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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Audio Book Lifeguard by Andrew Gross, James Patterson
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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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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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Danish Modern Scandinavia STACKING tables Dan Marc TEAK
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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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Review of my recent architectural work in Montserrat
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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 [...]

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When I see something as spectacular as the LoftCube, I wish I could start my adult life all over again. Instead of buying my little studio in the West Village, I would have bought a LoftCube for around $120,000, had it assembled on some cheap land (back then) in the Hamptons, and furnished [...]

We’ve had our eye on the trend for pre-fabricated modern sheds for a while — with the recent addition of Kithaus to the lineup at Design Within Reach and the upcoming MoMA exhibit on prefab housing, this could be just the beginning…

The New York Times real estate magazine Key takes a look at the [...]

Sim Jae-duck is the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association. In an effort to highlight the world’s sanitation needs, he built a house shaped like a toilet and named it Haewoojae, which means sanctuary in Korean. The 419sqm structure contains two bedrooms, two guest rooms [...]

Earlier, Swedish architects Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture designed a series of four prefabricated low-energy houses called Passive Houses. These are well-insulated homes that are heated mainly by the energy generated by people and household equipment within. Perhaps due to my prying nature, my favorite from the lot is Villa Atrium, an innovative circular structure spanning a [...]

Kithaus recently installed one of their K3 Modernist modules in Big Sur, California. Designed by Tom Sandonato and Martin Wehmann, the K3 is a 9’ x 13’ pre-wired prefab module that is made of a lot of lightweight anodized aluminium that does not require heavy equipment to get it to the installation site. Interestingly, along [...]

It’s snowing here again, in April!, and frankly I’d rather be somewhere warmer, somewhere like say, Silver Lake, CA (aka Willamsburg West). Bohemian Modern is the illustrated guide to Silver Lake, a creative enclave in the midst of Los Angeles and the birthplace of BoMo. As a guide, it touches on the community spirit there [...]

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I have no idea where this “lift lobby” is but it is mesmerizing. I would love to see that in person!

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Hello good idea: Habitat for Humanity and the Home Depot Foundation have joined forces to build about 5,000 energy efficient homes that meet national sustainability standards. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards come in levels, and the organizations haven't indicated which level they intend to build at.
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Renzo Piano Museums (2007) by Renzo Piano, with an essay by Victoria NewhouseMonacelli PressHardcover, 214 pages

In a piece in Bloomberg News last month, critic James S. Russell laments Italian architect Renzo Piano’s dominance of museum commissions in the United States. Citing timid museum trustees and an embrace of “architecture serving art” as reasons for this [...]