Slovenian architecture firm Superform, known for their progressive architecture, furniture and interior design, has delivered on all these expectations (and then some!) with a progressive timber home design in the town of Ljubno ob Savinji, about 70 kilometers from Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana. A combination of two houses, this unusual house separates the living and [...]

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This landmark building in Oslo by Snøhetta (Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Tarald Lundevall, Craig Dykers) is the
largest cultural centre built in Norway in 700 years. The competion brief stated that the operahouse should be monumental in it’s expression. Snøhetta’s interpretation of monumentality is a concept of togetherness, joint ownership, easy and open access for all [...]

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Architects Lauren and Eric Wendlandt with Kansas City based Framework Design architecture firm are the brains behind this 6,500-sq.-ft. sustainable home that encompasses residential, commercial and workshop space in one. This Kansas City urban architecture has character, inside and out. The wood clad house combines a natural appeal with industrial-chic elements, artfully blending a home [...]

What a cool example of creative architecture designed for fashion and function! This gorgeous underground house design by Deca Architecture is built right into the idyllic landscape of the Cycladic Islands in Greece. The hill house was designed to withstand the windy climate off the Aegean Sea. It was carved into the earth with just [...]

When Netherlands architecture firm Grosfeld van der Velde Architecten designed this striking forest home in Teteringen, near Breda, they took into account some important must-haves for the homeowners, namely an eco house design. The move toward sustainable architectural design sets the tone for this project among the trees; a wood clad house that is “green” [...]

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Architect Robert M. Cain has wearing his Green thinking cap when he came up with this fabulous, sustainable residential architecture design in Decatur, Georgia. The modern two-storey, 2,800-sq.-ft. RainShine House was named for its innovative design feature, a “butterfly” roof suspended over continuous clerestories that allow for sun-drenched interiors. This unique feature’s inverted winged [...]

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Dezeen’s top ten: this month’s top ten features our most-viewed Dezeen stories about projects for education, from kindergartens to universities and classrooms to sports halls. (more…)

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Indian architecture firm Cadence have completed a residence in Bangalore, India, which features cast-concrete external walls decorated with perforations. (more…)

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Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio has unveiled plans for a 60-storey building with two towers in Hangzhou, China. (more…)

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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a high-rise building for the center of Bucharest, Romania, which has a structural, lattice façade. (more…)

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Oh my. This is what I called fabulous.ness. By Richard Kirk Architects. More pictures here.
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Yes is More by Bjarke Ingels Group
DAC, 2009
Paperback, 400 pages

The monograph has become a fairly predictable format for architecture books, varying, it seems, only in terms of how much content is presented and what the page looks like. Collecting photographs of finished buildings, renderings of unbuilt or soon-to-be-built projects, conventional architectural drawings, descriptive [...]

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We’ve featured a few articles about MR+A’s work in the past, from furniture to prefab, so I was pretty stoked to open the mailbox today and find a copy of Princeton Architectural Press’ recent book, Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction. Published in July 2008, this book runs the gamut of MR+A’s [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve fully enjoyed myself during a New Year’s Eve celebration. Since I live in a young area of the city and work at a company filled with energetic twenty-somethings, there’s always been talk of the latest open bar special or New Year’s party. Don’t get me wrong – [...]

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Unfortunately my iPod has started to die after three years (is that normal?). It’s come to the point where it just won’t hold the charge for more than 15 minutes and I’ve already been faced with the fearful battery/lightning symbol across my screen. I think I felt even worse when I pulled it [...]

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Modern Furniture Design – A Brief History
Near the end of the nineteenth century, many changes were transpiring the world over. Social change, new inventions, and new philosophies helped pave the way for innovations in many different fields, among them furniture design. These new methods [...]

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Gregory La Vardera is an Architect located in Merchantville, NJ. He has been developing plans for modern homes that have something for everyone. There are three great things about his work. You buy plans for houses that are already designed, saving a great deal of money while still having the creative design of [...]

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On the heels of 2007’s opening of the administrative/visitor center at Queens Botanical Garden, the borough I call home has a string of high-profile public projects in the works, many under construction. Below are some details.

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The rear section of the Juan Valdez Flagship on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan used to look like this:

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When I visited the 2004 storefront designed by Hariri & Hariri Architecture for first time two years ago that was the case. The undulating walls gave the space character, but they also [...]

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Charles Pictet Architecte designed this house in Frontenex, France as an addition to an original building. I love how the new structure is visually integrated into the old through the use of concrete.
Personally, the interiors are a little too stark for me to imagine living in them, but it is a beautiful project!
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The W-Window House is the home of the architecture duo, Kentaro Takeguchi and Asako Yamamoto of Alphaville. The architects were interested in blurring the distinction between commercial and residential, as can be seen in several elements – the concrete floors on the entry level, the corrugated metal facade, and the relative blankness of the [...]

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Wonderful modern homes designed by Melbourne architectural and interior design studio Clare Cousins Architects. I love the use of unusual materials and colour particularly the turquoise colour blocking. These are great examples of integration of internal spaces with the outdoors, so important in climates like Australia’s. It’s all to do with sympathetic orientation, materials [...]

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Chinese architect Li Xianggang’s latest project is a house made out of paper tubes, paper boxes, and adhesive tape. Awesome.
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Richard Shaw at the Crawford Partnership has just completed a project to extend a house in Camden, London in the UK. The project was to replace an existing dilapidated small lean-to rear extension with a new glass extension at ground floor level and a new timber and glass pod addition accessed off the existing [...]

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These are fun modern structures for the kids to play with that wont break the bank the way some modern play structures will. They even have furniture to finish off the home.

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In the September 15 issue of New York Magazine, Justin Davidson admirably tackles the building boom of the last 15 years, looking at how buildings have transformed their immediate context. “The Glass Stampede” is a lengthy article (one I’ve yet to tackle, so I can’t comment at length on the text here) with [...]

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Well it seems my blog block may have almost passed…phew! Thanks for all of your encouraging comments!! Look at these beautiful old houses captured by Erika over at Urban Grace. She and her friend Annmarie recently packed the kids in the van and went for a drive around Boston to ’stalk’ some [...]

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Forget what you thought you knew about architecture, because this house will blow your mind; the layout of the house, the views and the sheer architectural artistry and imagination which made it come to life.
The Wilkinson Residence, designed by architect Robert Harvey Oshatz, is a one of a kind piece of architectural art. Located [...]

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