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"The Aesthetic Of The Perfectly-Groomed Lawn""Environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains American's fascination with the perfect lawn."
Push-Pin LampIs this the "Holy Grail of office decor"? HotGadget seems to think so. The Push-Pin Lamp features push-pin shades that are available in 4 different colors and includes a cork bottom.
Re-presenting modernismThe Guardian features several articles in "a special report celebrating the movement" inspired by the exhibition of modernist art, architecture and design at the V&A.
Your own private playpen"Forget balance and tranquility. This apartment complex in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka is all about living off-kilter. Designed by Arakawa and Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts look more like a McDonald's play structure than a block of shoebox apartments
Super-sized down underAustralia is out doing America in the McMansion game - bigger has to be better. "But more rooms and bigger spaces do not necessarily give us what we need in a home."
BioWall - a beautiful 'living' wallA beautiful ephemeral structure, yet sturdy, which acts as a trellis for plants. This molecular configuration can be admired as a design 'piece' in itself, but it also acquires a poetic quality once plants make the structure their own.
Remembering Harry Seidler"Harry Seidler preached the gospel of modern architecture to his adopted country (Australia)."
Sunlight TubesScientists are developing a system to transmit sunlight via optical fibers into buildings.
Loblolly House - sustainable and elementalKieran Timberlake Architects designed the house based on the elements of nature - elevated on piles in the trees with the cordgrass marsh elevated to the roof - and elements of architecture - a system of building components constructed off-site.
2006 Leading Edge Student Design CompetitionArchitectural planning and design that integrates environmentally responsive design strategies, project site is the Orange County Great Park. Registration deadline 3/31, submittal deadline 6/16.
GolcondeOne of the earliest works of sustainable modern architecture in the world designed by architects George Nakashima and Antonin Raymond, completed in 1945.
Graphic ConcreteGraphic Concrete Ltd has invented a patented process to apply surface retardant on a special membrane to create high quality, cost-effective etched graphics on cast concrete surfaces.
Aaron Rose"Somewhere between pinhole photography and medieval alchemy, photographer Aaron Rose thinks of his own imagery as 'photography in its purest phase.'"
Reading and sleddingThe Technical University of Delft Library by Mecanoo Architecten features a massive planted roof, a tilted lawn lifted up from the campus landscape providing a space for walking and lounging and even snow sledding.
Google Gobles Up SketchUpGoogle continues to take over the world, this time taking in @Last Software, maker of the quick and handy 3-D modeling tool SketchUp.
Design of the Times"Baby boomers wore their passions on their sleeves—and on their walls and everything else they touched. How a generation of style shapers left their mark."
State Sowing Seeds for a Future L.A. LandmarkAn article about the previously Clipped competition for the Cornfield in Los Angeles.
I wonder how Brad Pitt is getting along with his interest in Architecture...Coming across this article (2005) "From Troy to Hove - Brad Pitt's new career", one cannot help but wonder if it is a brief architectural encounter or a long lasting love with 'bricks & mortar'?!
Architects as developers?Metrohouse is a design and development company that builds modern homes in Austin, Texas. They don't say that they are architects... and maybe they aren't... but maybe architects could learn something here.
Interview: Oliver Hess of Materials & ApplicationsWe've featured several projects from Materials & Applications, a non-profit research center in Los Angeles dedicated to pushing new and underused ideas for landscape and architecture into view. Interesting interview, check it.
Trading runways for housesAirports have become prized properties for US developers, converting airstrips into housing, commercial and mixed use developments.
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh by Koning EizenbergJohn Hill explores the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh as designed by California based Koning Eizenberg Architecture - two classical buildings linked together by a dynamic modern structure.
"Cladding: the comeback""Minimalist glass and steel exteriors are so over. Now fashionable building designers are dressing their works in the architectural equivalent of flared trousers. By Steve Rose"
"Raising the (green) roof - Green roofs are the new black tar""Greening your roof could save you 25% on energy bills, help clean the air, and provide a cool place to relax all at once."
Teddy Cruz and Tijuana (sub)urbanismI've had the pleasure of touring Tijuana with San Diego based architect Teddy Cruz, investigating the unique form of urban development and makeshift architecture that exists in this border town. Nicolai Ourousoff profiles.
Cardboard furniture not by GehryA cardboard bench created by Jason Iftakhar takes on supermarket waste utilizing existing packing machines to cut and bind used cardboard boxes.
Don't call him a postmodernistAn article profiling Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. Apparently he doesn't like his work being called postmodern. Huh... you know what I say? PoMo! PoMo, PoMo, PoMo!