesting some of those beds might be a daredevil act.
VIDEO: Fire rips through Beijing hotel designed by KoolhaasHoly smokes! A real live towering inferno... yikes. The hotel is part of the new China Central Television’s headquarters complex designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA.
Defriending is THE trend for 2009!"It is very easy to end a friendship on the internet. You simply click on ‘remove from friends’ - and you’re done. And according to trend watchers, this defriending will be the trend for 2009." Good thing we are not friends... you can keep us on your list that way.
Architecture advice: 5 cents. Do you get what you pay for?Laid off architect John Morefield charges people 5 cents for design advice at a Farmer's Market in Seattle. Boy am I glad I gave up on that architecture career...