The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is located on a prominent “gateway” site of the 61 acre Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas, at the corner of Grand Central Parkway and Bonneville Avenue. (source arcspace) Read more...

Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, New York State and the City of New York have worked to rebuild the site and return it to a lively and important center in one of the world’s most notable cities. Snøhetta was selected to design the only building that actually sits on the memorial grounds. (source arcspace) Read more...

Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano has designed their own office in the middle of the woods near Madrid. (source coolboom) Read more...

The shape of the roof and the glazed brick give reference to the lanterns in cathedrals. (source arcspace) Read more...

The traditional Shanghai nong-tang or “lane-house” receives a 21st-century update in the form of a hotel by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office (NHDRO): The Waterhouse at South Bund. The traditional houses are known for blurring the public and private realms and this is translated into the hotel through slim apertures that create unexpected visual connections between the private rooms and the public lobby. (source iconeye) Read more...

Krawitz Architecture projected this unique house with a second skin made with bamboo in Bessancourt, near Paris, France. The house is closed to the north to limit heat loss and opened to the south benefitting from free solar energy. Aesthetically, it is an abstract replica of a traditional house. (source coolboom) Read more...

The 'treehotel' is set to open this weekend. located in Harads, Sweden about 60 km south  of the arctic circle - currently consisting of four rooms: the cabin, the blue cone, the nest  and the mirrorcube. the project was conceived by tree hotel co-founder Kent Lindvall,  a former guidance counselor who came up with the concept with his wife britta. two additional structures are scheduled to open in october: the UFO and a room with a view. (source designboom) Read more...

 “The aquarium interacts with its surroundings and becomes a manifestation of nature itself.”
Anders Park, Project Manager (source arcspace) Read more...

Design & Access Statement
The Seven Meadows site comprises of a barn conversion with out buildings on 0.39 hectares or 0.97 acres of land. The Site is located to the west of Stithians Reservoir and lies approximately 2 kilometres north of the village of Carnkie, 2.9 kilometres north of Porkellis and about 3.5 kilometres west of the village of Stithians. Community facilities and services are available in all these villages. The main urban area of Camborne-Pool-Redruth is located some 6 kilometres to the north. (source archdaily) Read more...

We, Unsangdong Architects, are proposing a rather unfamiliar approach to architecture, , which was exemplified in Kring_Kumho Compound Culture Space. Brand strategy, once used to be employed only by profit organizations as a means to create monetary assets, has evolved endlessly to reborn.  (source archdaily) Read more...

“Weaving as a means of establishing flow to resolve the site’s disparate staccato informs the principal strategy for cohesively incorporating numerous existing structures with the additional square feet of recreational facilities, classrooms, housing, campus store, dining hall, and varsity aquatic center, that are included in this new facility.” Morphosis (source arcspace) Read more... 

OMA’s first project in Canada aims to integrate the building with the surrounding park and initiate new links with the city. (source arcspace) Read more...

Davide Macullo Architects projected another stunning house located in the Swiss Alpine village of Lumino.  (source coolboom) Read more...

The Spanish design firm Designhouses, have recently completed the Hotel Viura, located in the Spanish wine region of Rioja Alavesa. Named after the most widely planted white grape variety in Rioja, Viura is a new hotel with 26 guestrooms and seven suites, two bars and a restaurant. (source contemporist) Read more... 

You might have noticed that I’m a huge fan of Japanese architecture. But I’m very impressed by The Narrow House designed by Bassam El-Okeily in Bilzen, Belgium. The facade is looks like a sculpture. (source today and tomorrow) Read more...

“It’s all about the lake,” was our clients’ direction when we began designing this vacation home in rural Iowa. (source archdaily) Read more...

The dream house “Casa Son Vida” in Spain, designed by tec Architecture, a Studio from Switzerland. (source LooksLikeGoodDesign) Read more...

Dutch architectural firm VMX Architects have designed the SODAE-House in Amstelveen. (source contemporist) Read more...

