Featured Blog Posts – January 2011 Archive (25)

There is something I find so exquisitely graceful about trees and leaves.  I’m drawn to them, and I’m drawn to everything that resembles them.  Leaf House is a pavilion for a private residence in northern Sydney, Australia.  A design by the London-based firm…

This ingenious little pedestrian bridge was designed by Heatherwick Studio to span an inlet of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin in London.  The…

The Lifepod project was initially conceived in 1997 by architect and designer…

AquiliAlberg Architecture and Design Studio has created a dynamic proposal…

La Cornette is a gorgeous country house in Quebec, Canada designed for two families to come together on holidays and celebrations.  The house's…

I would say it's easy to grasp how one would design architecture to house human activities, but very difficult, on the other hand, to design architecture that is built to house images.  I think if you take a look at any given movie theater you'll see…

I think every architect should have one of these. Not this house, per se, but a laboratory for their ideas. This project is built on a plot of land owned by Randy Brown (of Randy Brown Architects) and intended this architecture…

Yep, another treehouse.  I always wanted one as a kid, but it just wasn’t possible.  Now I delight in the adult twists on treehouses designed by contemporary architects.

The…

Limits in design can sometimes be viewed as, well, limiting. I have, however, found them to be liberating. Without limits or constraints, it would be next to impossible to design something. This sport facility by Salto AB is a great example of looking at site…

+House is a summer housing project designed by WE Architecture located in Puerto Cayo, Equador.  The design takes two linear and rectangular volumes and…

Established in 2005, Marmol Radziner Prefab is an extension of the award-winning Los Angeles-based architecture and construction firm Marmol Radziner + Associates.

Prefabrication is quite important for building green, sustainable houses.…

The name of a project can often tell you all you will need to know about it, even before the design process begins. This project by MAD seems to be an example of that type of mentality. It was inevitable that the China Wood Sculpture Museum would…

I visited the Dali Museum years ago in Figuereste, a small town near Barcelona. It’s a completely crazy place with its architecture and the pieces inside! I noticed that another Dali Museum was opened last week in Florida on 11th January. Salvador Dali Museum building is just what expresses Dali and his surrealist art. It is inspired both by Dalí’s surrealist…

From the remains of a single story home on a corner lot rise the layers of architecture that create the Jigsaw Residence.  Designed by the architect David…

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During the day, facade structures with their windows and material combinations grant a specific building image…

The simple and other-worldly architectural design for the…

Frustrated with the current Chinatown, which it considers boring, redundant, out-of-date, and lifeless, Bejing-based architecture design firm MAD…