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Entries with the keyword "Architecture"

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Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
(12 February 2010) - by Anna Carnick Opening today and capping off a year-long 50th anniversary celebration, the Guggenheim presents Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. For this salon-style installation, the museum invited nearly 200 artists, designers and architects to submit their...
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Platform 3.17
(01 February 2010) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab When a devastating earthquake hit L'Aquila in April of 2009, Italian civil service agency the Civil Protection launched the C.A.S.E. Project to rebuild safe, high quality homes. Employing 16 Italian companies to design...
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Josef Schulz: Sign Out
(01 February 2010) - "Sign out," Josef Schulz's latest exhibition at Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, is the arresting culmination of a series of photographs taken along the highways and byways of America. Widely recognized in art and design spheres for his seductively uniform images...
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SEED Emergency Housing Shipping Containers
(19 January 2010) - Providing temporary relief for victims of hurricanes and earthquakes, SEED turns unused shipping containers into starter homes for emergency situations. The project was already underway when the recent tragedy hit Haiti, leading the group of Clemson University architecture professors...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Nike Flagship, Harajuku, Tokyo
(04 January 2010) - by Gregory Mitnick This video visits Nike's new store in the heart of Tokyo's Harajuku district, interviewing interior designer Masamichi Katayama about how he came up with a way to suit the brand and its locale. Also check out the...
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Interview with Stonehill & Taylor Architects
(04 January 2010) - by Tamara Warren Opening its doors in 1963, Stonehill & Taylor built its prestigious reputation sculpting the face of large scale hospitals and universities. In recent years, the New York-based architecture and design firm moved toward more contemporary settings putting...
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Robert Restaurant at the Museum of Arts and Design
(23 December 2009) - On the ninth floor of NYC's new Museum of Arts & Design, the even newer restaurant Robert adds a definitively modern look inside the controversial building. The dining spot, opened just a week ago, offers sweeping views of Manhattan,...
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The Liberty Hotel, Boston
(21 December 2009) - Housed in a landmarked former jail overlooking the Charles river near downtown Boston, the Liberty Hotel makes a refreshing alternative for business and leisure travelers alike. The stunning architectural adaptation of the Boston Granite School building focuses around a soaring...
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Bigert & Bergström: Tomorrow's Weather
(17 December 2009) - A double helix sculpture in Denmark comprised of over 60 molecular globes, Tomorrow's Weather beautifully reimagines traditional weather balls—also known as weather beacons. While the devices usually sit on top of buildings or attach to towers, Tomorrow's Weather cleverly...
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Black Diamond-Tipped Carbon Dater
(11 December 2009) - Used to write and illustrate directly onto glass, the carbon dater is a black diamond-tipped pen created by Reykjavik-based designer Sruli Recht. Combining his poetic sensibility with a passion for process leads Recht to design objects that look to...
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Arcadia: Cross-Country Style, Architecture and Design
(01 December 2009) - by Anna Carnick The new book "Arcadia: Cross-Country Style, Architecture and Design" interprets its namesake (the remote mountain region of Greek mythology) for the modern age, surveying contemporary alpine and back-country architecture, bespoke furniture and interior design projects that take...
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MAXXI Art Museum
(24 November 2009) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab Designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Zaha Hadid, the new MAXXI (National Museum of the Arts of the 21st Century) is the newest astonishing piece of architecture in Rome. With a planned opening in spring...
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Equinox Fitness Clubs: Design Matters
(17 November 2009) - Advertorial content: Equinox Fitness Clubs takes the design of their clubs very seriously—as of course we think they should. We sat down with Aaron Richter, AIA, the VP of Design, who told us a bit about what he and his...
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Frank Gehry: The Houses
(17 November 2009) - by Anna Carnick Beginning with an insightful quote, Rizzoli’s newest architectural book Frank Gehry: The Houses illustrates his philosophy that "You can learn from the past, but you can’t continue to be in the past; history is not a...
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Openshop Studio
(12 November 2009) - by Andi Teran The typical architecture firm would never tell a client, “We don’t know what we’re doing,” or describe its method as “DEEP PLAY” (yes, all caps). Openshop Studio, however, is anything but typical. Headed by Adam Hayes and...
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Kelly Gorham: The Stones Have Memories
(05 November 2009) - Commemorating the 9 November 2009 unifying of Berlin, photojournalist Kelly Gorham's newest show, The Stones Have Memories studies the wall, looking at the structure as a modern architectural ruin. While much of the infamous barrier has since been razed,...
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Architizer
(02 November 2009) - An entirely ubiquitous medium, it can be difficult to remain current on the progress surrounding the transglobal field of architecture. Architizer, a new website, aims to bring unification to the discipline by tracking daily innovations and linking architects, firms...
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BonFire Jewelry
(19 October 2009) - Conceived while building a health center on a reservation in Nova Scotia, Rachel Hawkes Cameron's line of laser-cut acrylic jewelry—aptly called BonFire—features playful pendants of tepees, feathers and more on hand-beaded strings. Playful but assiduously designed, the clean form...
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Richard Meier: Architect Volume 5
(08 October 2009) - by Anna Carnick In celebration of Richard Meier Studio’s 45th anniversary, Rizzoli new monograph looks at the Pritzker Prize-winning American architect's recent work. Titled "Richard Meier Architect Volume 5," this latest volume reveals that time hast slowed Meier down...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Sergio Rodrigues
(05 October 2009) - by Gregory Mitnick Visiting Sergio Rodrigues at his NYC gallery Espasso, this video checks in with the iconic Brazilian designer and architect to celebrate the relaunch of his "Chifruda" chair. Translated as "the horned one" in reference to cuckoldry, the...
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Facet Design Trend PDF
(10 September 2009) - by Laura Neilson The creative hub Everyone is an Art Director, a website sharing art and design for all, recently launched its first trend publication—a 217-page visual study on Facet Design and its widespread use in contemporary design. The...
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Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture
(06 August 2009) - by Tamara Warren In fashion and art circles alike, the palpable buzz for the September release of " Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture" comes from the French brand's pairing of their coveted insignia with artistic sensibilities. Best embodied in...
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Kimber Modern Bed and Breakfast
(04 August 2009) - While in Austin recently, I spent a couple of nights at a beautifully designed new hotel called the Kimber Modern, located in the happening SOCO area, just a short hop, skip and sideways roll to the bustling hive of...
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La Rinascente Design Supermarket
(30 July 2009) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab The Design Supermarket, a new floor entirely devoted to design in its multiple expressions, debuted recently as part of Milanese shopping icon La Rinascente's ongoing renovation. Over the past four years, international architects...
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Searching For True: Cutler Anderson Architects
(28 July 2009) - We love nature and we love innovative architecture. Cutler Anderson Architects showcase their amazing ability to combine the two in "Searching For True," an upcoming compilation of 22 of their most impressive projects. These projects range from chic, expansive...
