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• Study Tour

  For the next two weeks I will be traveling with the 4th year undergraduate students from the Caribbean School of Architecture on their Study Tour of Bridgetown... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards : Training Centre

  

  A proposal for a training center specializing in sustainable construction to be located in Marrakesh, Morocco by German Architect Anna Heringer in... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust : 30th January 2012

  

  Making More Livable Cities With Shade Stands, Rainwater Collection, And Closed Streets | Damien Hirst (1965–2012): In Memoriam | [film] Firstsite by Rafael... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Great Spaces - Season 1 Ep.4: Going Gaga with SANAA

  Episode four of Great Spaces features the New Museum, founded as the New Museum of Contemporary Art designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), is... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 131: El Secreto

  

  El Secreto is a small housing estate amongst a grove of local timbers where Mexican architects GLR has designed 3 modern residences with distinct, yet harmoniou... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Interiors : Saatch & Saatchi

  

  photographs (c)Wison TungthunyaNew offices for Saatch Saatchi in Bangkok, Thailand designed by Supermachine Studio. The fun interior features super graphics... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• New Work ::: Campus Centre for Molloy College

  

  The 57,000 ft2 campus center and associated programme for a main quadrangle at Molloy College designed by BRB architects. Accommodation includes a 550-seat... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust : 23rd January 2012

  

  Our experience and sensibilities can evolve through reflective and silent analysis. To open ourselves to perception we must transcend the mundane urgency of... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Book: Contemporary Caribbean Architecture

  

  Architects are invited to submit entries to be considered for publication in a book entitled, Contemporary Caribbean Architecture. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards : Tidemill Primary School

  

  The Tidemill Primary School in Lewisham, London by Pollard Thomas Edwards architects combines and shares resources with the wider community. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 130: Solid & Voids

  

  This is a modern three story Residence in Filothei, Athens, by Gem Architects. The carved volume of the house creates covered terraces and shades to the windows... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• New Work ::: LAM Cafe

  

  photographs (c)Hiroyukioki OKILAM Café is a 350m2 eatery in NhaTrang, Vietnam designed by a21 studio that derives its name from the local word for ‘louvers’... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Interiors : Spiegel Cafeteria

  

  photos by Zooey Braun Identity Architects Ippolito Fleitz Group have created a canteen for German magazine “Der Spiegel.” Located on the ground floor of the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 16th January 2012

  

  Supply and demand regulate architectural form Adolf Loos Local architects are incapacitated | Modern dollhouse furniture | Architecture: Reading between the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 129 : Travertine Dream House

  

  Envisioned by Wallflower Architecture + Design the Travertine Dream House is located in Tai Yuan Heights in Serangoon, Singapore. The house is organized as two... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust : 9th January 2012

  

  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes Marcel Proust Make things with your hands | Top 10: World's most... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Le CORBUSIER - Villa La ROCHE

  La Maison La Roche-Jeanneret is a dual house built by Le Corbusier in 1924 and are currently the home of the Le Corbusier Foundation. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• SNF Cultural Centre in Athens by Renzo Piano

  SNF Cultural Center in Athens by Renzo Piano from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.Film presenting the future Stavros Niarchos Foundation cultural center, in Athens,... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 128: 25th Street Residence

  

  The 25th street residence is a 260m2 home in Santa Monica, California by architects Shimizu + Coggeshall. The modern addition was meant to simultaneously... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• RIP - Ricardo Legoretta

  

  1931 - 2011, acclaimed Mexican architect Ricardo Legoretta was highly regarded for the fusion of modernism and tradition. A noted pupil of famed architect Luis... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2011 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE