Maison Bulle
Pierre Cardin’s bubble house near Cannes
June 18, 2007
April 23, 2007
Romantic Loft
Apartment Therapy show off Victor & Soeun’s Romantic Loft
March 12, 2007
UNStudio
Dutch Design and Architecture firm UNStudio have an interesting selection of buildings/furniture and prodcuts.
March 06, 2007
Zaha Hadid in Budapest
Zaha Hadid has designed a landmark building for Szervita Square in the historic centre of Budapest, Hungary
October 31, 2006
Claude Cormier
Mocoloco interview landscape architect Claude Cormier
October 18, 2006
Ailing Communities
Pediatrician Richard Jackson believes that the reason behind a lot of societies chronic illness is due to poor (sub)urban planning and heavy reliance on the car.
Musee du quai Branly
Boston Globe Correspondent Robert Campbell takes a swing at Paris' new museum of "the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas". Not only does he believe that the concept of this type of museum is 'Victorian' in the way the exhibits are shown out of their natural context. But the building's architecture by French Starchitect Jean Nouvel is poorly thought out and sub standard. (login with bugmenot)
September 08, 2006
Crescent House
Architect Ken Shuttleworth, looks beyond the square in his 'Crescent House'
June 26, 2006
Ecospace
Pre-fabricated, architecturally designed contemporary garden studios - ecospace
June 14, 2006
Castle shopping
If you are in the market for your very own castle - here is a list that may help you decide
May 15, 2006
Starchitecture
Is the current marketing trend around building an 'architecture brand' good for architecture? Salon look at how modern architects are marketing themselves in the current realm of the starchitect
April 07, 2006
Modernism
"The modernists were the neocons of 20th-century art" Simon Jenkins at the Guardian takes a look at the latest exhibition at the V&A.
March 29, 2006
40 Bond
Ian Schrager's 40 Bond st, New York cool luxury loft living - designed in collaboration with Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron
March 27, 2006
Elbe Philharmonic
Hamburg's new cultural landmark for the Elbe Philharmonic. Designed by Swiss star architects Herzog & de Meuron
PS1
Canopy design by nArchitects a Los Angeles firm founded by Hernan Diaz Alonso - a small step off the computer and into real space
February 16, 2006
Q&A with Zaha Hadid
City Magazine interview Iraqi/British Architect Zaha Hadid
December 08, 2005
Modernist dream house
If you have a spare $3 million dollars and would like to live in house designed by E. Stewart Williams (First commission was the Frank Sinatra House) then this house, recently used for a photo shoot with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, should fit the bill.
December 07, 2005
Zaha Hadid
CBS News profile one of the worlds most famous architects - Zaha Hadid
November 18, 2005
Tastemakers: Architecture
Forbes have put together their list of the 21st century's architectural tastemakers
November 09, 2005
House of Light
British architecture firm Gianni Botsford Architects have completed a house in London designed using complex calculations with regards to the light and the weather. By creating in depth environmental data they have produced a house where the light "is a thing of architectural sorcery" - Jonathan Glancey from the Guardian thinks it is "Brilliant'
November 02, 2005
Skyscrapers
A website devoted to the worlds skyscrapers. Lots of building illustrations and comparisons from through out the world
October 31, 2005
The quiet elegance of Renzo Piano
Italian architect, Renzo Piano's work has developed from being the outrageous Pompideau Centre in Paris to a more subtle form of Architecture. Piano, rejects the notion that great architecture has to make a lot of noise. "The intensity of architectural experience doesn't rely on vertigo, on acrobatics,"
October 27, 2005
Dubai's sand castles
Mike Davis from TomDispatch investigates the architectural boom in Dubai, where everything has to be the biggest, brightest, tallest and most expensive. 'Pruned' (a landscape architecture blog) follows the meme
October 17, 2005
Castles in the Sand
October 12, 2005
Megachurches
Slate have a good slideshow of some of the worlds largest modern churches - An anatomy of a Megachurches
September 15, 2005
Creating architecture within a vacuum
When architects are inspired by their associates, the 'Architectural Police' jump up and down claiming plagiarism. But can architecture exist within a creative vacuum?
August 15, 2005
Greenwich Village
Once the beat to New York's cultural heart, Greenwich Village is a dying cultural wasteland filled with generica and wealth.
August 03, 2005
The new Pompidou
The Pompidou Centre Metz in eastern France, due to open in 2008, will show rotating exhibitions from the museum's 56,000-strong collection.
May 30, 2005
Bill Gates' house
If you are interested in checking out Bill Gates' estate the US news have an interactive guide.
May 17, 2005
Cool cladding
Monotonous, minimal grey building exteriors are yesterday's news - now it's all about colour and pattern.
April 21, 2005
New City
A new island has been created in South Korea and over the next ten years a $25 Billion city is being built for over 100,000 people - New Songdo City
April 18, 2005
Science, Pseudoscience and Architecture
An interesting look at modernist architecture, today's 'starchitects' and the humanistic architecture of tradition.
January 28, 2005
Spacebox
Prefabricated studio units stacked upto three floors high - spacebox and how they are 'constructed'
January 20, 2005
Architecture of density
Some amazing Hong Kong Architecture photos
January 18, 2005
Organic Architect Awards
Promoting both design innovation and environmental responsibility.
January 17, 2005
Glass Facades
Sleek, seamless glass facades are the latest in apartment cool in New York City
January 10, 2005
Euroscraper
Contemporary architecture that sits outside of the cube.
Contour Crafting
A larger version of the rapid prototyping machine. a robot that builds houses, squirting concrete out through a nozzel slowly building up walls - Contour Crafting
December 20, 2004
Renzo Piano
Slate talk about Renzo Piano, his work and attitudes to architecture
December 16, 2004
Worlds tallest building
What will become the worlds tallest building is about to begin construction in Dubai
December 15, 2004
McBank
A new style of bank looks ready to open in Brooklyn, NY. It has all the properties of a fastfood chain.
December 09, 2004
Factory Chic
First there were loft apartments now your whole home can be designed like a factory.
December 06, 2004
Archipelago
Philippine architecture company - Archipelago
December 02, 2004
New York Changing
Some nice photography of New York - the way it was and the way it is today
December 01, 2004
Mall b gone
An illustrated instruction sheet to reclaim the space malls currently occupied, done in a similar style to inflight emergency cards - via k10k
November 29, 2004
Gehry too bright
The newly completed Disney concert hall in LA reflects the light so brightly that people could end up going blind.
November 08, 2004
Wal Mart
A Wal Mart owned discount store has just opened it's doors less than a kilometre from the ancient temples of Teotihuacan, despite months of protests claiming the sprawling complex was an insult to Mexican culture.
November 02, 2004
2004 RAIA award winners
The 2004 Royal Australian Architecture awards have been awarded - here are the winners
October 18, 2004
Gherkin wins
Foster's Gherkin wins the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize
October 13, 2004
Lab Architecture
The Architects behind Federation Square in Melbourne - Lab Architecture - are currently working on SOHO Shang Du in Beijing
October 12, 2004
Worlds tallest skyscraper
The Taipei 101 skyscraper has just been declared the worlds tallest building
September 30, 2004
Privatisation of public space
When parks and public areas are financially underwritten by private money the effect on the decision making process is far from open.
12 must-visit Architectural wonders
Some great looking buildings and a nice flash presentation.
September 21, 2004
Bad Beijing Architecture
The city is booming, but that doesn't mean everything that is being built is good. Another opinion on Shanghai architecture from and American Architect in Shanghai.
September 16, 2004
Hurricane test
A house built in Florida designed to withstand hurricanes is about to face it's first big test - Hurricane Ivan
September 10, 2004
Renzo Piano
The London Bridge Tower project may be under threat now that PwC have decided not to take space in the building.
Guerrilla Homes
Looking for somewhere a little different to live?
August 20, 2004
Wallpaper on the comeback
Since New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) more wallpaper designs are beginning to surface
August 19, 2004
Gehry designs a car
Frank Gehry has been given the brief to design a car.
August 17, 2004
Curse of the shopping mall
Like alien generic forms that suck the life out of cities - the curse of the shopping mall
Cornerstone garden
A landscape garden festival in California, showcasing new designs from some of the worlds best landscape designers.
August 05, 2004
wow-chitecture
When an architect becomes a celebrity due to the creation of a building they can become trapped into reproducing the same style over and over by clients that not only expect, it but demand it.
July 27, 2004
Build me a castle
Thinking of having your own castle? This company builds them for you.
July 21, 2004
Rem Koolhaas' new Prada 'shop'
A brief article on the new Prada concept store on Rodeo Drive designed by Dutch designer/architect Rem Koolhaas
Preserving modernist buidings in the UK
A website listing modernist buildings that are under threat and need to be preserved.
July 12, 2004
Look at Me!
An edited extract Graham Morrison gave at the Architects' Journal/Bovis Awards for Architecture dinner. Are 'landmark' buildings ruining our cities?