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King ResidenceGallery of photos from the King Residence in Santa Monica, CA (John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects).
Open-Ended LearningA survey of outstanding K–12 schools underscores the compelling ways that architects and designers respond to the changing nature of education today.
Talieisn Mod.Fab at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, ArizonaLooking more inspired by De Stijl than by Organic Architecture, the Taliesin Mod.Fab was designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture with the faculty guidance of Michael P. Johnson, and guidance by visiting faculty Jennifer Siegal and Laura McAlpine of the Office of Mobile Design.
NYU high-rise dorm swallows churchPreservationists, peaved. Students, ready to party in the belfry. God, unavailable for comment.
CCTV aftermathIf you like destruction without the death (well, unless you subscribe to the whole death of starchitecture thang), here is a whole roasty-toasty photo set to quench your desire for things charred. Boy, the superintendent's gonna be pissed!
Architecture advice: 5 cents. Do you get what you pay for?Laid off architect John Morefield charges people 5 cents for design advice at a Farmer's Market in Seattle. Boy am I glad I gave up on that architecture career...
The Grossman House in Beverly HillsA slideshow feature showing the home by lesser known mid-century architect Greta Magnusson Grossman. The LAT heading on the frontpage reads: "After 50 years, a female architect finally gets her due. Step inside her glass box." Uh wow... that's quite a choice of words... forget it.
New Porsche Museum off to a roaring start"Porsche's new museum in Stuttgart is a spectacular piece of architecture featuring equally spectacular cars. Auto fans can worship at the temple of speed as of Jan. 31." So what if the Vienna-based firm Delugan Meissl went 100% over the budget of $65 m. in times of harsh worldwide economic turmoil? "SUPERFANTASTIK" Architecture is priceless, no?
Álvaro SizaThe Portuguese architect is RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medallist. Tsk, tsk, Nico... how did you neglect one of your own?!
Central High School 9Photo essay by LA-based photographer Monica Nouwens of the new arts school in Los Angeles designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au. Ride the waterslide with Karolin Schmidbauer. Jawohl!
Jan Kaplicky, 1937-2009"Jan Kaplicky, who died last week, was a trailblazing and inspirational architect but one whose endeavours often left him disappointed". By Amanda Baillieu
Shortlist for Urban Splash/Muse home competition"The shortlist for Urban Splash and Muse Developments Make me a Home competition has been revealed." I am starting to get a feeling of deja vu with the Tutti Frutti competition. Interesting nonetheless.
24 Rooms Tucked Into One?!"This room — the “maximum kitchen,” he calls it — and the “video game room” he was sitting in minutes before are just 2 of at least 24 different layouts that Mr. Chang, an architect, can impose on his 344-square-foot apartment, which he renovated last year." Mr. Chang seems to either be extremely flexible, or an extreme commitment-phobe...
Ida HO!A house for a lonely woman in BFE designed by architect Tom Kundig. Pictures sure are purty. [slideshow]
Restoring an Eichler on a budget"Set designer Cindy Epping redecorated her 1960s Eichler House in Granada Hills on a tight budget. She says she spent only about $5,000 — mostly online shopping — and relied on her creativity to help re-create the period vibe of the house."
The New Yorker picks Architecture's Top 10 of 2008"Architectural history will probably treat 2008 more kindly than it deserves to be treated, only because there was architecture to talk about. Never mind that most of the buildings finished over the last twelve months are relics of a time when we actually thought we could afford to build things. The pickings for 2009 are going to be slim, and for 2010 slimmer still..."
Directing Prefab from IraqA civil engineer directs the design process and erection of the family's prefab home in New York while on duty in Iraq. Overachiever...
A Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles"Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple." - We'll drink to that!
"New wave hero Portuguese architect wins UK's most prestigious prize"Álvaro Siza Vieira, the Portuguese Pritzker Prize winning architect, is this year's recipient of the Royal Gold Medal. Parabéns! - Thanks, Drew.
Renzo's CA Academy of Sciences"If you want reaffirmation that human history is an upward spiral rather than a descent into darkness, head to the new California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park, which opens on Saturday."
Shipping containers could be 'dream' homes for thousandsNot quite modern design, but give them time.
Citambulos"BOOK, OBJECT, MANIFESTO, INVENTORY, MICROCOSMOS: as unclassifiable and heterogeneous as the city it describes, CITÁMBULOS. The Incidence of the Remarkable is, above all, a guidebook for getting lost in Mexico City."
I'd be a house guest..."Coldwater Canyon guesthouse a green-hued retreat in a box" designed by architect Aleks Istanbullu.
Green + Wired = A 'smart' homePackaged for mass consumption - video of Michelle Kaufman designed home on "display" at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Brad Pitt, blah blah blah"Brad Pitt will be part of a team of consultants appointed to design a new five-star hotel and leisure development in Dubai, developer Zabeel Properties said on Monday."