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The Endless City (2008) edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon Press
Hardcover, 512 pages

The stats on the cover of Phaidon’s recent tome to expanding global urbanism paint a picture of what many people know but what many people don’t want to believe: the world is primarily urban and it’s becoming more so every day, from [...]

Back in 2000, then New York Gov. George E. Pataki “proposed building one of the first museums in the country to be devoted to women’s history.” The following year’s competition for the Battery Park City site was won by Smith-Miller Hawkinson, but what interests me here is Weiss/Manfredi’s runner-up design.

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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (2000) by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, & L. Hunter Lovins
Back Bay Books
Paperback, 416 pages
Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World (2005) by Peter Buchanan
W. W. Norton
Paperback, 128 pages

One look at magazines, newspaper or television, or a listen to the radio and it’s clear that sustainability has [...]

Here’s some inspiration culled from radio and television, for your Memorial Day Weekend enjoyment.
This weekend’s Studio 360 includes a piece on architect Danny Sagan, who was inspired to become an architect after attending a Mission of Burma concert in the late 70’s.
Last week’s CBS Sunday Morning was its yearly “On Design” episode. Broadcast from Berlin, [...]

Last summer I passed along a cover story in AM New York about a “McMansion under construction in the historic Broadway-Flushing/Murray Hill neighborhood of Queens [that] pitted neighbors versus John Hsu,” who was building a house in a style at odds with his neighbors. An article in this week’s New York Magazine recounts how [...]

The idea of a “folding facade” is not entirely new. Shuttered exteriors have traditionally been used in various locales for protection from the elements, from New Orleans to New England in the United States, and in most other parts of the globe. What separates the newfound use of a folding perimeter to the traditional use [...]

Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis (2008) by Bruce Marshall
Universe
Hardcover, 304 pages
Paris 2000+: New Architecture (2007) by Sam Lubell
Monacelli Press
Hardcover, 240 pages

These two image-drenched coffee table books focus on what can be seen as Europe’s two most cosmopolitan cities, using photographs to tell the story of London and Paris, each in its own [...]

Glastonbury revelers will be happy to know that a dead phone battery mid-festival doesn’t necessarily mean making no more calls until you get home. This is because Orange will be setting up their giant mobile phone charger again, powered by wind and solar power, to provide much-needed juice for low-powered festival goers.

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A new "paperless" architecture book featuring facades from around the world.
This book is the result of two years of architectural research. Dynamic facades, ventilated, high-tech or traditional composites with new features. This book shows that currently new skins not only act as an isolating element, besides interact with the environment, optimizing energy exchange with the [...]

One of our most popular posts here at L+L is the Finland Summer House posted by James back in January 2005. If exploring summer houses in Finland is your raison d’être, then we have a book for you. Finnish Summer Houses by Jari & Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen is a new book from Princeton Architectural Press [...]

These amazing living walls are designed by Patrick Blanc. Patrick Blanc is a french landscape designer and botonist who patented the vertical hydroponic garden he calls “le mur végétal”. Here are two examples of the stunning “le mur végétal” at the market in Avignon and the Stella McCartney’s store.
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I read about this in the New York Times on Sunday and was impressed. Bradd Pitt commissioned 13 architecture firms to design houses for the re-developement in New Orleans. The project is called Make It Right and focuses on designing and building affordable, environmentally sound housing for the 9th Ward in New Orleans [...]

I am a big fan of odd architecture. It’s fascinating to see what a creative mind can accomplish at a larger scale. Here are 14 fascinating home designs.

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Two gorgeous white timber cottages via Martha Stewart swept me off my feet and took my breath away today…

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As part of their global embrace, IKEA the lifestyle giant has begun fitting out train cars in Kobe, Japan.
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Slovenian architects Ofis have completed The Ring, a redevelopment of the football stadium in Maribor, Slovenia. (more…)

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By ANDY NEWMAN
Published: May 25, 2008

NEW CANAAN, Conn.
FOR $3.1 million in New Canaan, you can get a middling, multi-humped colonial colossus of no great distinction but sufficient grandeur to assuage your distress at not living quite as well as your hedge-fund-managing neighbors who paid twice as much.
Or you could get a house by Philip Johnson [...]

The New York Times real estate special section, Great Homes & Destinations does a High/Low comparison of Frank Lloyd Wright single family homes in Minnesota that are currently on the market. It’s a short article but an interesting look at how much the prices of homes are influenced by location, condition and starchitect pedigree…

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1902 2 vols MODERN ARCHITECTURE Fergusson DESIGN
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Hackenbroich Architecten have completed the interior of a hairdressers shop in Cologne, Germany. (more…)

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French-Brazilian architects Triptyque have sent through images of Bela Cintra 1235, a private apartment in São Paulo. (more…)

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Vintage Retro Modern Double Neck Table or Desk Lamp
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This stunning new residential development being planned for the Putrajaya waterfront just 30km south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, caught my eyes . The designers, Studio Nicoletti Associati and Hijjas Kasturi Associates , drew their inspirations from traditional Islamic design and the marine to come up with [...]

Green Roof - A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects (2007) by Christian Werthmann
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 160 pages

The roof of the book’s title sits atop the American Society of Landscape Architects’ (ASLA) headquarters in Washington D.C. It is a relatively small roof of 3,300 [...]

New York asked four architects to come up with ideas for the odd-shaped block at Canal and Varick Streets, recently cleared by owner Trinity Real Estate (to be used as a sculpture park until long-term plans are made). The magazine "required only that the result include a residential component and that it more or less [...]

Pocket Gardens: Contemporary Japanese Miniature Designs (2007) by Michael Freeman
Universe
Hardcover, 224 pages

The term “pocket garden” brings to mind pocket park, those roughly lot-size public spaces scattered about Manhattan that are small in stature yet have a wider impact that makes them successful urban design elements. Perhaps the most well-known is Paley Park in Midtown Manhattan. [...]

Pentagram Papers 37 presents Forgotten Architects, a look at 43 Jewish architects working in Germany before 1933. Exhaustively researched by “Haifa-born architect Myra Warhaftig—who died on March 4 at the age of seventy-eight—[she] spent twenty years piecing together the stories of these architects, publishing her findings in They Laid the Foundation: Lives and Works of [...]

Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier (2007) by Adam Mornement and Simon Halloway
W. W. Norton
Hardcover, 224 pages

When one hears the term corrugated iron (or the more contemporary corrugated metal or corrugated aluminum) a few conflicting images pop to mind: large industrial buildings, third-world shanty towns, Quonset huts , and the houses of Glenn Murcutt . [...]

I’m really into the Pre-Fab movement but when I saw these prints from an authentic 1970s pre-fab, I realized how much our tastes have come full circle. The interior, color palette, furnishings are so now that I think that anyone could live in this fabulous pod without seeming out of date.

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PRE FAB NOW BOOK COVER
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If you get the chance please check out PRE FAB NOW written by James Grayson Trulove and
Ray Cha, Published by HarperCollins.
In this book is a six page spread on Jennifer Seigal’s prefab display home, for which
Jordan Cappella (me) did the interior/furniture design for. See images above.
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Review of my recent architectural work in Montserrat
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Gentleman’s Magazine, TOPOGRAPHY, architecture, 9 vols
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These magnificent photos are featured in Desire to Inspire, a blog with amazing inspirational ideas for the home! After seeing these interior designs, you can’t help but to be inspired!

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The Beijing National Aquatics Centre, also known as the Water Cube, opened in February, hosting the Good Luck Beijing 2008 Swimming China Open. The Centre is part of the 2008 Olympic Village and will host the swimming, diving and synchronized swimming events in the 2008 Olympics.
Designed by the Australian architecture firm PTW, the building boasts [...]