Nam June Paik Library
The Nam June Paik Library is a new public art library in Nam June Paik Art Center in Yong-In, Korea, open to the general public in 2011. The library was designed by U.S. based architectural design and...
View ArticleNew Diller Scofidio + Renfro Plans For MoMA Finalize Folk Art Museum Demolition
Liz Diller offered apologetic real talk in the announcement that accompanied the final renderings of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's plans for the Museum of Modern Art's expansion into the contested site...
View ArticleMain Ridge Residence
Photographs by Derek Swalwell and Shannon McGrath The Main Ridge house sits within an established working vineyard located on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. The brief was for a comfortable 4 bedroom...
View ArticleCase Storage Unit
CASE storage explores a form which wraps around and surrounds your belongings. Each shelf protrudes beyond hand stenciled panels to articulate each layer/ segment of this piece. Thoughtfully hand...
View Article9 Architectural Alternatives To Heat Your Home During A Deep Freeze
In case you didn't already know, it was absolutely frigid in the United States earlier this week. But instead of adding to the over-saturation of sensational news stories regarding the "polar vortex"...
View ArticleCentre de Saintè et de Promotion Sociale, Laongo, Burkina Faso
Photographs by: Francis Kéré The 14 hectare Opera Village of Laongo lies approximately an hour away by car from the capital city, Ouagadougou. The construction of an infirmary within the perimeter of...
View ArticleLog In Your Unpaid Internship Hours With This New Architecture App
Feel like your internship is just a euphemism for doing time? Well, this new app, "My IDP" from NCARB, can help you visualize how much time that really is. After years and years spent at school, you...
View ArticleOffices and Industrial Warehouse
Photographs: Eduardo Sánchez A newly-created industrial zone in a peripheral area with no identity, references or language; major road links which cross, divide and model the contemporary landscape; a...
View Article10 Climate-Sensitive Contemporary Homes That Beat Seattle's Rainy Season
Seattle: home to the world's first Starbucks, grunge music, and Boeing's aircraft manufacturing facility. But you can hardly mention the Emerald City without someone bringing up its most...
View ArticleHouse Unimog
The unusual task and the difficult building site was at one hand a big challenge but on the other a big potential. The owner requested a workshop for his Unimog and a small residential unit. The site...
View ArticleCult Movies, Summed Up In Architecture
With the ability to create atmosphere, architecture is, naturally, heavily ingrained in the world of film. Spaces—whether a spooky cabin, a looming concrete building, or a whimsically decorated...
View ArticlePlaza Major
Photography by Luis Asin, Paula Arroyo. The building built by the architects Javier Fresneda and Javier Sanjuan in the Campus de Cantoblanco of La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is a piece of built...
View ArticleIllinois Residence
Located on a rolling and expansive site in a north of Chicago, Illinois, the residence is designed as a collection of single storey pavilions systematically distributed into the landscape. When...
View Article21 Manifestly Magnificent Cantilevers
Ever filled out an online survey that asks the question which super power you would rather have, flying or invisibility? For architects this question probably seems silly, for employing the cantilever...
View ArticleOFFICE BUILDING 310 - ATHENS, GREECE
NAME: Office Building 310 LOCATION: Athens, Marousi AREA: 6000m2 DESIGN: ISV architects
View ArticleA New Reason To Sketch: Jinil Park Makes Scribbly Furniture From Charcoal...
The best drawings start with simple stroke of a pencil—a fact that designer Jinil Park takes quite literally. In fact, for her new "Drawing" furniture series, the basic line becomes the main...
View ArticleMichael Baker Boathouse
Associated Architects’ second ten-year masterplan for King’s included rebuilding the Boathouse, which was previously a small unsightly 1950s building. The site is a focal point in the masterplan and...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Our Top 5 Picks For The Next MoMA Architecture Curator
The architecture community's been on pins and needles waiting for the Museum of Modern Art to announce its new Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. As the previous curator, Barry...
View ArticleMicro Unit
An existing garage, located in the ½ basement of a mid-century home, was converted into a ½ bedroom apartment. Translucent wall panels and large windows, along the north side, extend the space of the...
View ArticleWhy Every Public School Should Have A Design-Build Program
When I was a young girl, I loved building stuff. From Legos to treehouses, sandcastles to sofa cushion forts, getting creative and getting dirty was the way I came to understand the world. When I...
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