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'Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary' Exhibition
[ May 31, 2012 0:00 to September 30, 2012 0:00. ] As part of a season of events celebrating British design, the V&A presents the first major solo exhibition of the work of one of the most inventive and experimental British design studios practicing today. This exhibition, taking place from...
Optical Store / Simos Vamvakidis
Architect: _Simos Vamvakidis_ Location: _Neo Psyhiko, Athens, Greece_ Completion: _June 20011_ Size:_ 65 sqm_ Photographs:_ Ioanna Roufopoulou and Simos Vamvakidis_ It is a ground floor store with a narrow, three meter façade on the street. There is also...
Pangolin House: Vision for Future House in Thailand / Pitupong Chaowakul, Wattikon Kosolkit and Yupadee Sutvisith
The vision of _Pitupong Chaowakul, Wattikon Kosolkit and Yupadee Sutvisith_ for the future Thai house is an architecture that is composed of different levels of resilient segments. This includes 100% resistance with facility space that allows water to flood...
'Anemone' Installation / Oyler Wu Collaborative
Anemone is an art/architectural installation by _Oyler Wu Collaborative_ aimed at weaving together aesthetic experience and tactile engagement, a combination generally considered off limits within the world of contemporary art. All too often, art installations are considered precious, almost...
AD Classics: Rachofsky House / Richard Meier
The most satisfying part of the Rachofsky House is that it is not a museum. There is no real reason why it shouldn't be, considering the multitude of visitors and school fieldtrips that frequent the 11,000 square-foot, three-story building...
Shou Sugi Ban / BYTR Architects
Architects:_ BYTR Architects_ Location: _Maarn, The Netherlands_ Projectteam: _Tjerk van de Wetering, Richel Lubbers, Dominique Vermeulen_ Client:_ Private_ Completion:_ 2010_ Wooden framework: _Prehocon, Bunnik_ Building costs: _€100.000 excl. BTW_ Photographs: _Ossip van Duivenbode_ The sculptural form of this extension...
Recreating The Hongkong Post / ADO
Architects:_ ADO _ Location: _Hong Kong, China_ Year:_ 2011_ Design Team: _Karr Yip, Wilson Lee, Kit Cheuk, Alison Chiu_ Client:_ Hongkong Post_ Photographs: _Dick Liu_ Established in 1841, Hongkong Post renowned with its long history rooted deeply in our...
Video: Toguchi Lecture / Peter Bohlin
American architect _Peter Bohlin, FAIA_ discusses his life work and design philosophy at the 2011 September AIA Chapter Meeting, held in the Cartwright Auditorium at Kent State University. Bohlin founded Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 1965 and has since gained...
Stinson Beach House / WA Design Inc
Architects: _WA Design Inc_ Location: _Marin, California_, _USA_ Client: _Stacia Cronin and David Stark Wilson_ Size: _1400 square feet_ Design Team: _David Stark Wilson, Frank Eyerly, Eoi Takagi_ Consultants: _Kenneth Hughes (engineering); PCD Engineering (mechanical)___ Photographs:_ Courtesy of WA_...
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LVI
First Flickr Round Up of 2012, and we have some amazing photos from our Flickr Pool, which now has over 67,000 photos! As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don't forget to follow us through...
Parkridge / PLY Architecture
Architects: _PLY Architecture_ Location: _Ann Arbor, MI, USA_ Construction:_ 2009 – 2010_ Square fotage:_ 1100 sf _ Design: _Craig Borum + Karl Daubmann (Principals) Mike Ezban, Marshal Prado, Alex Timmer_ Photographs: _PLY Architecture_ This project redefines the internal organization...
Chinese High-rise constructed in 15 days
We began the week with the destruction of Houston's historic Prudential Building and now end with a time-lapse documenting a 30-story, five-star Chinese hotel constructed in only 15 days. The Chinese construction company, Broad Group, is gaining international attention...
Country House In Tupadly / OV-A
Architects: _OV-A_ Location: _Tupadly, Czech Republic_ Head Architects: _Jiri Opocensky, Stepan Valouch_ Structural Engineering: _Jan Pohl_ Completion: _2008_ Site area: _1,241 sqm_ Built area: _245 sqm_ Total floor area: _336 sqm_ Photographs: _Tomas Soucek_The 170 years...
The Psychology of Home
The psychology behind what we consider or value to be our homes presents some interesting concepts. While it is easy to answer the question "Where are you from?" when someone is asked "Where is home for you?" the resulting...
Princeton School of Architecture / Architecture Research Office
Architects: _Architecture Research Office_ Location: _New York, USA_ Project Team: _Principal-in-charge: Adam Yarinsky; Project Manager: Megumi Tamanaha; Project Team: Jennifer Park, Tina Hunderup, Adrian Wu, Arthur Chu_ Completion: _August 2007_ Photographs: _Paul Warchol_A strategic intervention, this Addition...
A Conceit of Architects
. What do we call a gathering of Architects? When animals gather in groups, we refer to them by an array of elegant terms: a Flock of Birds, a Herd of Sheep, a Swarm of Bees, a Smack of Jellyfish,...
Europan 11 Proposal: San Bartolomé / CUAC Arquitectura, Serrano y Baquero Arquitectos, Luis Miguel Ruiz Avilés
In the island of Lanzarote two ways of volcanic landscape transformation converge: the rhythm of the earth and the rhythm of human life. The project, by _CUAC Arquitectura_, _Serrano y Baquero Arquitectos_, and_ Luis Miguel Ruiz Avilés_ which was...
Momofuku Ando Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates
Architects: _Kengo Kuma & Associates_ Location: _1100 Okubo Komoro, Nagano, Japan_ Completion: _2010 _ Total floor area: _1,999 sqm_ Structural engineers: _Kanebako Structural Engineers_ Mechanical engineers: _P.T.Morimura & Associates, LTD_ General contractor: _Taisei Corporation_ Photographs: _Daici Ano_We wanted...
Critical Territories / Groundlab and Plasma Studio
Opening tomorrow at the _AA_, Critical Territories will share the work of _Groundlab_ and _Plasma Studio_ -two interdisciplinary firms pushing the envelope of the relationship between and the expression of landscape design and architecture. The installation will share the...
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