Yesterday's articles (19/08/2008):

Miscellaneous
from BUILD blog
The Modern List: Stockholm
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Barangaroo Tomason (超芸術トマソン)
Greg Allen posted about the concept of '... Read »
roadside distractions
A solo exhibition of recent mixed media pieces titled Roadside Distractions by Eric Engstrom will run from August 22nd through September 21st 2008 at ArtBrokers Gallery. Featuring new views from [...] Read »
from Archinect
Lured by state subsidies and buoyed by high oil prices, the wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, promising to bring jobs, tax revenue and cutting-edge energy to the long-struggling [...] Read »
from Archinect
The Reality (Show) of "Architecture Schools"
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from Archinect
Northumberland's glorious new timber observatory fits beautifully into its forest surroundings. Jonathan Glancey took along his telescope. Read »
from Curbed
Construction Watch: 11 Times Square Gets Some Glass
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. It seems like yesterday that we reported steel had started to rise on SJP Properties' 40-story 11 Times Square. Now, a mere four months later, [...] Read »
Architecture Schools
The Sundance Channel will be hosting a documentary plainly dubbed Architecture Schools a mini-series following the design-build programme at Tulane University. The project, to build a sustainable, [...] Read »
Do You Remember the '68 Democratic Convention?  The CHM is looking for you.
And, no, I don't mean from watching it on TV. For those you who are not so good on history, the 68 Convention was one of the most dramatic events Chicago has ever seen, sparking violent confrontations [...] Read »
from Archinect
The video podcast of the Architectural League's Franzen Lecture on Architecture and Environment by Shigeru Ban is now online . ( Shigeru Ban Architects are hiring ) Read »
from Archinect
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News
Temple University’s Tyler School of Art will abandon its beloved but rundown campus in Philadelphia’s Elkins Park in January, moving instead to a sleek, new $75-million building on the university’s [...] Read »
from Luxist
Chandler Mansion, Estate of the Day
Filed under: Estates I mentioned this one back in 2006 but it deserves another look with some new pictures. There's a reason it's been on the market for a long time, it appeals to a very particular [...] Read »
Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected, Landscape Views 3 Rossana Vaccarino Princeton Architectural Press (2000) Rating: 4 stars Roberto Burle Marx is the questionably the most seminal figure [...] Read »
from Pruned
Operation Beachhead
(Are these the beaches of Normandy or the beaches of Happisburgh?) Lord Smith of Finsbury, the new head of the UK's Environment Agency, talked to The Independent about a wide range of issues, [...] Read »
from Archinect
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea , a large-scale work by an artist known as Swoon , is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up [...] Read »
from Archinect
125 years after construction on this giant masterpiece in Barcelona began, an influential group of Spanish artists, architects and art gallery directors are increasingly concerned the result [...] Read »
from Archinect
Arthur Erickson has been called Canada's most famous architect and the first to put Canadian architecture on the world map. But he is no longer allowed to call himself an architect, according [...] Read »
Technology
from Inhabit
M2E Charges Your Cell Phone With Kinetic Energy!
Earlier this year we highlighted Idaho startup M2E Power’s push to develop motion-powered electronics for the military. Now M2E is emphasizing the commercial applications for their technology, [...] Read »
from MoCo Loco
Milk Gone Bad
The Milk Gone Bad table lamp by AnAtomic Factory with illustrations by Bombo is a follow-up to the earlier Long Life Light . When the Milk Gone Bad light is off, it resembles a simple white milk [...] Read »
Form Follows Fascists
I know the looks like a which can symbolize rebirth (the egg), freedom (flight) and a place to nurture new "movements." But I've been trying to figure out what the Beijing "Bird's Nest" stadium [...] Read »
from eye candy
Lost Rock
developer candy... another quality, bonus, eye candy! Lost Rock is a new housing community / lake cabin development in the Ozarks (Beaver Lake, Arkansas) Marlon Blackwell , buildingstudio and [...] Read »
from Archinect
As more and more people move from rural to urban aggregations, an increasing percentage of urban water is being used by the informal agricultural sector. A recent IWMI study tried to identify [...] Read »
from Archinect
His groundbreaking book A Pattern Language urged architects consider emotional and spiritual ideas when designing. It was the beginning of an elaborate, nuts-and-bolts philosophical system. Alexander [...] Read »
from Archinect
Architecture and design out of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Read »
Architectural Works
from archdaily
Joanopolis House / UNA Arquitetos
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from archdaily
XBO Mobile Structure / 70ºN Arkitektur
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from dezeen
Lightwell House by Kimizuka Architects
Lightwell House is a recently completed residence in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Tokyo-based Kimizuka Architects. Read »