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I like the fluid lines and the openness of Neil M. Denari’s renovation of the Alan-Voo House, which was extended by 1000 sq. ft.
Via Notcot.

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The Micro Compact Home
When you think about getting away, you usually think about a tent and boots or a suitcase and a hotel room, but there are a few enterprising folks who have really pioneered the art of nomadic living, urban or otherwise, with a high degree of comfort. Here then is my list [...]

Laurie Lambrecht for The New York Times

Published: 20080731
A look inside the fifth annual Idea House, a show house presented by Hamptons Cottages and Gardens magazine.
Check out the slideshow HERE

Green Architecture and The Agrarian Garden
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“This 1,000 square-foot weekend cabin, basically a steel box on stilts, can be completely shuttered when the owner is away. Situated near a river in a floodplain, the 20’ x 20’ square footprint rises three stories and is topped by the living room/kitchen. Large, 10’ x 18’ steel shutters can be closed simultaneously using a [...]

These unique modern treehouses are a far cry from your children’s typical backyard playhouses! They’re industrial, sleek, and built just for grown-ups! So, go ahead — grab a hammer and proudly hang your “No Kids Allowed” sign outside the door. An outdoor modern treehouse is a great escape and a tranquil addition to your contemporary [...]

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Wow this is just beautiful architecture. Sun & Light.
It does cost $520 million, hope it is worth it, but that is the amount that Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, agreed Tuesday to pay to attach the Louvre’s name to a museum that it hopes to open in 2012.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Welcome home to the future of modern design! Your house is all modern from the inside out… so why choose a traditional wooden garage door to serve as the entryway? These glass garage doors give new meaning to ‘curb appeal’! Talk about glass with class!

Residential glass garage doors are unique architectural details and are [...]

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.
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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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Dutch designer Tjep. has completed a restaurant for grown-ups that is also fun for children (or maybe the other way round). (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 banded studio drop leaf dining table
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Going minimal on interior design is an elegant way to live. I love the sense of simplicity and the mood that accompanies it in these two interior by Belmont Freeman.

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Vessel USA Inc. has recently introduced Malcolm Leland’s X00 (zoo) industrial design bookends. This new design was inspired by Los Angeles’ famous historical American Cement Building on Wilshire Blvd. In 1961 Malcolm was commissioned by the architect to produce a sculptural façade made of reinforced concrete which had never been done before at that time. [...]

Cost-Effective Building: Economic concepts and constructions (2007) edited by Christian SchittichBirkhauserHardcover, 176 pages

The latest in Detail Magazine’s in DETAIL series presents what could be called “un-Bilbao” buildings; those commissions not blessed with the almost limitless budgets that allow for expensive materials, formal invention, and a HUGE scale. Where previous books in the series looked at [...]

I recently worked on a project at the IAC building designed by Frank Gehry in New York. The video wall in the lobby of the IAC building is one of the world’s largest high-resolution video walls in the world, spanning 120 ft x 11 ft. It was really exciting working on a project on such [...]