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Extreme Architecture: Building For Challenging Environments
(27 July 2009) - Tough terrain doesn't make construction easy, but Ruth Slavid's upcoming book "Extreme Architecture: Building For Challenging Environments" proves that it's not only feasible, but the outcome is completely worth the effort. A journey through the elements, the book covers...
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Holger Schubert Maserati Garage
(24 July 2009) - by Tamara Warren A beautiful car deserves a beautiful garage, and Holger Schubert’s minimalist 1200-square-foot carport for Maserati's Design Driven competition is exactly that. Overlooking western Los Angeles, Schubert's winning design has a setting more akin to an art gallery...
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The Architecture of Parking
(24 July 2009) - If architecture is, as Mies van der Rohe held, "the will of an epoch translated into space," then it's no surprise that a rabid proclivity towards parking structures marks the last century. Born out of an increasing reliance on...
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Frank Restaurant
(17 July 2009) - Designed by and named after the iconic architect Frank Gehry, Toronto's Frank makes a tasty complement to the beautiful buildings of the Art Gallery of Ontario that houses it. The stunningly chic interior design is a work of art...
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Macro | Sea Dumpster Pools
(08 July 2009) - Transforming a dumpster into a pool in a mere twelve days, the creative developers behind Macro | Sea are quickly changing sections of Brooklyn's urban landscape from an industrial wasteland to a pool party. The pool project is a...
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Steven Guarnaccia: The Three Little Pigs
(07 July 2009) - Illustrator and former New York Times Op-Ed art director Steven Guarnaccia reinvents a childhood classic with his recent architecture-inspired version of "The Three Little Pigs." This time around the three pigs are Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank...
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Domecage Prisons
(03 July 2009) - by Richard Dewitt "I like to call them Sportdomes, not cages," says prison architect Willem Van der Sluis. Indeed, his unusual 2007 project in the Zaandam industrial zone in the Netherlands consists of conjoined geodesic domes that don't look...
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Héctor Zamora: Sciame di Dirigibili
(01 June 2009) - The installation "Sciame di Dirigibili" by Mexico-born, Brazilian resident Héctor Zamora is jump-starting the exciting kickoff of the six-month-long 53rd Venice Biennale, offering us a glimpse at what will have festival-goers remembering the event for biennials to come. Zamora...
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"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" House for Sale
(27 May 2009) - Tucked away in the woods of Chicago, this four-bed, four-bath is a modernist masterpiece, but might be more well-know for its starring role in the painfully infamous car scene of the feature film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Its reprise...
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Japan Brand Pop Up Shop: Hitoma Portable Tea Room
(26 May 2009) - by Ariston Anderson The Japan Brand Pop Up Shop, currently at NYC's Felissimo through 30 May 2009, is full of the latest fashion accessories, kitchen props and home décor straight from Japan, but what really caught our eye was Hitoma—an...
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Bastard Bowl x Studiometrico: Comvert Store and Indoor Skate Park
(19 May 2009) - Converting an old cinema theater into a skateboarder's paradise, Italian design firm Studiometrico showed off their innovative talent when creating the Bastard Bowl for the HQ of skate and snowboard company Comvert. By suspending the bowl from the ceiling,...
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Billes Architecture Home Design Competition
(17 April 2009) - Recently, Cool Hunting was invited to participate as a guest judge in the Billes Architecture Home Design Competition, a student competition aimed at fostering new designs for affordable housing in New Orleans' most devastated neighborhoods. Students from 16 U.S. and...
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Rocawear Mobile RocPopShop
(14 April 2009) - by Tamara Warren Taking the temporary retail concept to a mobile level, Jay-Z recently collaborated with architect David Ashen of D-ash on a tricked-out trailer to house the Rocawear line. While Jay-Z handles the music, D-ash's RocPopShop is all about...
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Architectural Review Redesign
(24 March 2009) - Architectural Review, the seminal publication founded in 1896, is receiving its first redesign in 20 years thanks to the people at Alexander Boxill. The project was executed by Violetta Boxill in collaboration with AR's art director Cecilia Lindgren. Boxill notes...
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Paco Cube Prefab Vacation House
(24 March 2009) - by Kelsey Keith With its three meter square Paco Cube, Schemata Architecture Office reinvents the vacation house. The space age looking portable living cube with stark white epoxy interior was designed by architect Nagasaka Hisashi to be equally at home...
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Adam Kalkin: Shipping Container Architecture
(12 March 2009) - Would you live in a shipping container? Until firms like Lot-ek, retailers like Freitag and architect Adam Kalkin started turning them into chic examples of creative re-use some years back, most wouldn't consider the question seriously. Kalkin's efforts stand...
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Biblioteca Vasconcelos
(09 March 2009) - by Laura Neilson Mexico City's recently reopened Biblioteca Vasconcelos is an outstanding example of a contemporary digital-age library, not to mention a significant display of Mexico's modern architectural movement. The $100 million undertaking was designed by Mexican architect Alberto Kalach,...
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Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture
(02 March 2009) - Easily regarded as one of the most adroit architects of 20th century, Le Corbusier was a relentless designer, urban planner and writer dedicated to industrializing almost every city he came across. This spring The Barbican — London's colossal multi-arts venue...
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Droog New York Store
(27 February 2009) - Joining the design elite on Soho's Greene Street, droog opened their multi-story NYC showroom, shop and exhibition space yesterday. Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey lent a hand with the interior, a space that blurs the lines between objects, store...
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Monterey Bay Shores Eco-Development
(25 February 2009) - This spectacular design—still in the works—aims to convert a desolate desert, into a thriving environmental preserve and eco-resort. The building incorporates an astonishing array of green designs, which include a five-acre green roof which supports native species, living walls,...
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Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture: Mod.Fab
(20 February 2009) - by Kelsey Keith Students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona have developed a new prototype for a desert home, injecting modern day pre-fabricated construction methods into the prairie ethos of the 20th century architect. Though recent...
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LVHRD ARCHDL V
(16 February 2009) - Pitting two architecture firms against each other in a timed construction duel, LVHRD sets the scene for another one of their infamous creative competitions. This year's teams include the multi-disciplinary design practice Weiss/Manfredi versus the unconventional firm Front Studio. Both...
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New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion
(11 February 2009) - by Tamara Warren Four hundred years after the Dutch first staked their claim on a patch of land east of the Hudson River under the guidance of Henry Hudson, they're returning to New York City in the form of the...
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Manifold Architecture Studio: Through the Looking Glass
(10 February 2009) - by Ariston AndersonTo create their custom-designed window display, the brains behind Manifold Architecture Studio laser-cut a series of hexagon-based modules in New York, and shipped them flat to Basel Switzerland for an installation in the 5M3 storefront gallery last week....