With bee populations dwindling and researchers still working to find answers, architects in the UK are showing their support for insect populations in London city parks by designing luxe bug hotels! British Land and The City of London Corporation just announced a shortlist of five designs in their Beyond the Hive competition for bug hotels that will now be built around the city in hopes of buoying insect populations with sustainable habitats. Starting June 18th, the public can start voting for their favorite design which will be awarded a "Golden Beetle" award along with a juried winner during the London Festival of Architecture. (source inhabitat) Read more…

The house occupies a natural ledge on a hillside looking towards the panoramic valley of Montaña Monarca, in Morelia, Mexico. The building has been conceived as a homogenous stone mass, hollowing out a huge opening that slopes from ceiling to floor, framing the hillside panorama. A sloped celosia grid meant to evoke renaissance perspective drawings was placed in the middle of the core in order to distort and emphasize the view. (source archdaily) Read more... 

How would an apartment look like if it was inspired by a painting of Karel Appel? Well, something like the one that follows! Dutch Architectural office DUS Architects recently designed the interior of the Karel Appel House which opened its doors in May 2010. The concept of the house is inspired by the idiosyncratic works of Karel Appel, who was characterized in his paintings by his phrase: “I start from my matter- the paint and the canvas.”  (source yatzer) Read more...

Manchester United star Gary Neville got green light from Bolton Council for his eco house-in-the-hill to be built in Harwood, Lancashire — “the first zero-carbon property in the North West of England”, as it is described on Make Architects‘ website. (source ai4a) Read more...

Architect Byoung Soo Cho’s Earth House is quite possibly one of the classiest dugouts ever built. Set amid peaceful woods and rice fields an hour east of Seoul, Korea, the subterranean structure consists of six tiny unadorned rooms (kitchen, library, two bedrooms, and a bathroom) and a 23-by-23-foot courtyard. Cho describes the house, dedicated to Korean poet Dong-joo Yoon, as a place for self-reflection. He says the concept goes back to his 1991 graduate thesis at Harvard, where he began exploring Taoist ideas about negative and positive space, and the question of just how much (or little) space we need in order to live comfortably. (source dwell) Read more...

The Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing aims to counter the current privatized urban developments in China by creating a twenty-first century porous urban space - inviting and open to the public from every side. (source arcspace) Read more...

The location at the top of a small slope in the middle of the village cemetery is characterised by beautiful panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. (source archdaily) Read more... 

We all would like to live in an eco/green/efficient home but not without a touch of modernity. Architect Andy Bernheimer of Della Valle Bernheimer solves this problem by creating this beautiful modern home in the Hudson Valley. (source vidafine) Read more…

Mexican a10 studio collaborated with Carlos Marín from Lab07 as also Hugo Sanchez from Entorno to create a proposal for the agriculture museum in Culiacan. (source designboom) Read more…

Fallingwater today announced that a jury has chosen Patkau Architects of Vancouver, British Columbia, as the winner of its first-ever design competition for on-site cottages that will support residential educational programming at the Frank Lloyd Wright masterwork in Fayette County. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

Raleigh, North Carolina, has taken a dramatic step towards becoming a cultural centre on a regional or even national level with the reopening of the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) at the end of April. (source iconeye) Read more…

In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the “Domestic Transformer.” (source miragestudio) Read more…

Swedish architectural firm Tham & Videgård have completed the Garden House in Viksberg, Sweden. (source contemporist) Read more…

TYIN Tegnestue is a non-profit organization working humanitarian through architecture. TYIN is run by five architect students from NTNU and the projects are financed by more than 60 Norwegian companies, as well as private contributions. (source travelwithfrankgehry) Read more…

“We wanted the architecture to convey a sense of well-being, openness and multi-cultural mix that has a direct sensory relationship with its surroundings.” Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines (source arcspace) Read more…

Vir.Mueller Architects designed a prototype for community toilets in Rajasthan, a rural area of India. Public sanitation services are vital in India, yet the country is severely lacking such facilities. With this in mind, the National Foundation of India asked the architects to create a prototype, with the hope that the model could be distributed around the area, helping all the families in the village of Delwara. (source archdaily) Read more...

