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• On the Boards : Sustainable Krajicek Playgrounds

  

  The proposed scheme designed by BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design) received the second prize for the Richard Krajicek Foundation Playground... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• RIP Oscar Niemeyer

  

  © Frank Camhi It is with the deepest and sincerest regrets to inform my readers of the passing of noted Latin Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer 1907 - 2012. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 158: Arbour House

  

  The Arbour House, is designed by Richard Kirk Architects and sits among a grove of fig trees along the Brisbane River, Australia. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 3rd December 2012

  

  Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human Luis Barragan Architects smashing up their models | Rock Overhangs Integrated in Local... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Click Competition

  

  The International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress is hosting their 2nd international photography contest. The themes for submissions are:... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 26th November 2012

  

  Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to eart... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake

  The Metabolist Movement in the 1960s established the foundation for contemporary Japanese architecture. The visionary architectural and urban projects created b... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Blog Wunderlust: 19th November 2012

  

  I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. Tadao Ando Creatively defaced album art City of paper urbanism: how Mumbai can... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• The Modern Family: Part 1

  For Part One of the two-part series "The Modern Family" the Yee family presents their bucolic home in Carmel, California, designed by Lake|Flato Architects. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Gwell

  

  JDS were commissioned to design a 38,000 m2 10 story building with a hybrid programme consisting of retail, offices and small apartment. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 156: Ravine Guest House

  

  This poolhouse and guest cottage in Toronto, Canada designed by architects Shim-Sutcliffe sits adjacent a ravine and amongst a lush landscape . Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Installation ::: Portal of Awareness

  

  Architect Michel Rojkind was commissioned by Nescafé to produce a public art campaign in Mexico City called Despierta a la Vida, translated as Awaken to Life fo... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Ozmik House

  Nomination - SAIA Awards for sustainable Architecture from The Kinetic on Vimeo. OZMIK HOUSE Nomination - SAIA Awards for sustainable Architecture Intro and... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Interiors : Thuys (Home)

  

  images (c) Jorn van Eck The Amsterdam based design studio Overtreders W have renovated and redesigned a cafe restaurant in a museum of psychiatry, Het Dolhuys. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Blog Wunderlust: 5th November 2012

  

  Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• Embracing Modernity: The Transformation of Jamaica's Architecture After 1962

  

  Ministry of Education Building, architect Wilson Chong image (c) David Cuthbert Architectural Historian and Senior Lecturer at the Caribbean School of... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: South Quarter Housing

  

  Designed by Seattle based practice Mithun architects, the multi-family South Quarter development in Minneapolis. The affordable housing scheme proposes... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• On the Boards: Grace Farms Foundation

  

  The proposed headquarters for the nonprofit Grace Farms Foundation by architects SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) and landscape architects OLIN to be... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• House of the Week 155: Balmain House

  

  images (c)Patrick Bingham-Hall This was a substantial addition and alteration to a single-level timber cottage in inner Sydney, Australia designed by architect... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE

• RIP - Lebbeus Woods

  

  Lebbeus Woods, conceptual architect, artist, theoretician and active blogger, died in New York at the age of 72. A pupil of Eero Saarinen in the 1960s, he is... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE