All Blog Posts Tagged 'architect' (67)

Near a forest on the outskirts of Katowice, Poland, sits the Broken House, designed by local architecture firm KWK Promes.  The somewhat questionable…

Located at the end of the unspoiled Valsertal valley, 1,250 meters up into the Swiss Alps, Villa Vals peaks out from the face of the mountainside near the thermal baths of Vals. …

If taking a nature-loving trip to the “Magic Village” of Tepoztlan, Morelos, located just the other side of the mountain range south of Mexico City sounds like fun to you, TuboHotel is the place for you.  Designed by…

This intense and dramatic concept for a Revolutionary Opera Theater in Vienna is the work of blogger and artist Tang Fei.  The flamboyant theater…

#1 - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

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Dream big.  Really big.  The New Orleans Arcology Habitat, or NOAH, totals 30 million square feet and will stand 1,200 feet high.  The…

I’d love to see more pictures of this house and its layout.  This is the Mebius house by Tokyo-based Atelier Tekuto.  The home is designed to embrace nature and impart its beauty to the home’s inhabitants.  But what a task! …

This brilliant museum makes a not-so-subtle point that every architect needs to confront at some point. Sometimes you just need to flip architecture on it's head to make sense of it. While this project by GMP Architekten is the most literal iteration of…

#10 - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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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,…

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. …

Charcoal House sits deceptively in a residential neighborhood in Ontario, Canada.  Designed by architect atelier Reza Aliabadi…

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

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…

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…

Sometimes as an architect the best way to further your design is to forget what you know. Design Initiatives proposed this little stand alone hotel room to stand atop Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.  This elegant little structure really makes me…

This is a lovely house by Pitzo Kedem Architects. Although the images are very compelling, I'm sad to say it's the latest addition to the many projects I will probably never get a chance to visit in my lifetime. That's not to say it's not worthy of a visit, merely that an…

#4 - How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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This lilypad has enough room for Kermit the Frog and 49,000 of his friends!

This interesting concept is by France- and Belgium-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures. …

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'd like to start a series of posts that remind us to give thanks for some of the great predecessors that came before us. I said in another post that no architect is an island. In addition to depending on each other, we also depend on past inspiration to develop present and future designs. Past architects have given us a foundation with which to build. So we start with a…