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noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:30:00 +0000

Every day at 6 p.m., their desks, tables and other work surfaces, with their computers attached, are hauled up to the ceiling by steel cables

Amsterdam design studio Heldergroen by Zecc Architects via

ARCKIT

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:24:00 +0000

ARCKIT® is a freeform model building tool that allows architects and everyone to physically explore designs and bring their projects to life. The interconnecting components use no glue and are completely modular, making it possible to create a diverse range of scaled structures that can be used as working models to communicate ideas to clients and to showcase finished projects.

blog wunderlust: 251th August 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:30:00 +0000

The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building.

Louis Kahn

Could Lego Architecture Studio actually be useful for architects? | The ‘Starchitect’ Image | Rebel Architecture: The creator's view | Big Read: A feast of art, food  and architecture in Rodez | Paper Palaces | Clay robotics: the future of architecture is happening now in a Chilterns farm | Guerrilla architect | 20th Century architecture: Is it the end of our 'concrete jungles'? | Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi

last word: Stop Order Placed On St Lucia Towers

blog wunderlust: 4th August 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:28:00 +0000

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

Frend Kent

George Lucas announces architects for lakefront museum | Are the ‘Star’ Architects Ruining Cities? | Medellín made urban escalators famous, but have they had any impact? | David Adjaye interview: 'I'm not always looking at the usual references' | David Adjaye designs a new boutique for Couturiere Roksanda Ilincic | Never Too Young; 15 Librarian-Recommended Architecture Books for Young Children |

last word: Build communities, not just home units

Cristobal Palma

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:03:00 +0000

Acclaimed photographer cristobal palma, of santiago-based estudio palma, has produced a film which documents a great number of the buildings he has captured over the past four years. the movie, entitled ‘cristobal palma: architecture film work 2010-2014′ compiles palma’s short architectural videos, offering the viewer a deeper understanding of the various works.

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Breath Box

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:44:00 +0000

A installation for the 2014 Festival of Lively Architecture entitled "BREATH BOX" designed by NAS Architecture which consists of a reflecting façade that reacts to wind, distorting the reflection of the sea.

blog wunderlust: 28th July 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:26:00 +0000

Architecture isn't a job persae, it is more of a lifestyle. We never really stop [doing] architecture no matter what we are doing.

Lance Herbst

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Modern in Lexington, Kentucky | The tale of one woman's radically simplified 'built-it-myself' life | Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed for First and Mission (San Francisco) | Tour the Concrete Home of Reclusive Architect Peter Zumthor | So much architecture is monstrous – that’s why we like to see it demolished | The Problem With Minimalism | How a New Dutch Library Smashed Attendance Records

last word: End comes for notorious Venezuelan vertical slum

blog wunderlust: 14th July 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:58:00 +0000

There's a lineage of carpentry and masonry, building with high skill and great efficiency that's specific to India, and I am transferring that ideology to projects around the world.

Bijoy Jain

Why the Millennial Architect Won’t Be Your CAD Monkey | How Chinese Urbanism Is Transforming African Cities | Inside the Iconic World Cup Finals Stadium | Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design | Is maverick master builder Bjarke Ingels the world's smartest architect - or just the craziest? | Slovak architect turns billboards into homes for the homeless | Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’

last word: Villanueva 114 years

blog wunderlust: 7th July 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:30:00 +0000

Architecture must seduce.

Alberto Perez - Gomez

(c)architect André Chiote

London's Garden bridge: 'It feels like we're trying to pull off a crime' | Six Characterisitcs of Cohousing | David Adjaye-Designed Sugar Hill Affordable Housing Development Nears Completion in Harlem | Green Roofs: An Introduction with Pretty Pictures | conceptions of space: MoMA NYC's recent acquisitions in architecture | The Rise And Fall Of London Pop-Up Architecture | World Cup Posters Celebrate Stadium Architecture

last word: Evelyn Mitchell Infant School cops top architectural award

blog wunderlust: 30th June 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 02:40:00 +0000

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

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Drink in the World's Architecture in Milky Coffee Swirls | How Technology Is Changing The Architecture Profession More Than Ever Before | The Invisible Architect Of Invisible Architecture | 10 Architectural Features That Should Be Taken Out Of Rotation | 15 Reasons to date an Architecture Teacher | Beyond the World Cup stadiums, architecture in Brazil returns to glory and Brasilia's Dramatic Architecture Draws World Cup Tourists

last word: Jamaican Architecture - The People's Views and UDC acquiring, refurbishing derelict buildings downtown Kingston

Cathedrals of Culture - Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:26:00 +0000

Produced and Directed by Robert Redford and Wim Wenders

Do the Architect

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:19:00 +0000

blog wunderlust: 23rd June 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:30:00 +0000

We see architecture as the direct result of the way of life.

Peter and Alison Smithson

Archimusic: If Songs Were To Look Like Buildings | Constructing identities: Contributions from Iran, Morocco, and the UAE | When it comes to housing, small is the new big | Modern ~~soccer~~ football wouldn't be the same without an architect's invention | Newsmaker: Marc Norman | 22 Questions for Stanley Tigerman | This is not actually an abandoned building with overgrown plants | Why architects love Surface Pro

last word: Taylors Win Architecture Award

blog wunderlust: 9th June 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:00:00 +0000

It is in hard times especially, that good architecture is made.

