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• Work | Life Balance

  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... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Arckit

  ® is a freeform model building tool that allows architects and everyone to physically explore designs and bring their projects to life. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 251th August 2014

  

  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? Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 4th August 2014

  

  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. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Cristobal Palma

  Acclaimed photographer cristobal palma, of santiago-based estudio palma, has produced a film which documents a great number of the buildings he has captured ove... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 28th July 2014

  

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

  Posted on 28 July 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 14th July 2014

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 7th July 2014

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 30th June 2014

  

  Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos [image source] Drink in the... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 23rd June 2014

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 9th June 2014

  

  It is in hard times especially, that good architecture is made. Christopher Whyms-Stone [Cornerstone.Design Ltd] [image source] Are Ivy League Schools Really... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 2nd June 2014

  

  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 loca... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 26th May 2014

  

  Architecture is a contaminated art. Renzo Piano image source Ettore Sottsass: the godfather of Italian cool | At First It Looks Like An Old Empty Factory. But G... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 19th May 2014

  

  Modernism is often less about aesthetic impression and more about lifestyle, efficiency of living, sustainability Leo Marmel Theaster Gates Gets $3.5M... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 12th May 2014

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: Cinco De Mayo 2014

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 28th April 2014

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 22nd April 2014

  

  An architect should be a chameleon Mose Safdie Adopt an architect | The Most Outrageous Pink Facades | Architect client: Maggie’s by Rogers Stirk Harbour +... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• How Public Spaces Make Cities Work

  More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocke... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 7th April 2014

  

  Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE