Architecture 833 items | updated Jan 20 2012

    • Cheap Housing
      The current global community continues to struggle with issues such as energy conservation, poverty, and declining economies. There are countless ways of battling...
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    • Building On Legacy - video
      In 1991, during the construction of a Federal office building at 290 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, excavators unearthed the largest colonial-era cemetery for enslaved...
      by 4 years ago  |  3
    • sf could take a lesson
      from Holland, where architects are dealing with rising sea levels by re-designing Sausalito-style
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    • The eco-living! - video
      Earthships demonstrate a way of living in harmony in the planet by using recycled materials to construct innovative homes that are basically self-sufficient. enjoy!
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    • A Skyspace for Contemplation: Dividing the Light
      "A Skyspace for Contemplation: Dividing the Light." A skyspace offers visitors a place to sit and contemplate the sky. Skyspaces are popular with museums...
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    • Grass-Covered Building in Seoul, Korea
      The real innovation will be the lawn mower they use to trim it up.
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    • Kent students asked to design torture device
      The architectural school at Kent University has stepped into the limelight of controversy this weekend, after first year masters students complained that one of their...
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    • Architecture and the City Festival PSA (AIA, San Francisco Chapter) - video
      Check out the PSA I made for the AIA San Francisco Chapter that aired on KQED Sept 2007.
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    • My crib:  let me show you it
      Shipping containers turned into homes is the centrepiece of a planned huge new eco-town in Edinburgh's Leith Docks area. The man at the controls says he found...
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    • Cool schools!
      Imagine going to school underground. Or perhaps in a shack floating on the sea. Check out these five 'alternative' school settings. They're alternative...
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    • The Old Gray Lady's Moved from Times Square: But She's Still a Victorian Dowager
      The grand old 18-story Neo-Gothic structure on 43rd Street, home to The New York Times for nearly a century, had its sentimental charms. Its complex warren of desks...
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    • Shipping container Travelodge
      How's this for modular architecture? 80+ shipping containers are being used to construct this Travelodge in West London. Each container comes direct from China...
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    • Unlovely '60s Architecture
      Everyone in the UK has to suffer at least one of these eyesores, at an average rate of once daily. This site professes to love all things retro but even they draw...
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    • Marion Mahony: A Pioneering Woman Architect
      "Marion Mahony: A Pioneering Woman Architect." Marion Mahony was the first woman to obtain an architecture license in Illinois. Most of the beautiful...
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    • A Beautiful Bridge (with a Bar!)
      It has a sunbathing area, a trendy bar and a coffee house, plus it allows you to cross the Mur river in Graz, Austria from one shore to another. Beautifully designed...
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    • Gaia's Chastity Belt
      A new cathedral being built in Oakland looks like the opening of a warm, comfy womb -- at first. This architectural and religious critique asks flirtatiously, What...
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    • If You Build It, Will They Come?
      In 25 years, will the current museum construction binge seem brilliant or foolish? Will it have advanced the mission of art museums, or merely diffused it?
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    • Who Controls the Internet? The Perfect Answer is Everyone - video
      The amazing architecture of the Internet ? all of its cables, servers and other structures ? is a complicated network that includes people and organizations such as...
      by 4 years ago  |  0
    • Bird's Nest - video
      Nice trailer for a documentary about the research, planning and construction of the Bird's Nest by Herzog and de Meuron.
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    • Brad Pitt Makes A Difference In New Orleans
      You may have seen Brad working to help rebuild New Orleans recently. Here is the website for the Make It Right Campaign. Here you can learn more about Pitt's...
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