Christopher Whyms-Stone [Cornerstone.Design Ltd]

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Are Ivy League Schools Really Offering the Best Architectural Education? | 25 Architects You Should Follow on Twitter | A new blueprint for architectural excellence | Berlin Plans 'House Of One,' A Place Where Jews, Muslims, And Christians Will Pray Under The Same Roof | Life in the suburbs: the good, the bad and the ugly | How to make a tool set | Miami's new vice – an addiction to star architects |

last word: “LEEDing” The Pack: acla:works Deepens Commitment to Green Building, Design and Construction

blog wunderlust: 2nd June 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 19:38:00 +0000

I think my designs are quite contemporary, but I like to use older forms. I would describe my style as modern, which learns from the vernacular; it applies local building materials while reflecting indigenous culture, offering solutions to environmental issues and accounting for modern technology.

Ann Hodges (Kingston 10 Architects)

This Abandoned Wasteland Was Once America's Largest Mall | Playful Work Environments | Finding Space for the Living at a Memorial | Renewed Hope For Black Architects | Bauhaus Beauties | Remixing Famous Architecture in Animated GIFs | Focus of architecture is people | klopf architecture remodels double gable eichler home in california | Man who compiled the 'bible' on architecture

last word: Fire razes [Historic] commercial building in Falmouth

TED talks: Iwan Baan

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 May 2014 21:00:00 +0000

Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places

blog wunderlust: 26th May 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:01:00 +0000

Architecture is a contaminated art.

Renzo Piano

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Ettore Sottsass: the godfather of Italian cool | At First It Looks Like An Old Empty Factory. But Go Inside And... WHOA | Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art devastated in fire: "I think we've lost it" | Cutting the Housing-Car Umbilical Cord | Farnsworth House Could Soon Get a Lift | A Manifesto For Icons and Architecture Infatuated By Form | Libyan Board of Architecture wants to redefine architecture in Libya |

last word: Holness Fortress!

Folie Richter Montpellier by MVRDV for ADIM

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 May 2014 03:55:00 +0000

blog wunderlust: 19th May 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:30:00 +0000

Modernism is often less about aesthetic impression and more about lifestyle, efficiency of living, sustainability

Leo Marmel

Theaster Gates Gets $3.5M Grant to Push Solar Decathlon -- Innovation in Home Design | This City Aims to Be “Car Free” in 20 Years | Older, Smaller, Better: Why new ideas need old buildings | Creatives, now you can swap homes with other creative types | Trash, waste and household items turned into houses for the homeless | BIG BIM for the conceptual architect

last word: 10 essential habits for successful architects

Jockey Club Innovation Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 May 2014 03:33:00 +0000

Jockey Club Innovation Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects from ArchDaily on Vimeo.

Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

blog wunderlust: 12th May 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 May 2014 14:00:00 +0000

By tattooing walls, graffiti writers free them architecture and turn them once again into living, social matter, into the moving body of the city before it has been banned with functions and institutions.

Jean Baudrillard "Kool Killer, or the Insurrection of Signs"

When Architects Build Brands: Is Architecture’s Future in Advertising? | Meet the Dynamic Duo Behind Architecture Firm Fuksas | Why Architects should Blog | The Green Building Reality: Why Two-Thirds of the Profession Are Cowards | One of America's Most Famous Architects Was a Nazi Propagandist | A beautiful mobile home for just $33,000? | A degree in architecture … but all I can get are menial jobs

last word: 2014 - End of Year Exhibition at the Caribbean School of Architecture

blog wunderlust: Cinco de Mayo 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 May 2014 14:00:00 +0000

We were coming out the war the space race was on. People thought science and progress could solve all society’s problems, architecture was there to improve peoples’ lives and things could only get better.

Ivor Smith

An art collective is painting an entire mexican town in bright and beautiful colour | Why live in buildings when you can live in between them? | Is Liz Diller Even Convinced That Razing The Folk Art Museum Is The Right Move? | What It’s Like To Be A Walmart Architect | Architect Hans Hollein's fascination with California and the U.S. | Architect puts his stamp on award-winning home |

last word: Ivor Smith, Park Hill and Optimism

emergency shelter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 02 May 2014 22:20:00 +0000

LAU architecture students assemble emergency shelter with plastic crates + ties

blog wunderlust: 28th April 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:00:00 +0000

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the make-up of a person is influenced by the nature of the spaces

David Adjaye

My space: Steve Bowkett, architect | Is This House Too Modern to Exist? | Daily Overview: Captivating Satellite Images of Earth | Building the Picture: Architecture in Painting review – a show to change the way you look at art | Does Italy Have Way Too Many Architects? | Why You Must Consult an Architect When Putting Up Your House | Spanish court orders architect Santiago Calatrava to pay $4 million over city hall faults |

last words: Bogota- an urbanist's guide to the city