Feb 19
All good things end—architecture included. Yesterday, we showed you nine buildings
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Feb 18
One of four shortlisted designs shortlisted for a new arts center in Arnhem, the Netherlands, this t
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One of four shortlisted designs shortlisted for a new arts center in Arnhem, the Netherlands, this twisted cube by Bjarke Ingels Group curved upward at each midpoint to create public park space underneath its eves. Let’s just hope those mirrored louvres don’t light any fires. [Rijnboog]
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Feb 18
Architect Santiago Calatrava has had a tough year. He’s being sued by many, many clients—including his hometown, where an opera house he built is now in shambles. Now, a company selling graphene paint wants to save it.
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Feb 18
You love your pet a lot. You buy the fancy food and only the best toys. You have a collection of sweaters so she doesn’t get cold in winter. But do you love your pet enough to spend $35,000 converting your spacious California home into an animal fantasy land?
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Feb 18
The years between 1880 and 1920 changed American cities completely: From elevators to air conditioning to electricity, the monumental buildings born during this period seemed like living things, humming with life. But as quickly as they rose, many of them were torn down—victims of the same progress that pushed them up.
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Feb 17
All buildings eventually die: Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. But artist Calvin Seibert’s work lasts no longer than a turn of the Earth. Seibert spends his free time sculpting incredible models on the beach—and they’re unlike any sand castles I’ve ever seen.
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Feb 17
Construction workers scramble through scaffolding that surrounds a massive urn-shaped glass atrium,
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Construction workers scramble through scaffolding that surrounds a massive urn-shaped glass atrium, which will eventually house meetings of the Council of the European Union. The building—which was supposed to be finished by 2012—is more than $100 million over budget. [AP Photo/Virginia Mayo]
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Feb 16
What an amazing building this turned out to be, the new Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. Designed by London’s CRAB studio—led by Gavin Robotham and Sir Peter Cook, whose work you might know from Archigram—the 27,000 square-foot structure has just been completed and now faces the hard test of everyday use.
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Feb 14
While it’s been widely known for at least a decade that Frank Gehry is the world’s worst living architect, it’s not entirely clear why some people—mostly very rich clients—haven’t picked up on this yet. The utterly god awful Biomuseo in Panama, an eco-discovery center that cost at least $60 million and took a decade to construct, is only the most recent case in point.
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Feb 14
"I want to set some ground rules for what I think we all should do in L.A., which is to really resist cliché," stated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti last night during a future-focused public event at Occidental College. While "certain publications"—which the mayor did not name, but we all know who they are—like to make L.A. into a story of density vs. sprawl, pedestrian vs. car, he said, it’s never that easy to define us.
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