You may remember the NYC Department of Transportation’s call for designs for an “economic, temporary surface treatment” for the new pedestrian plazas on Times Square. The design was meant to be a placeholder that will keep the plazas looking fresh till the real overhaul slated for 2012. (source metropolis magazine) Read more…

The building will be an experimental generator for new ideas in music education and performance. (source arcspace) Read more…

Our fascination with prefab buildings knows no bounds — but add bamboo to the mix and you’ve really got our attention. These two beautiful houses in Hawaii were recently built using bamboo as the main building material. The total construction time? Two days. (source inhabitat) Read more…

SF-based IwamotoScott Architecture have designed an incredible spiraling mixed-use high rise as part of an economic study for Greenwich South, the 41-acre site directly south of the World Trade Center. Straddling Edgar Street, the twisting tower features a number of sustainable building strategies, including an environmentally modeled skin, fiber-optic daylighting, and bio-filtration terrarium floors within dual-branching atria, which work much like a set of lungs to provide fresh air to the building. (source archiEurope) Read more…

Australian designer Jared Poole has designed the Seafarer Residence in Surfers Paradise. (source contemporist) Read more…

Located in the Bajio, Mexico’s breadbasket, the National Laboratory of Genomics is an extension of the Institute of Agricultural Studies. (source archinect) Read more…

Sagan Piechota Architecture have designed the Otter Cove residence in Carmel, California. Full description after the photos…. (source contemporist) Read more…

The apartments, a steel structure built around the silo, protrude into the light and the landscape like Lego bricks. (source arcspace) Read more…

Architect Brent Kendle has designed the Desert Wing House in Scottsdale, Arizona. (source contemporist) Read more…

Woodstock Farm is designed by Rick Joy Architects and is located in Vermont. Even though the architect specialize more in desert house designs he managed to create harmonious shingle-and-stone house and barn. (source digsdigs) Read more….

All of our patient waiting has finally paid off – the final design for San Francisco’s new transit center was finally revealed last week! The San Francisco Transbay Transit Center is designed to hold 12 transit systems and will also house the future high speed rail terminus. (source inhabitat) Read more…

Anne Holtrop’s Trail House follows a series of trails in the ground that were created by the daily circulation of pedestrians. The house becomes the path and transforms the inside into a “walking home.” (source archdaily) Read more…

AMO, the think tank within the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has extended its expertise in planning into the design of the future energy infrastructure of the EU as part of Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe. The project, proposing an EU-wide decarbonized power grid by 2050, launches in Brussels today to an audience of European leaders. (source architecture lab) Read more…

The storage building designed by the famous Swiss engineer Maillard two centuries ago underwent a total renovation. The space under the roof with 4 meters high ceilings became the new office for an upcoming IT company. (source archdaily) Read more…

Clad in copper-hued shingles, and nestled into the berm which flanks the entry drive, the Wildbeast Pavilion is both a recital hall and an outdoor performance shell. Hodgetts+Fung conceived of this performance space much as one might design a musical instrument, with an acoustically resonant form, simple adjustments to enhance performances, and functional, yet aesthetically rewarding materials. (source architype) Read more…

This house was designed in 1969 by architect Herman Andriessen. A year after completion he passed away. The house has been restored by architect Arjaan De Feyter as an honour to the original architect. (source daily icon) Read more…

Elemental in nature – walls of glass, floors of stone, supports of concrete, a roof of copper – “it’s not really about the architecture itself, but more about the architecture as a vessel for looking at the view,” says Daniel Piechota. (source contemporist) Read more…

Chilean architects Antonio Menéndez Ferrer and Cristian Barrientos Vera of Rearquitectura have designed the Lofts Yungay II in Valparaíso, Chile.
The geographical conditions are fundamental design choices. The building is located on a site with steep slope at the front is the back that overlooks a ravine. (source contemporist) Read more…

The design for the museum, demonstrates an extremely sculptural approach, combining ingenuous and playful functionality with highly visual design. (source arcspace) Read more…

Here are some photos of the Manhufe Parking Lot in Matosinhos, Portugal by Guilherme Machado Vaz, 2009. (Previously.) Photographs are by z.z. (source archidose) Read more…

The building, like a desert rose, appears to grow out of the ground and be one with it. (source arcspace) Read more…

The Hiroshima based architectural practice CAPD realised this minimalist single family residence in Komatsushima city, on the east coast of Shikoku Island. (source dailytonic) Read more…

Located on a high eastern-facing ridge with views downtown Los Angeles in the distance, the Banyan Treehouse is a diminutive art studio and sanctuary. (source contemporist) Read more…

In an interesting article from the New York Times this week, different families completed not so typical renovations. A few years ago, the Sleeper family moved from their crowded Missouri ranch house when they saw an eBay offering for three acres with an empty sandstone cave in Festus, Missouri. (source archdaily) Read more…

This renewable energy generating tower located on the coast of Rio is one of the first buildings we’ve seen designed for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and boy, is it crazy! (source inhabitat) Read more…

The Monterey Residence reinterprets traditional hacienda architecture to create a contemporary design focused around an inner courtyard. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

Roughly a year behind its original schedule, the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will break ground on March 16 on the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University. When finished in 2012, it will be the second Hadid-designed building in the United States, after the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003) in Cincinnati, Ohio. (source architectural record) Read more…

‘Orb House’ adopts a minimalist aesthetic as a counterpoint to the heavy handed, utilitarian architectural fabric that makes up it’s streetscape tapestry. Located on a unique site descending rapidly towards the Yarra River and Yarra Bend Golf Course, it is less a protest statement than an exploration of contrasts through purity of form – a simple transparent circle in a congested patchwork quilt. (source contemporist) Read more…

The building is designed in the deconstructivist style -with a limited palette of concrete, untreated timber and corten steel. The material choice accentuates the counterpoint of ramp and landscape by matching most of the materials to the colour of the surrounding sandstone, leaving the corten steel as the only strong visual element. (source travelwithfrankgehry) Read more…

Ecohotel “Friend House” is located on 3 hectares plot in forest resort zone aside of Orel river bank, 30 km far from Dnepropertrovsk. (source archdaily) Read more…

Continuing our coverage of the 2010 skyscraper competition here is indonesian rezza rahdian, edwin setiawan, ayu diah shanti, leonardus chrisnantyo second place winning entry. (source designboom) Read more…

Masquerading as a stack of firewood, rustic yet modern, movable and built from sustainable material - this log cabin has it all. (source iconeye) Read more…

Steven Holl Architects were awarded first prize in the design competition to redevelop the site of the oxygen and boiler plants in Hangzhou. (source arcspace) Read more…

The architectural expression for the new performing arts centre by Zaha Hadid Architects was inspired by the uniquely beautiful monument of Petra. (source arcspace) Read more…

With over 16,797,000 square feet (1,560,500 m2), the recently opened City Center Las Vegas has become one of the largest LEED certified projects in the world. (source archdaily) Read more…

Alila Villas Hadahaa, is the first luxury resort in the Gaafu Alifu (North Huvadhoo) Atoll in the Maldives’ new southern frontier. (source contemporist) Read more…

"Hotels are homes in time where for a short while the visitor enters a world where he inhabits a new identity. They allow him a new story, a and the anticipation of another future." GRAFT (source arcspace) Read more…

“Condominio P” is a residential building located in Cagliari. The complex lies in an area affected by profound changes in urban planning and architecture, not all positive. (source archdaily) Read more…

Sound is an integral part of the way we understand the space surrounding us. Size, quality, timbre, texture and the atmosphere of a space can all be inferred by the way in which we experience sound. Based on ideas from the Suffolk island of Orford Ness, Ric Lipson’s acoustic theatre ‘Hear Here” has been developed over a preoccupation with the acoustic qualities of circular spaces and ambient sonic landscapes. (source interactive architecture) Read more…

Situated on a single campus overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, with extraordinary views of the Alps, EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

The winners of the HOUSING TOMORROW competition for 2010 have been announced by d3, an organization committed to advancing innovative positions in architecture, art, and design by providing a collaborative environment for architects, artists, designers, and students from throughout New York City and around the world. (source bustler) Read more…

