February 2011 Blog Posts (30)

Breathing Factory

Any architect worth his/her salt will take into account how a building will be experienced by a variety of users. This is what intrigued me about this factory redesign by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates. The building is a laboratory for testing medical devices,…

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Added by Tyson on February 8, 2011 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Maritime Culture & Pop Music Center

This rainbow-hued proposal by Kubota & Bachmann Architects received an honorable mention in the competition to design a pop culture center in…

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Added by Springer on February 8, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

The Evening Gown

The Baljurk – “gown” or “evening dress” – sits in the historical center of The Hague, at a corner that used to follow a curvilinear stream, and has since been made into an… Continue

Added by Springer on February 7, 2011 at 3:21pm — No Comments

Archollective: New Online Pin-Up Space for Architects

Architects and architecture students are always looking for someone to critique their work. The more feedback you get during your design process the better your overall project will be at the end. Archollective is a new site to give designers additional feedback when working on their architecture project. This web application gives you the option to critique other…

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Added by Pat McLoughlin on February 7, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

MASSAR DISNEY CENTRE

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Added by Saira Mansoor on February 7, 2011 at 6:27am — No Comments

Zagreb Dance Center

Croatia based 3LHD Architects was commissioned to renovate a movie theater that had sat abandoned for fifteen years in historical downtown Zagreb. The old theater was turned into the… Continue

Added by Springer on February 3, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

The Institute of Peace---I took this photo last month on the way out of Washington D.C. Amazing building!

Added by Dorothy Durbin on February 3, 2011 at 9:12am — 1 Comment

SAG

This is an interesting little project by J. Mayer H. Architects. It's in a place I've never been to, created by an architect I've never heard of before today, two things that make it difficult for me to grasp onto the project. I do, however, find myself inspecting it in detail. …

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Added by Tyson on February 2, 2011 at 9:45pm — 3 Comments

Oriental Art Center

While it resembles a beautiful giant flower in Shanghai, the Oriental Art Center holds three auditoriums: the 330 seat chamber music hall, the 1054 seat lyric…