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Studio Junction
(09 February 2009) - Toronto-based Studio Junction is attempting to create affordable living space for a family of four in what once was a warehouse in industrial Toronto. Reclaiming urban space by in-filling blighted industrial neighborhoods is nothing new. But creating vibrant neighborhoods...
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Geo Birdhouse by Kelly Lamb
(09 February 2009) - by Laura Neilson The birdhouse, most often found outside country cabins and other rurally-situated homes, just got updated for the city. L.A.-based designer Kelly Lamb's new geo birdhouse is a sleek new abode for any urban wren, finch or warbler....
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McBride Charles Ryan Architects: Klein Bottle House
(06 February 2009) - by Kelsey Keith Applying the logic of a mathematical principle—called "Klein Bottle," a continuous volume with no inside and outside—to architecture, this breathtaking private residence is the work of Australian firm McBride Charles Ryan. Nestled among the trees on the...
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MPREIS Supermarkets
(05 January 2009) - by Laura Neilson I know I'm not alone in my love for grocery shopping in foreign countries. It's a great way to get a sense of a country's consumer culture—not just by seeing what the people of that country buy,...
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Best of CH 2008: Top Five Buildings
(30 December 2008) - Though much of the architectural world focused on massive undertakings at the Summer Olympics, Beijing didn't have a monopoly on the creative buildings of 2008. Of the many structures that graced Cool Hunting's bandwidth this year, a handful stood out...
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Architectural Clothes: Interview with designer Nahum Villasana
(12 December 2008) - by Ezra NataliaA normal work day for Nahum Villasana, the man behind Architectural Clothes, lately includes waking up before six in the morning to make it to his day job teaching English at an elementary school in Mexicali, Mexico....
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Capsule Video: Billes Products International Design Contest 2008
(27 November 2008) - For the inaugural video in our new series of mini-episodes, we're pleased to present a document of the New Orleans-based Billes Architecture's first-ever design competition. We were honored to be invited as a judge and, as you'll see in...
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Illustrator Matt Duffin
(19 November 2008) - Trained architect Matt Duffin's sparse illustrations of symbolically loaded objects, anthropomorphic donkeys, and children's toys, are full of dark and blank spaces that make their subjects seem isolated and alone to the point of dread. Extreme sources of light...
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Portland's Clinton Condominiums
(17 November 2008) - by Russ LoweEmerging from a veritable seedbed of interesting architectural endeavors, one of Portland's latest and most compelling building projects is as much a study in anatomy as it is in design. A community-focused and environmentally conscious new development, Clinton...
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Architect Tom Kundig
(11 November 2008) - The winner of the Architecture Design category for Cooper-Hewitt's 2008 National Design Awards, at 54 Tom Kundig maintains a youthful sense of wonder at the path his career has taken. He refers to his recent string of successes as...
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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Opens Its Doors
(28 October 2008) - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center recently opened its new innovative 220,000-square-foot laboratory at its campus in Troy, NY. Designed by British architecture firm, Grimshaw, the building is home to a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat...
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Final Wooden House
(24 October 2008) - Blurring the lines between what is a floor and what is a ceiling, the Jenga-like structure of Final Wooden House allows its occupiers to decide how to use the space according to their position. Comprised completely of wood, Japanese...
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Reinventing Grand Army Plaza
(29 September 2008) - by Tamara WarrenGrand Army Plaza, the main entrance to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, sprawls across 11 acres in a landscaped oval. With regal statues and a sparkling fountain, it's majestic and — its function as a busy traffic circle separates...
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Peter Eisenman: City of Culture
(08 September 2008) - If one were to gaze off into the ancient hills of Santiago de Compostela, their eye might be snared on a large interruption. Architect Peter Eisenman's brand-new City of Culture complex is currently in the heat of construction and...
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Zaha Hadid's ZH Duemilacinque Door Handle Now Available
(03 September 2008) - by Tamara Warren Zaha Hadid, the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, designed a door handle a couple years back that was manufactured by Italian hardware company Valli & Valli and it is finally on sale now....
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Fuchun Resort in Hangzhou, China
(21 August 2008) - By Juliet Kinsman We assume that many of the athletes and some spectators will be doing a bit of travel outside of Beijing after the Olympics. A three hour drive southwest of Shanghai on the outskirts of Hangzhou, we...
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Norman Foster 40 Signature Series Yacht
(21 August 2008) - Designed by renowned architect Norman Foster, built by prize-winning boat-maker Rodriquez Cantieri Navali in Italy and exclusive to YachtPlus (a fractional ownership program), the 40 Signature Series is both an unparalleled vessel and comes with a cost well below...
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The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book
(31 July 2008) - Viewing architecture in two-dimensions can be frustrating. Made to be touched and experienced, powerful architecture is impossible to recreate on paper. But a new book takes things one step closer to that unattainable goal. "The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book"...
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Le Corbusier Le Grand
(22 July 2008) - Reviewing Phaidon's latest tome, Le Corbusier Le Grand, is like being asked to review the Constitution. How do you take in something so all-encompassing, so sweeping in just a few sittings? And then, what do you say about it?...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Glass House
(18 July 2008) - In this video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity. Meanwhile, we explore the site...
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Revolving Architecture Book
(18 July 2008) - If you thought that rotating restaurants and houses were simply relics of our space age past, consider the handful of dynamic architectural projects being developed in the coming decade. The most notable being the Dynamic Tower in Dubai, an...
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Ferrari: Formula Uomo
(11 July 2008) - Soon after a report in the June edition of Wired that talks of spying and sabotage against Ferrari causing a Formula One fiasco, I was understandably a little surprised to be invited to Ferrari's Maranello, Italy headquarters to celebrate...
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Five Sights at the London Festival of Architecture
(03 July 2008) - Hairywood in Covent Garden Piazza The celebrated collaboration between 6a Architects and fashion designers Eley Kishimoto has been reconstructed for 2008 and placed in London's busiest public square. The decorative tower (above left), inspired by both Rapunzel and Jaques...
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Public Farm One Installation
(25 June 2008) - by Scott J LachutFor NYC residents, food just got more local thanks in part to Work Architecture Company's latest project, Public Farm One (P.F.1), their winning entry in the Ninth Annual Young Architect's Program. The installation, unveiled over this...
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The Deptford Project Cafe
(25 June 2008) - The creative renaissance and urban revitalization of London continues to amaze. The Deptford Project is a creative program situated in the old railway yard of Deptford Station, the city's oldest passenger only station. To be redeveloped into a new public...
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Abilmo Pop-Up Hotel Rooms
(24 June 2008) - The summer is finally upon us, and so begins the annual season of outdoor festivals. For those concert goers who wouldn't dare camp out in a tent—and has a pocket full of disposable income—there's Abilmo. The French company offers...
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Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties
(17 June 2008) - "Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties" explores the crash pads, hippie communes, infinity machines and other far-out dwellings of the time period. Author Alastair Gordon, whose other works have dealt primarily with the clean modernism of airports...
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Cascadia Living Building Challenge and Leader Program
(09 June 2008) - by Russ Lowe Moving beyond the once revolutionary LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) scope of strategies and requirements for building green, Cascadia, the Northwest chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council's Living Building Challenge meets once unimagined sustainability...
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Finnish Summer Houses
(05 June 2008) - Nobody appreciates the summer more than Scandinavians. After seven months of winter they savor the brief spell of long days and temperate climates like a precious resource. Many residents—particularly those from Finland—choose to spend this period communing with nature,...
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Kraanspoor: Dock Turned Office Building
(22 May 2008) - The Dutch, the beautiful Dutch—in terms of architecture anyway. With Kraanspoor they have led the way again with this reuse of an old crane dock. A new glass office building, with a climatic façade of double glazing, motorized louvers...
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The Pharos Project
(25 April 2008) - by Russ Lowe Addressing inconsistencies and other challenges in eco-friendly construction, a revolutionary group of like-minded (and large-minded) scientists, architects, engineers, humanitarians and optimists from the U.S. Green Building Council's robust Northwest Chapter, Cascadia, have developed Pharos, a project...
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The Architect's Bird Feeder
(17 April 2008) - Designed by architect Doug Patt (he's also one half of bi-coastal firm Rootphi), the Architect's Birdfeeder is made of eight interlocking polycarbonate (think bulletproof glass) pieces. Like Rootphi's Flat Pack housing, the structural elements ship flat and require no tools...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Lever House Art Collection
(08 April 2008) - For nearly a decade the Lever House in New York City has been home to some of the most daring public exhibits of contemporary art. In this video curator Richard Marshall gives some background on the architectural landmark and...
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Clay Ketter: Gulf Coast Slabs
(21 March 2008) - A show of new work by the American artist Clay Ketter opened in London this week at Bartha Contemporary. Ketter, who has lived in Sweden for over 20 years, is renowned for creating art works through the investigation of...
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Labelscar
(21 March 2008) - A blog documenting the mundanely beautiful side of retail history since its launch in 2006, Labelscar takes its name from the mark left when a business closes and removes their sign exposing the virgin facade below, the equivalent of...
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Mock-Ups in Close-Up
(17 March 2008) - Working in design retail, one of my favorite job perks was visiting architecture firms and sometimes catching a glimpse of building models. Beyond architect biopics, I have little recollection of seeing building models used in film, though apparently there's...
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Brooklyn Modern
(17 March 2008) - There hasn't been a period of such a fervent excitement about Brooklyn homes since the advent of the brownstone more than 150 years ago. In Brooklyn Modern", Diana Lind examines this architecture and interior design boom through 18 particularly...
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The Endless City
(10 March 2008) - Phaidon's latest tome eschews art-and-design for facts-and-figures. The Endless City features essays by prominent architects, urban planners and other metropolitan experts who examine the modern urban condition and back up their conjectures with raw data. Edited by Ricky Burdett,...
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Thomas Heatherwick East Beach Cafe
(05 March 2008) - We cannot claim to be experts on beach cafe architecture, but one look at Thomas Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe and one can't help but think that this is a woefully under-explored area of building design. Surely it's rife with...
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Jimenez Lai
(04 March 2008) - A simple description of Jimenez Lai's work is difficult. Taking architectural plans and renderings, the Ohio-based artist brings them into the world of comics, drawings and models in two- and three-dimensions. The juxtaposition exposes the absurdity of CAD in...
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Rocio Romero: LV Series
(29 February 2008) - It's an all-too-common complaint that modern prefabricated homes don't fit the utilitarian or economical requirements of the average Joe. Fortunately, these Joes have a sympathetic ear with Rocio Romero. The Missouri-based architect built her first prototype in 2000 as...
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Three New Stadiums
(28 January 2008) - In the era of starchitecture, few projects pose more of a challenge to renowned architects than the scale and complexity of a city's crown jewel, the stadium. With a few recent stunning examples in the works, we thought we'd...
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Skate Study House
(22 January 2008) - Paris-born skateboarder-turned-entrepreneur Pierre-André Senizergues, whose company developed skate shoes like Etnies, teamed up with interior designer Gil Le Bon de LaPointe, a fellow skater, to create the Skate Study House, an exhibit that pays homage to both the skateboard...
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Wallpaper Design Awards 2008
(11 January 2008) - Wallpaper unveiled its “Design Awards” series recently with some interesting results. Though we're not sure about their cred since they proclaimed Los Angeles “Best City” (air quality and gun violence were obviously not strong criterias), otherwise the periodical (along...
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Jason Linde: Wenge Clocks
(21 December 2007) - Architect Jason Linde created a series of clocks with unique display using a single stationary hand and a rotating dial for hours. Some feature double dials for both hours and minutes. Featuring wood veneered blocks and laser engraved dials,...
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7th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial
(18 December 2007) - The 7th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial ran for a little more than a month and just ended on Sunday. The event brought together a worldwide set of architects and public institutions under the idea-provoking theme of how public...
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David Adjaye: Monoforms
(13 December 2007) - Monumental. There really is no other word for them. The first furniture series from British architect David Adjaye awed the crowds when London's Albion Gallery debuted it at Design Miami last week. Like his acclaimed buildings these forms, hewn...
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Cleto Munari: Five Pens for Five Nobel Prize Winning Writers
(19 November 2007) - A person's handwriting says a lot about his or her personality; a strong right slant suggests a fierce emotional side while small size might refer to a penchant for details. This idea wasn't lost on Italian designer Cleto Munari,...
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Carmody Groarke: Osnaburgh Street Pavilion
(05 November 2007) - Carmody Groarke, a young British firm, just won an Architecture Foundation competition to design a new pavilion in Regent's Place, London. The firm is a finalist in BD's Young Architect Practice of the Year, and designed the pavilion to...
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Mobile Art Container
(29 October 2007) - Fashion guru, Chanel's Karl Lagerfield, and star architect, Zaha Hadid, have combined to create this Mobile Art Container, which is to roam the world from 2008 to 2010 bearing installations by 18 international artists. The result of a chance...
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Thirst Wine Merchants
(26 October 2007) - Specializing in hard-to-find wines from small vintners out of California, Germany, Italy and mainly France, Thirst Wine Merchants is a carefully curated wine shop. Located in the historic Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, they also carry a small...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Minneapolis Architecture
(21 October 2007) - Starting with Philip Johnson's acclaimed IDS Tower in 1972 (which is still, perhaps, one of the best looking skyscrapers in the country) Minneapolis has seen architecture play an increasingly important role in the fabric of the city. Recent buildings...
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Richard Meier: Houses and Apartments
(18 October 2007) - A follow-up to the book Rizzoli published on pre-eminent modernist architect Richard Meier 10 years ago, their forthcoming Richard Meier: House and Apartments is a hefty volume featuring 28 stunning works. Organized chronologically, each private residence, apartment building and...
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Elkus Manfredi Neiman Marcus Store
(18 October 2007) - Inspired by a silk dress, the wrapping for a new Neiman Marcus store in Boston undulates and folds around the building. Neiman's philosophy is that every store should look completely different from every other of their stores. In line...
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Interview with Amanda Levete
(11 October 2007) - Size + Matter, it could be said, was one of the most viewed events of the London Design Festival last month. Two installations by two of the U.K.'s leading architects—both women—were placed outside the cultural hub that is the...
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Ettore Sottsass: New Works 2005-2007
(17 September 2007) - There's perhaps no other living designer who embodied the bold, playful look of the '80s more than Ettore Sottsass. Like the revivalism in fashion, graphic design and music seen in recent years, the groundbreaking Austrian-born designer's furniture and architecture...
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Mithun Urban Farms
(17 September 2007) - As myopic urban planners and developers pave over rich topsoil to create giant-box stores and auto malls in their pursuit of easy tax revenue and profits, a partnership of forward-looking architects have hatched a scheme to comingle agriculture with urban...
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Foster + Partners Eco Tower
(17 September 2007) - Foster + Partners have clearly been busy on the large-scale eco front with another offering in the Russian city of Khanty Mansyisk. This 280-meter tall tower is built like a cut diamond to maximize daylight through the winter months...
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Super-K
(11 September 2007) - The Super-Kamiokande, or Super-K as it's known, is not the latest nightclub VIP booth but is a neutrino observatory designed to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos and keep watch for supernovas in the Milky Way....
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Alsop's Filmport
(29 August 2007) - British architect Will Alsop's design for the new Filmport complex in Toronto has just been unveiled and is set to be one of the largest film studios on the North American continent. The building is a giant sectional arc,...
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Laje
(24 August 2007) - When Homer Olivetti and his partner were procuring an office for their film production company Ouro 21 in São Paulo, they knew they wanted to be part of the energy inside the multi-story alternative shopping mall Galeria Ouro Fino....
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Urban Cactus
(23 August 2007) - On the harbour in Vuurplaat, Rotterdam, a proposed Urban Cactus rises from the usually boxy Dutch architectural landscape. Responding to the natural setting of being on the harbour, UCX Architects envisage a housing project that is green with stacked undulating...
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Russian Architecture
(17 August 2007) - Wondering what the latest architecture being built in the new Russia is like? One of the major trendsetters that led to today's architectural modernism, Russia is having a real spurt of building. The construction above is example of a...
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Vertical Garden
(16 July 2007) - At 200 meters long and 12 meters tall, this vertical garden is an impressive permanent and living installation at the Musée Du Quai Branly in Paris. The "living wall" was designed and planted by Patrick Blanc and forms the...
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Eco Nano City
(25 June 2007) - A research project by FoxLin, Nano City makes the point that technological development from within the fields of design and architecture can be made to transcend ecological equilibrium—meaning that we could have positive embodied energy assessments, material reductions and...
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Green Project
(12 June 2007) - A fresh take on disaster relief, the New Orleans-based Green Project is a positive approach to the deconstruction of damaged or collapsed homes and buildings. Rather than simply tearing the destroyed properties of new Orleans apart to make room...
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The Contemporary Tea House
(04 June 2007) - The tea house is one of Japan’s most original and significant architectural forms—a small, simple space for the tea ceremony that traditionally requires a hearth, straw-mat flooring and a low entrance. Modern Japanese architects have found the challenge of...
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Cymatics
(07 May 2007) - Generally the study of wave formations—specifically sound— Cymatics looks at the mesmerizing organic shapes created by invisible waves. Founded by Swiss doctor and scientist Hans Jenny who used simple sine waves to create patterns in powders, liquids and pastes,...
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WA Video Installation
(03 April 2007) - Transforming the 17th century facade of Knoll's Paris headquarters on St. Germain, WA is a site-specific video installation by WIKA. Launched last week, the piece constructs the made-up history of the design company's founders Hans Knoll and Florence Schust,...
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Bloomframe
(27 March 2007) - Bloomframe, a window that turns into a balcony, was widely covered last month for making many an urbanite's dream come true. Designed by Amsterdam architect duo Hofman Dujardin, the prototype window frame opens with the push of a button....
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Architecture That Defies Death
(20 February 2007) - The architect-couple Arakawa and Madelaine Gins who are responsible for the Reversible Destiny Lofts have a lot more in their ouevre of conceptual fountain-of-life-inspired structures. After we covered the whimsical apartment building they designed last week, Tropolism alerted us...
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Reversible Destiny Lofts
(14 February 2007) - In 2005 architects Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins designed a building of nine apartments known as Reversible Destiny Lofts in Tokyo. Resembling a combination of Legos and fast food restaurant playgrounds (click image for detail), inside, each apartment features...
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Galeria Melissa
(07 February 2007) - Much in the spirit of the high design collaborations that plastic footwear maker Melissa has become known for in recent years, Galeria Melissa, their flagship São Paulo store was designed to be constantly updated with new graphics both on...
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Daniela Thomas and Felipe Tassara Architecture at São Paulo Fashion Week
(29 January 2007) - I'm in São Paulo on behalf of Motorola for São Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW), which takes place in Oscar Niemeyer's modernist Bienal building. Second only to his design (see his central sweeping spiral ramp here), the temporary cardboard walls...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Materials & Applications
(19 January 2007) - Since 2002, nestled among boutiques and cafes in the popular Los Angeles neighborhood of Silverlake, Materials & Applications has been installing large-scale architectural exhibits in what amounts to a front yard. For episode 62, CH looks at some of...
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Tropolism: PIN-UP
(08 December 2006) - Tropolism has been highlighting their favorite architectural magazines this week. Among the best (and a great gift to surprise the favorite architect on your list) is PIN-UP, a brand-new magazine that plays with the idea of architecture as eye...
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The Chromachron
(30 November 2006) - In 1971, Tian Harlan, architect, engineer and artist, developed the communication system "Chromachron" (Chroma=Color and Chronos=Time) that, as was his hope, visualizes time with less rigidity. A rotating disk with a pie-shaped cutout revolves over a colored time zone (each...
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Ukulele Trivet
(30 November 2006) - Made from recycled die-cut felt that's leftover from the manufacture of ukulele picks, the Ukulele Trivet by the Los Angeles architecture firm Fung + Blatt is an example of creative re-use that's not only clever and aesthetically pleasing, but...