A futuristic reuse concept for Melbourne’s ill-fated Southern Star Observation Wheel sees it transformed into a transport hub for flying trams. (source australian design) Read more…

Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's uncompleted 50x50 House (1951), Manglano-Ovalle has constructed a half-scale version of this iconic Modernist glass-walled house and inverted it so that its ceiling becomes its floor. (source arcspace) Read more…

It may seem ironic, but even petroleum research centers can be LEED certified if they meet the critieria. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

Rocha Tombal Architecten designed a basic form with sculptural “eyes” that emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape. (source coolboom) Read more…

The latest images of recently illuminated infinity bridge in Stockton-on-tees, Uk designed by Speirs and Major associates was sent to designboom. An unusual aspect of the project is the way the lights respond to the movement of the pedestrians as seen in this video. (source designboom) Read more…

Architect Julio Barreno has completed the renovation of a traditional patio house in Ubrique, Spain. (source dezeen) Read more…

Helsinki architects AFKS have completed a children’s daycare center in Espoo, Finland, clad inside and out in strips of timber. (source dezeen) Read more…

Blok Kats Van Veen Architects projects this private house located along the edge of the Homeruskwartier neighbourhood facing the Almere forest stroke. (source coolboom) Read more…

Helsinki architects AFKS have completed a children’s daycare center in Espoo, Finland, clad inside and out in strips of timber. (source dezeen) Read more…

The Basel based HHF Architekten realised this countryhouse for two young art collectors. The design reflects their request for simple abstract looking piece, sitting almost without scale on top of the vaste property, which is located two hours upstate from New York City. (source dailytonic) Read more…

The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics brings together a dozen different groups with vastly different cultures, focuses, and scopes into a single structure designed to facilitate collaboration and spontaneous discourse. (source arcspace) Read more…

This beautiful single-family house is located on a hill overlooking fields and Fyn beech forest. Its consists of two composite boxes which are done in simple gray, custom-made stone. (source digsdigs) Read more…

Here are a couple Tadao Ando-designed buidlings, photographed by etogh33. (source archidose) Read more…

It has been almost 10 years since, in his study of n.3940 av atlantica in Rio de Janeiro, the architect Oscar Niemeyer handed over to Domenico de Masi the concept consisting of a model and some drawings of the auditorium, all accompanied by sketches and text. (source designboom) Read more…

In a Zurich municipality, better known for its industrial and shopping facilities, nimmrichter cda compiled a study dealing with the long term development of a plot of land with an existing building on site. (source contemporist) Read more…

This small and breezy house in Venice, California, designed by Robert Choeff and Krystyan Keck of the Bureau of Architectural Affairs, was completed in April 2009. Source bldg blog) Read more…

The Diamondhouse is a sound studio and office extension to a house located deep in a canyon, against a severely sloping hillside, with minimal access and little space upon which to build. (source archdaily) Read more..

This home, called Villa Dali by 123DV Architecture, is spectacular. It might not be for everyone, but if you love architecture or art (or both) I bet you’re gonna love this one. It was also selected for the WAN long list for Best House of the Year, 2009. (source design milk) Read more…

The Frankfurt/Main based architectural practice reinhardt_jung [architekten und ingenieure] realised this extension of an existing single family house with the aim to create a “four generation residence”. Read more..

Standing on 6 stilts is house in obama, by japanese suppose design office. The rectangular building has no exterior Windows. (source designboom) Read more…

Looking for a luxurious hotel to stay at in the Netherlands? Why not try out this Cold War-era East German airplane, which has been transformed into a super delux hotel suite. (source inhabitat) Read more…

Designed by LAN Architecture, this unnamed apartment complex is planned for the Terres Neuves District of Begles, France. (source AMNP) Read more…

This house is located in an area dotted with residential buildings. Building a house that creates an isolated world for its inhabitants requires a simple but determined execution. (source travel with Frank Gehry) Read more…

Over the past few years Vitra has aquired a wide-ranging Home Collection. The quantity and variety of objects by many different designers led to the idea of building a showroom to present the items to the public. (source coolboom) Read more…

The recently completed Southport Broadwater Parklands, a world class civic space, will play host to major sporting and cultural events. (source arcspace) Read more…

The Voest steelworks recently completed its new, representative sales and finances head office in Linz. (source arcspace) Read more…

A private house in the heart of suburbia, Celluloid Jam looks like it dropped off another planet. But to architect Norisada Maeda, its futuristic form was just the thing for his clients’ hilltop plateau at the edge of the Japanese city of Yokohama. (source wallpaper) Read more…

Inspired by insects, the Bug Dome is a small sheltered area used during the SZHK Biennale for underground bands, poetry reading, and discussions, and after the Biennale as an un-official gathering place for illegal workers from the Chinese countryside. (source archdaily) Read more…

This intervention is part of an urban requalification plan for an avenue in Sacavém, on the outskirts of Lisbon. It is promoted by Loures City Hall. The project was composed of three interventions, but only two were completed. (source mimoa) Read more…

The Southport Broadwater Parklands, with architecture designed by Queensland firm Whitearchitecture, has been completed. (source australian design) Read more…

Gehry Partners dropped from Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem project
For six years Gehry has been set to stamp his illustrious mark on one of the most historic cities in the world with his design for the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem but following a wave of protest Gehry Partners has been dropped as architect for the scheme. (source wan) Read more…

Design students from the Rietveld Academy have just finished a collaborative assignment with Center Parcs, a chain of commercial family holiday venues. Despite early reservations, it's been a resounding success for all involved. (source design.nl) Read more…

Japanese studio General Design have completed a tall narrow concrete flagship store with no windows for a clothing brand in Nagoya, Japan. (source dezeen) Read more…

This project is one that is hard to name so I am calling it the "Mini Egg House". The project scope was to create a mobile office unit for Xfactoragencies. The architectural design firm behind the project was dmvA of Belgium. (source furniture fashion) Read more…

Chinese firm MAD architects have sent us in images of their 2008 'fake hills' project. their design for a new housing development is located in the coastal city of beihai, on a long, narrow waterfront site. (source designboom) Read more…

From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the "underground" visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas' youth groups in particular. (source archinect) Read more…

The different volumes and surfaces create an architectural expression suited to the multi-functional and synergetic nature of the building. (source arcspace) Read more…

Bluff House sits along the crown of a 30-mile long oval bluff range, its intersecting volumes growing out of the site’s gently sloping terrain. Approaching the house from the former logging road carving through the site’s rhythmic woodland, the building’s silhouette slowly emerges from the dense vegetation. (source contemporist) Read more…

Two recent projects by studio elementare (studio founded by Paolo Pasquini), who participated to Italian Oxygen 2009, with the Butterfly Conservatory. (source arbitare) Read more…

We chose all materials as natural as possible, colors flowing into each other, to create an otherwise monolithic character. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

Italian studio Andrea Tognon have refurbished a building with an L-shaped floor plan in Teolo, Italy, by adding the missing corner. (source dezeen) Read more…

Miguel Angel Aragones has designed the recently opened Hotel Encanto in Acapulco, Mexico. (source contemporist) Read more…

Design team Chimera has conceived of an incredible series of spiraling skyscrapers for London modeled after the complex ecosystems created by the mangrove tree. (source inhabitat) Read more…

A Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners design will form the master plan for the $6 billion development of Sydney’s Barangaroo, formerly East Darling Harbour. (source australian design) Read more…

Isay Weinfeld Architects projected this house for a graphic designer in Sao Paulo with a studio situate below street level opening onto a garden. (source coolboom) Read more…

A-cero Architects have sent us a house they designed in the Spanish city of A Coruña. (cource contemporist) Read more…

This five star hotel is going under – underground that is! Designed by ReardonSmith Architects for a proposed development at Hersham Golf Club in Surrey, London, this new subterranean hotel will pay its ultimate respects to London’s Green Belt by placing all 200+ guest rooms underneath it! The entire scheme is covered with a plush green roof that takes its cue from the surrounding countryside. (source inhabitat) Read more…

Dubai is the most populous city of the confusingly named Dubai, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its primary export is photos tagged WTF!? and crazy. (source cracked) Read more…

As a way of thinking about space, “performance architecture” is based on the notion that the relationships between occupied spaces and occupying subjects are permeable. This is to say that a subject first perceives his or her environment and is then changed by that perception. (source alex schweder) Read more…

It sounds like the plot of the movie Jurassic Park (minus the dinosaurs), but JDS Architects’ have created an incredible plan for a zoo located on the South Korean island of Dochodo. The island could, according to the architecture firm, be a “case study to define a tourist region based on sustainable development only, where natures and structures function in equilibrium, symbiotically feeding one another.” (source inhabitat) Read more…

“I see the MAXXI as an immersive urban environment for the exchange of ideas, feeding the cultural vitality of the city.” Zaha Hadid (source arcspace) Read more…

“…dramatic and welcoming spaces for those who aren't traveling as well as those who are.” Rafael Viñoly (source arcspace) Read more…

Finally, an urban informatics project I worked on that I can talk about here, even if it’s currently still ‘paper architecture’ (pixel architecture?). The nature of urban development is such that I can’t yet say much about recent design work on projects (including Masdar (with LAVA), Helsinki (with Sauerbruch Hutton/Experientia), and just yesterday Seoul (with Studio Libeskind) etc., as well as various others I can’t yet mention, and building/infrastructure-level projects in Brisbane and Sydney.) (source city of sound) Read more…

The Sea Ranch condominium complex by Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker was hailed as a paradigm of ecologically sensitive design—and remains so today.
Sea Ranch grew out of a remarkable commitment to the 1960s cause of ecology. An enlightened land developer, Oceanic Properties, commissioned the environmentally conscious landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (who passed away last month) to plan the development of a 4,000-acre ranch near Gualala, Calif., some 115 miles north of San Francisco. (the architect) Read more… 

Superkül Architects have designed the SHIFT Cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. (source contemporist) Read more…

Two architects, changki yun (korea) and xiaoyi zhang (china) and kyungam architects  have sent in images of their just completed project floating stage named diliter:dancing  light and water) located on the han river. The project is part of the han river renaissance  master plan and will be an eco friendly icon that harmonizes with yeoido's bam island. (source designboom) Read more…

The Academy Building by TEGET Architects is an addition to the already existing banking center designed by British Architect, John McAslan. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

UK architects chris lee and kapil gupta of serie architects have designed 'the tote', mumbai, a banquet hall, restaurant and bar. (source designboom) Read more…

Next to one of the city of Talca’s harshest ghettos –Villa Las Americas- this Church in Villa la Paz serves not only as a place for religious cult, but it also embraces a social agenda in terms of a community program. (source archdaily) Read more…

The Novartis building by Gehry Partners is part of the Masterplan for Novartis, designed by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani, that will transform the St. Johann site, its headquarters in Basel, from an industrial complex to a campus of innovation, knowledge and encounter. (source arcspace) Read more

The arched building is a hybrid of public market and apartment building. (source arcspace) Read more… 

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views. (source TED) Read more…

Dune Anti-Desertification Architecture investigates adaptive (as opposed to mitigatory) strategies leading to the creation of a climate-conscious architecture that responds to the extreme environments of tomorrow’s globally-warmed world. (source earthArchitecture) Read more…

MAD architects has sent us images of a new project, urban forest, located in chongqing, china. Drawing on the mountainous landscape of the country, the commercial high-rise building, is made up of curved, abstracted shaped floors which have been layered slightly off-center from one another. (source designboom) Read more…

The Watersquare creates a sustainable solution to the flooding of cities
With their design for the Watersquare, Dutch company De Urbanisten offer a new solution to the flooding of cities due to heavy rainfall. As part of the Rotterdam Waterplan 2, an urban policy by the City of Rotterdam to look at ways to store and control water. (source wan) Read more…

Local developer Ron Monahan stood outside the first of 12 homes he and his business partner plan to build in a new north Boulder subdivision and talked about his vision: "We're bringing this to the masses." (source architect) Read more…