February 2011 Blog Posts (30)

After recently writing about the Rainbow House, I was amused to find another playful home design.  The…

This eye-catching California home design is by Paris-based MUT Architecture.  Z-House mimics its neighboring outcropping of rock, and is supported by the…

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has done it again.  In collaboration with TNT Nuuk,…

I think one of the reasons that many are skeptical about environmental design is because they think its terribly complex and costly. It does take a bit more effort on the front end, but it's definitely not rocket science. This architecture by Guz Architects…

Media is so fully integrated into our lives that it doesn't seem very surprising that it would be featured in architecture as well. This riveting design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro makes you realize how much our everyday activities and…

Ah, treehouses.  If I ever build myself a dream home, I'm going to have to make it a treehouse, just to get the itch out of my system. :)

Finca Bellavista is…

In the article “On Sustainable Architecture”, i mentioned that it has begun to be emphasized that a construction now called as sustainable since 1990’s  an organism contributing cultural and economical background of the area beside with its morphological properties. It is…

Created by Carlos Ferrater and Carlos Escura of the Office of Architecture in Barcelona,…

This project is being developed under the State Lake Restoration Programme of the State of Maharashtra. India.

The primary aim of…

#10 - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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New artist and designer Aimee Pegram has created cozy cocoon-like piece that she calls “…

On a busy, noisy street in London sits the Rainbow House, a playful oasis from the seriousness of its surroundings.  Inside, the Rainbow House has a circular bed…

As with many things, the name you give a project will often have a significant impact in both its design and implementation. It will also impact how others view the project. This project by XTEN Architecture is called the Sapphire Gallery. A word like…

The competition proposal by architectural firm Snøhetta for the…

West 8, an urban design and landscape architecture firm, collaborated with Toronto-based firm…

This is a project that really exudes the process of architectural design. You can almost feel the xacto knife and chipboard beginnings of this architecture. Although many are turned off by sharp edges and geometries, there is something to be said for architectural…

Home of the Architect Warren Schwartz.

Cantilever is a clumsy word, reflecting a basic problem for designers - how to achieve a satisfactory appearance from an unit which includes two types of structure, cantilever and suspended span. The requirements of these are…

#3 - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

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I try not to stray too much from the subject of architecture in my blogs. I think architecture is what most of the people who frequent this site are interested in as well as myself. I did, however, feel a desire to talk about the two men in the picture above for a brief moment. I hope the…

I usually try to stray from commenting on architecture this formalistic, but I was fascinated with it on this basis. They got the story backward!  The idea of the Trojan Horse was that it was something expected on the outside, while a surprise was stowed on the inside.…