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Dwell on Design: Palm Springs
(09 November 2006) - Our friends at Dwell Magazine have created a special offer for CH readers who register for their Dwell on Design conference in Palm Springs, California. Simply enter the code COOL when registering and receive a $75 discount off the...
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Telefonplan Tower
(31 October 2006) - Standing proudly in the Stockholm suburb of Midsommarkransen, the 10 story, 72 meter tall Telefonplan tower—built and used by Ericsson for many years—stood as the center of their corporate campus and served as a neighborhood landmark. Today the neighborhood...
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Natalie Jeremijenko: Ooz, Inc. (...for the birds)
(08 September 2006) - For all you bird-loving city-dwellers, engineer/artist Natalie Jeremijenko has created a complete urban bird environment (part of her Ooz series) on the roof of Postmasters, with a water system, appropriate foliage, insects, and other bird necessities, including a mall...
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Kanyon
(19 July 2006) - "Live, work and play" could be the tagline for Kanyon, one of Europe's most innovative and exciting developments. Newly opened in the heart of Istanbul, a city of 8.8 million that spans two continents, the mixed-use project amalgamates 179...
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Tropolism: John Powers
(10 July 2006) - Rekindling dormant grade and grad school fantasies at Tropolism today, Brooklyn-based artist John Powers' geometric sculptures, installations, drawings, and paintings reference fine art, pop culture, and his own obsessively imagined, completely fantastical worlds. Triggering deep childhood fantasies of "landscapes...
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Tropolism: Implant Matrix Installation
(23 June 2006) - Today Tropolism directs our attention to the futuristic work of architects-cum-sculptors Philip Beesley and Will Elsworthy who recently debuted their Implant Matrix installation at the electronic media arts center Interaccess' show "Scale" in Toronto. Made from a complex structure...
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RISD Studio: Designing the CH Store
(19 June 2006) - As a final assignment for his Spring 2006 Interior Architecture class, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Professor Jeffrey Katz asked his students to translate Cool Hunting into a physical store. We were very excited to hear about all...
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Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture
(18 May 2006) - Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture's vivid photography makes for engaging eye candy, bringing together a diverse mix such as Victor Vasarely's op-art and Michael Lin's flamboyant florals. Get it from Amazon. Also on Cool Hunting: MoMA 1965: The Responsive...
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Sky Box
(08 May 2006) - My friend and former colleague Stefan Andrén recently finished the Portland, OR home he and his wife Nicole designed as the showcase for their architecture studio Krown Lab. Appropriately named, Sky Box is modernism for the naturalist. Set in...
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Hydro Wall
(05 May 2006) - Next Generation Design Competition sponsored by Metropolis Magazine. San Fratello's proposal will be featured at the Metropolis booth at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair, 20-23 May 2006, in New York, as part of the magazine's 2006 Next Generation...
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JetBlue Story Booth
(28 April 2006) - In order to tell the story of US domestic airline carrier JetBlue in a forthcoming web and tv campaign, JWT (their ad firm) decided to look to JetBlue passengers for content. New York based Mesh Architecture was tapped to...
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LO-TEK's Airplane Fuselage Library
(21 April 2006) - LO-TEK, the New York architecture firm that pioneered the shipping container revolution, recently proposed a new library in Mexico made of stacked discarded Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages. Usually, fuselages aren't recycled and are left to rust in deserts...
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Free Spirit Spheres
(10 April 2006) - I've had a thing for treehouses ever since seeing the Ewoks in Return Of The Jedi, which led to my dad building a great one for my brother and me. We loved playing in it, but if we'd been...
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Metropolis Magazine's 25th Anniversary
(28 March 2006) - Hitting newsstands today is the 25th anniversary issue of Metropolis Magazine. With the original mission of bringing architecture and design to a savvy New York audience, this independent has only changed course to expand its breadth and become a...
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Tropolism: Hidden City Contest Ends
(10 March 2006) - Submissions for the Your Hidden City project end today at 5pm Eastern Standard Time. Click here to see all the entries. The contest was expected to be a little stream: it turned into a deluge. With close to 1,000...
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Toby Neilan
(07 March 2006) - Toby Neilan is an illustrator and screen printer with a clean, familiar style applied to modern buildings and fashion models. His process typically starts with his own photography before bringing in hand drawing and digital manipulation. His fashion work...
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Tropolism: Your Hidden City Grows
(03 March 2006) - The biggest recent news on Tropolism: Your Hidden City, the first open-source architectural contest, has produced about 560 entries! Over 160 entrants have submitted, rumors of a gallery show are circulating, and you still have until 5pm on 10...
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Snow Show
(28 February 2006) - The athletes are leaving Torino now that the Winter Olympics have come to a close, but left behind among the empty stadiums and the debris from the million visitors is a series of conceptual art exhibits fashioned on a...
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This Week in Tropolism
(24 February 2006) - Tropolism explores the outer fringes this week. First, it reviews the designs for the first two commercial spaceports for humankind and finds them, well, awful. Next it reviewed a winning (finally) competition entry by Zaha Hadid for a library...
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This Week in Tropolism
(17 February 2006) - Tropolism's Your Hidden City contest is off with a bang, with over 250 entries so far. The Tropolism Flickr pool is bubbling with wonderful pictures and captions. We invite you to enter into the first open-source architectural competition! This...
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Tropolism Hidden City Contest
(10 February 2006) - After a week of very subtle buildup, Tropolism is pleased to announce the first open-sourced architectural contest, Your Hidden City. The contest is simple: post your photos (with a caption) to our public Flickr pool (or email them to...
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This Week in Tropolism
(03 February 2006) - We started with another Shiny-Gold building, Then two artist-itect posts A progress update on the High Line And ended with some wicked Fashion-tecture.Stay tuned next Friday for a Special Announcement!...
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Melt Modern
(02 February 2006) - Matt Proctor and Aixé Djelal are Portland based cast aluminum artisans who create a range of one-of-a-kind decoratives and architectural elements. Aixé describes their work as "molten lava frozen in space," and that's pretty accurate. Their work exhibits an...
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Design Hotels Yearbook 2006
(01 February 2006) - For trip-planning or idle fantasizing, Design Hotels Yearbook, the paper counterpart to its online booking service, makes a great traveler's companion. Filled with lush, full-page photos that provide rare glimpses into the interiors of 136 stylish hotels around the...
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This Week in Tropolism
(27 January 2006) - This week was the week of Masters. Architecture Masters that defy death (we're so totally not kidding). Masters of the Park. Masters of photography, tilt-shift lens department. And, of course, Masters of Architectural structure....
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This Week in Tropolism
(20 January 2006) - This week Tropolism, we set our Technology Vision to stun, first by looking at SketchUp's new Google Earth Plugin, looking at the thesis projects at Sci-Arc, and looking at a cute little drawing program we just like. We looked...
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The Green Bakery
(16 January 2006) - This new green bakery, said to be the first of its kind, just re-opened (following a brief preview in November it was closed for additional construction) in New York's East Village. All of the materials used in its construction...
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This Week in Tropolism
(13 January 2006) - Tropolism continues to follow the story of the rebuilding master plan debate in New Orleans, along with some crazy article on 2 Columbus Circle published by the New York Times. The preservation debate is in full swing! The new...
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This Week in Tropolism
(06 January 2006) - This week, Tropolism points the way to two news items about rebuilding New Orleans, reviews the new blog Do You Want Some Coffee? now that it's hit critical mass (three months), and sends along an interview of Artist-itect Jon...
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James Tichenor
(21 December 2005) - James Tichenor is a digital Renaissance man. As a trained architect he practiced in New York before deciding to go back to school to explore new technologies for materials and prototyping. That exploration came from an artistic and oftentimes...
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MVRDV's The Hungry Box + Dark Room
(20 December 2005) - MVRDV's characteristically boxy work, opens tomorrow, 21 December, at Fad in Barcelona. Titled "The Hungry Box: Excursions on Capacities," the show runs through 16 January. Timed to coincide with the release of MVRDV's new book, KM3: Excursions and Capacities, Actar...
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This Week in Tropolism
(16 December 2005) - 1. We had some words about an exhibition at MoMA, and why the New York Times will call France but not Spain for interviews. 2. We played with blocks, or, as they are known these days, psycho-social building experiences....
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This Week in Tropolism
(09 December 2005) - Tropolism this week: Projections, Paper, and Wood! We reviewed the new, projection-heavy show by The Builder's Association, in collaboration with the renderers dbox, called Super Vision. We uncovered some paper architecture. And some wood in Chelsea. Oh, and we...
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20.21 at the Walker Art Museum
(29 November 2005) - Heading to Minneapolis? Check out 20.21, the recently opened Wolfgang Puck restaurant in the Walker Art Museum. Similar to the successful pairing of Danny Meyer and the MoMa (where The Modern shines as brightly as the building and the...
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This Week in Tropolism
(18 November 2005) - In Tropolism this week, it was all about Favorites: - Our second favorite concert hall gets the knife - Janette Kim's lecture and show is announced - Our favorite cat-scratch post, The Sculpture for Living, still has no drapes!...
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This Week in Tropolism
(11 November 2005) - It was a week of beginnings, with one ending. AMO (OMA, when they're not picking up redlines) begins a study for the Hermitage, an Olafur Eliasson show begins in Japan, a couple of show openings, and Tokyo retail rebirths...
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S-Wert Designs
(09 November 2005) - Berlin-based S-Wert Design is a "critical homage" to the city, calling attention to gems of Berlin architecture and the way it's evolved - or hasn't evolved - in recent decades. Their wrapping paper series is an assortment of four...
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This Week in Tropolism
(04 November 2005) - This week in Tropolism, we got virtual. As in virtual concert hall, virtual skyscraper, and virtual museum for Ground Zero. We also started a map of our community. We grow....
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This Week in Tropolism
(28 October 2005) - This week Tropolism went deeper into the complex lighting design for the beacon at 55 Water Street, including Tropolism's first architectural movie. The conversation with lighting designer Jim Conti has two parts. Our little post last week about diagonal...
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Lux 11
(25 October 2005) - Lux 11, a new hotel that opened in Berlin's hip Mitte district in July, wins points for a location central to many of the city's best boutiques and restaurants and, with the addition of an Italian-Asian fusion restaurant (slated...
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This Week in Tropolism
(21 October 2005) - It was all about elevated public parks. Visiting the High Line (getting oh so close to stepping on it), while seeing some great art. Visiting the press junket for 55 Water Street, a park we designed in 2002. And,...
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Luis Pons
(27 September 2005) - Four years ago, Luis Pons was farming and tending to his cows in Venezuela's Amazon jungle. Forced from the country due to political strife, these days the architect leads quite a different life as the principal owner and designer...
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Tropolism
(26 September 2005) - The world of Cool Hunting expands again: please welcome Tropolism to our little family. Tropolism explores the city through the eyes of architects. It calls attention to the art of architects, finds urban beauty wherever it may be, and...
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Stones Hotel?
(25 August 2005) - After countless tours, millions of albums sold, drug busts, blood transfusions, extramarital affairs and more, you would think the Rolling Stones would run out of ideas to keep things exciting. But one look at the stage setup for their...
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The Ten Year Hotel
(03 August 2005) - Shipping container mania continues, this time in the form of students Lee Ferguson and Jonathan Whittaker's concept hotel that incorporates the temporality of cityscapes into its design. The 26-room building suspends the containers as self-contained pods within a steel...
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Fernando Romero at Ras
(29 July 2005) - Mexican architect Fernando Romero, the 35-year old founder of the Laboratorio de La Ciudad De México, well-known for designing the Casa Da Música in Portugal while working for Rem Koolhaas' OMA, and who this year founded the firm, LAR,...
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Wood Exorcist
(19 July 2005) - Yann Hervis is a rare craftsman of inlaid wood marquetry, bridging into contemporary art and interior design. His refined combination of precious woods humanizes the usually cold transit spaces of architectural projects: lobbies, doors, staircases, ceilings, elevators... In the...
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Imaginative Inmates
(15 July 2005) - Will Alsop has agreed to take on a new project that's likely to be as controversial as it is visionary. In Leicestershire, England, the esteemed architect will meet this autumn with long-term prisoners at Her Majesty's Prison Gartee to devise...
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James Turrell: Baker's Pool and new show
(12 July 2005) - James Turrell has been challenging our perceptions of light and space for nearly 40 years. Baker's Pool—a technical marvel and artistic tour de force—lives in the basement of a new barn designed by architect Walt Smith of Skidmore Owings...
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The Living Tower
(28 June 2005) - The Living Tower, by Pierre Sartoux presents a beautiful solution to a daunting problem. According to The Vertical Farm, by the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers and that population will increase...
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And you thought you had everything...
(09 June 2005) - This luxe "well box" is a shower and steam room with speakers, light and color therapy. It's chic, elegant, minimal and over the top, just the way we like it. From Megius....
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Chikaku Exhibit at Kunsthaus Graz
(06 June 2005) - Japan fans heading to Austria should be sure to check out Kunsthaus Graz' new exhibit, Chikaku, a survey of Japanese art over the past half century. Something like the older brother to the current much-hyped Takashi Murakami curated show,...
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Hip. Sexy. Chic: Montreal's Hotel Godin
(23 May 2005) - Set at a crossroads between downtown and the hip Plateau neighborhood, in an edifice that straddles old-world charm and modern exuberance, the six-month-young Hotel Godin is the newest boutique hotel to cater to the trendy jet-set crowd in Montreal....
