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• New Work ::: Green Dot Public School

  

  Brooks + Scarpa have recently completed a school for 500 students in Inglewood, Los Angeles. The block wide site is located in a poverty stricken community of... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Sliced Porosity Block - Part 2

  Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Spirit of Space has created two short films on the Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Sliced Porosity Block - Part 1

  Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Spirit of Space has created two short films on the Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Tianjin Eco-City Ecology & Planning Museums

  

  Tianjin Eco-City Ecology Planning Museums designed by Steven Holl Architects. The 60,000m2 museums were conceived to be complementary buildings, both in... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 4th March 2013

  

  [His] death filled me with an immense joy. [...] Le corbusier was a pitiable creature working in reinforced concrete.Salvador Dalí(c)freestylee Renaissance... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Design Lives -- Michael Green, MGB Architecture

  from Design Lives on Vimeo.Nancy Bendtsen, design observer and commentator, interviewed architect Michael Green about his work, “green architecture”, and his... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Skyscraper 2050

  

  ARUP's research and development division, Foresight have proposed what the skyscraper in 2050 would look like for a city of 9 billion. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 25th February 2013

  

  The work of design is not to skin stuff. It’s not to put a nice dumb box around whatever is inside. It’s the whole conception. Design should deliver the whole... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Interiors : Urca Penthouse

  

  images © Matthieu Salvaing The 700m2 penthouse designed by architect Arthur Casas is located in Urca, a wealthy neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 162: Maracanã House

  

  The Maracanã House in São Paulo, Brazil was designed by Danilo Earth of Brazilian practice Earth and Tuma Arquitectos Asociados. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 18th February 2013

  

  Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication Leonardo da Vinci (c)Bilyana Dimitrova David Benjamin and the future of architecture | Evil Twins and... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Luxury Apartments

  

  A deluxe private residential development in Barbados by London based architectural practice MAKE. The proposed development was inspired by sea shells,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, BOOKS, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Kunsthalle Mannheim

  

  German practice gmp architects (von Gerkan, Marg and Partners) have won a closed competition to design the new Kunsthalle Mannheim. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, BOOKS, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Baimbridge Lycée Général Et Technologique

  

  Architects Pile et Face have proposed a renovation to the Baimbridge Lycée Général et Technologique (general high and techology college) located in Les Abymes,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 11th February 2013

  

  Architecture is a discipline that speaks to all your senses. Pierre de MeuronNational Register of Historic Places Recognizes Two Post-War Parks | 180-Foot Tall... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Making Room

  Introducing Making Room: a research, design and advocacy project to shape New York’s housing stock to address the changing needs of how we live now. Find out... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Xcalacoco

  

  Xcalacoco, designed by Mexican practice Hierve, is a proposed apartment complex located on a long heavily landscaped site infront of the Caribbean sea . Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 04 February 2013

  

  The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of the cheapest price is forgotten.Anonymousimage source The "Ultima" Tower, Two-mile... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Eleven Eleven

  Miami Beach is legendary for many things – and a parking garage is now on that list. It's known as Eleven Eleven, and it has changed people’s perception about... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 161: Casa Rosenda

  

  previous Tejaban made from disused roof materials image sources The house in Guadalupe, Mexico was rebuilt through 10x10 a social service programme, which... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE