Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of this museum for modern art in South Korea by architects Álvaro Siza , Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim.
Mimesis Museum has a flowing concrete form that wraps around a central courtyard, and was inspired by a sketch of a cat that Siza drew upon arriving at the site.
The three-storey building has service...
Las pinturas, murales e instalaciones de Esther Stocker se basan en estructuras cuadriculares y geométricas con colores como el negro, blanco y gris. Manifiesta enredos, interconexiones, interpenetraciones, tanto semántica como formalmente. Stocker rompe constantemente con la noción del orden y el espacio. Ver más dentro del post; English info after the jump; The paintings, murals and in...
Las Vegasban – még 2007-ben – lebontottak egy 65 éves kaszinót, a New Frontier-t, amiben 1956-ban Elvis Presley is bemutatkozott. Egy ideig a milliárdos Howard Hughes tulajdonában is volt. A nagyhírű épületnek megadták a méltó búcsúztatót. a tippért köszönet Vértes Lacinak!
(ez csak egy ajánló, a teljes cikkért kattints a fenti címre!)
Autodesk , proprietor of popular 2D/3D design software AutoCAD , is about to bring AutoCAD back to the Mac after a nearly two decade estrangement. AutoCAD is to engineering and architecture design what Photoshop is to photo editing, so this is a Pretty Big Deal.
Like many software makers (and users), Autodesk bailed on the Mac platform during the early 1990s, at least as far as AutoC...
Hylozoic Groun , espectacular instalación por el arquitecto Philip Beesley , Toronto. Un bosque de hojas acrílicas se mueven a modo de respiración dentro del pabellón de Canadá en la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia, que se estrena esta semana. Ver más dentro del post; English info after the jump; Hylozoic Groun by architect and sculptor Philip Beesley was selected through a na...
A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child’s bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday and photographed by Happy Lim.
Play House is part of a gated cluster of 120 residences in Bumi Serpong Damai, Tangerang.
Apart from three enclosed bedrooms the interior is an open-plan space with whitewashed walls and exposed ten-metre co...
Behold! From the earth underfoot jumps forth a sculpture of epic preportions, with a light in it too! This is a single-house project. There’s only one of these amazing amalgamations. But look, if enough people flip out over it, go nuts over it, break a blood vessel in their forhead for it, maybe it’ll be made on a large scale? I hope so. This is fabulous. What this project consists of is metal tri...
If this looks large to you, imagine how big it would seem to someone half your size or smaller. Like some childrens picture-book come to life, this ‘ Enchanted Forest ‘ wooden tree house may look a bit kitsch to us as adults from a design perspective – but for kids it is one very cool combination of fairy tale magic and real-life adventure.
Held up by a combination of wooden beams and actual...
What’s cooler than a rotating house? One whose solar panels produce five times the energy the house uses. That’s pretty incredible, considering that even zero-energy structures are rare.
German architect Rolf Disch built the home, called Heliotrope, to follow the sun throughout the day. The structure features triple panes of thermally insulated glass to strike a balance between letting light ...
The illustrations of TokyoGenso (a.k.a. Tokyo Fantasy) depict a post-apocalyptic Tokyo devoid of people and overtaken by nature.
Shinjuku skyline [ + ]
Tokyo Big Sight [ + ]
Rainbow Bridge [ + ]
Moai statue at Shibuya station [ + ]
Kabuki-za Theater, Ginza [ + ]
Mode HAL iKO Building, Shinjuku [ + ]
Poster for "The Book of Eli" (Japanese title: "The Walker") [ + ]
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65 million people play Zynga's online games every day. Millions of web browsers open to millions farms and millions of frontiers. They take turns, they tend crops, they send gifts. They buy millions of objects and upgrades. It's a mind-boggling amount of data. It's a new sort of data, and it warranted development of a new sort of database management system.
That system, Membase , is a "...
This is the Stone House , a home built in the middle of the Fafe Mountains, in Portugal, rising in the middle of a wind farm. It uses two gigantic granite stones for its main structure, linked with a concrete mix. More »
American firm Choi + Shine Architects designed these conceptual electricity pylons shaped like human figures to march across the Icelandic landscape. (more…)
Believe it or not, the Broad Pavilion , one of 17 corporate pavilions at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo , was completed in under 24 hours! The six-story energy-efficient structure was designed to use just 20 percent of the materials used by other pavilions of a comparable size. It also consumes just one-sixth of the energy of similar-sized pavilions due to a series of passive solar design techni...
We desperately need one of these Floating Pools outside our studio.
+ Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City… and they need your help. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. This si...