Entries (RSS)
Apartment Therapy
If you’re a designer it’s unlikely your aesthetic sensibilities cease when you go home. Apartment Therapy, whose tag line is “Chang [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
Ten Things
Stumbled upon this manifesto by architect Michael McDonough while researching illustrators for a design project. From Number 7: The power to create t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
More Is More
I doubt architect and designer Verner Panton subscribed to a Less is More philosophy. Instead the Danish artist made a substantial contribution to th [...]
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Categories: Architecture, Art, Design | 1 Comment »
Build Your Homes in Factories
Two years ago, while in Ontario visiting with friends and family, I was kindly invited to my cousin’s new home for Thanksgiving dinner. Getting [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 17th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
Urban Nomad Shelter
Made of welded PVC plastic with inflation neck and valve, The Urban Nomad Shelter is designed to re-brand the homeless and re-map urban real estate. [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
The Billboard Building
The Billboard Building in Moto Azabu, Tokyo, was conceived as more a billboard than a building. Klein Dytham Architecture decided that the tiny trian [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
Nice House Sheikh
This house is not a luxury resort, but rather the private residence of the late Sheikh Zayed, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ru [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | 4 Comments »
Frank Gehry raises the bar in Brooklyn
Always inspiring, Frank Gehry reveals his proposed design for the Brooklyn Nets arena and surrounding 21 acre corridor. The Times architectural crit [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | 1 Comment »
Dog is a God
Temples for four-legged Gods: tailor-made habitats created in the likeness of those of man and designed for their different attitudes and lifestyles. [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
Bendable Concrete
A new type of fiber-reinforced bendable concrete has been developed at the University of Michigan. The new concrete looks like regular concrete, but [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
Vancouver vs. Walmart
Walmart wants a piece of Vancouver, and they are doing whatever it takes to get it. Vancouver City Hall rejected Wal-Mart’s plans to open a s [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | 2 Comments »
Cubes
Do these living spaces look anything like the shipping crates that the older robots lived in in the movie iRobot to anyone else? They do look rather [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
Pixels are the new facade
How do you make a 70’s concrete building modern? Stick 4,340 frosted glass disks backlit with LED’s behind them to the building. Obvious [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, January 24th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »