Miscellaneous
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 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 »
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 »
Northumberland's glorious new timber observatory fits beautifully into its forest surroundings. Jonathan Glancey took along his telescope. Read »
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 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 »
 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 »
 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 »
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 »
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 »
 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 »
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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 »
 (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 »
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 »
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 »
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
 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 »
 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 »
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 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 »
 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 »
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 »
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 »
Architecture and design out of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Read »
Architectural Works
 Lightwell House is a recently completed residence in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Tokyo-based Kimizuka Architects. Read »
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