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Egon Eiermann
(21 April 2005) - An extensive retrospective of the work of famed German modernist architect Egon Eiermann is currently underway in Berlin (and will be moving to Nuremberg next). Celebrating his birth 100 years ago, the show documents his buildings, including the German...
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Libeskind in Progress
(20 April 2005) - We mentioned Libeskind's addition to the Denver Art Museum back in February and just included a rendering of the fantastic cubist design. Cubistro has been taking photos throughout the construction process that are a must see for any of...
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Volcano Stadium
(13 April 2005) - Studio Massaud, clearly have a wonderful imagination. These are computer generated images of a new soccer stadium set to look like a mexican volcano--they won a competition to design this new stadium. Advertisements will be projected on the "cloud"...
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Copenhagen: Hotel Fox
(11 March 2005) - Individually themed rooms is nothing new in the hotel world. Hotel Fox will take that idea to a new level when it opens this April in Copenhagen. The hotel has been transformed by 21 street artists, graphic designers and...
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Chichu Art Museum
(23 February 2005) - I haven't had the pleasure of traveling to Japan yet, but very soon I'll be going on a cool hunting adventure there-- and I don't know if I'll ever return! One place I must stop as I'm on tour...
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The Poseidon Undersea Hotel
(15 February 2005) - Poseidon. Rooms will be submerged 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. $1500 a night gets you a room at the bottom of the ocean, each room will be equipped with spotlights and control to...
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Studio 804
(14 February 2005) - Studio 804 is a design and building program offered at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design. They're focused on what they call community based architecture. Essentially the students are designing and building low income and...
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Denver: Art Museum Addition
(10 February 2005) - The Denver Art Museum is getting quite the grand and futuristic expansion--They're calling it the Frederic C. Hamilton building. It's going to be an impressive geometric shaped explosion made of glass and over 230,000 square feet of titanium all...
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Mill City Museum—Minneapolis
(04 February 2005) - Mill City Museum, one of downtown Minneapolis's latest architectural achievements. Rather than completely erase the existence of the former flour-processing plant that was destroyed by fire in 1991, the new museum was constructed within the remaining outer walls, now jagged...
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Futuro House
(03 February 2005) - Without a description of these pictures you might think I spotted a UFO, but this is actually a house by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. The Futuro House is in San Diego, and is one of 20 that were ever...
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Archinect Shirts
(02 February 2005) - Archinect is the website that has definitively connected designers and architects from around the globe. They have covered a zillion different architectural topics, and now they are offering a few wearable souveniers. These T-Shirts are all by different designers....
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The Spacebox
(26 January 2005) - This looks like a cheap version of the Compact Design Living space we saw a few months ago. A crane stacks these guys 3 units high, each unit is complete with a kitchen, shower, and toilet. They look almost...
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Millau Viaduct
(16 December 2004) - The Millau Viaduct recently opened up in France and was inaugurated by the French President Jacques Chirac. It was designed by the English architect Lord Norman Foster. It's the highest bridge in the world measuring at 343 meters (1125.33...
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Web House
(04 November 2004) - The London architecture firm m3 has designed a temporary living structure that can be attached to the side of a building. Perhaps a cross between the Aero Bed and a Tent Caterpillar, the Web House is meant to be...
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Transmaterial
(29 September 2004) - Transmaterial is a catalog of materials, products and processes that are redefining our physical environment. Edited by Blaine Brownell, the project started as a product of the week newsletter sponsored by the Seattle based architecture firm NBBJ. This incredibly...
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The LED Cube at Millennium Park
(16 July 2004) - Alisa Schwartz sent these pictures of the LED Cube at Chicago's new Millennium Park. This thing is somehow cool, creepy and beautiful all at once. Stay tuned for more on location review of the art and architecture of Millennium...
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Highline Design Finalists
(28 June 2004) - The Highline is an elevated rail along a portion of 10th Avenue in NYC. It was built in the 1930s and closed in 1980. Now, thanks to Friends of the Highline, the remaining elevated tracks are being converted to...
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FutureShack
(15 June 2004) - Designed by Australian architect Sean Godsell, FutureShack is an experiment in emergency housing. Constructed from one ready-made twenty-two-foot-long shipping container, FutureShack is equipped with a minimum of industrial materials and is entirely self-contained, which enables multiple structures to be...
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Millenium Park, Chicago, IL
(11 June 2004) -   Next month is the grand opening of Chicago's Millennium Park. The centerpiece is the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States. The last few Gehry buildings seem...
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Henry Urbach Architecture
(03 June 2004) - Now through the end of July, Henry Urbach Architecture is featuring two exhibits. One is Moistscape, by the Freecell Collective. The other is a series of photographs by the genius architectural photographer, Ezra Stoller. Both are not to be...
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Loft Cube
(16 April 2004) - Loftcube is a prefab(ulous) 40 square meter rooftop studio designed by Werner Aisslinger. via mocoloco (where there are more pictures)...
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Contemporary Art Museum: Niteroi, Rio, Brazil
(15 April 2004) - Oscar Niemeyer is undoubtedly Brazil's most influential modern architect. I was only able to see a small sampling of his work, but was blown away by the Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi (outside of Rio). This Jetson's fabulous structure...
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Peter Miller
(10 February 2004) - The Peter Miller bookstore in downtown Seattle has one of the best collections of Architecture and Design books I've seen in one shop. The full collection isn't available on their site, so call or write if you're looking for...
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Wallpaper Navigator
(12 January 2004) - Next month Wallpaper* will release a book featuring the Navigator* section from all their past issues. Each city includes the following sections: * Scene setter: panoramic shots of each city - beautiful and informative * The hottest hotels (and...
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Reflecting Absence
(06 January 2004) - 'Reflecting Absence' by Michael Arad has been chosen as the memorial to those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th. The piece uses a pair of reflective pools to mark the location of...
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Save the TWA Terminal
(07 November 2003) - 2003.07.11 Manhattan User's Guide reported that Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK, that glorious, swooping, curvilinear icon, which proves that a building doesn't need great height in order to soar, is about to be destroyed by the Port Authority....
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The Manhattan Skyline
(29 July 2003) - John Wagner has spent 3 years drawing an the Manhattan skyline from both the East River view and the Hudson River view. Both go from Battery Park up to 96th Street. The illustrations are phenomenal. The design is also...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
(27 April 2003) - The MCA Chicago is featuring work from Hiroshi Sugimoto, a Japanese photographer. Sugimoto's blurry perspective on architecture is sublime. The installation was also designed by the artist and is among the most intriguing presentations of photographs that I have...
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Couch Potato Architect
(24 April 2003) - Here's a quick, fun way to design your own floor plans... Check out: small blue printer...
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New World Trade Center Designs
(05 February 2003) - The design decision for the next World Trade Center is down to 2 possibilities. One is from THINK, the other from Libeskind. More information is on the Lower Manhattan Web Site...
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