Perhaps reflecting on infrastructure failures in cities like Montreal and Athens, planners for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics sought to embrace the temporality of the event and extend its […]
Buildings and houses constructed out of recycled plastic bottles have been around almost as long as the plastic bottle itself. Bottles are lightweight, easy to handle, and generally cost nothing. […]
Shaping light is something that seems all too simple for Architect Tadao Ando. Commissioned in 1987 and located in Ibaraki-Osaki, Japan, the Church of Light is a prime example of […]
Reading Between the Lines is a project by Gijs Van Varenbergh, built in 2011 and located in Borgloon, Belgium. Meant to convey the town’s relationship with it’s churches, the structure […]
Does anybody really have an issue with nostalgia? I sure hope not. Every so often we look to those that came before us for both wisdom and inspiration. The successes […]
The German Chinese Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo Shanghai (by Markus Heinsdorff in collaboration with MUDI) brings together a wide spectrum of materials which evoke age old traditions mixed […]
The Simma House, located in Egg, Austria and designed by the architect George Bechter, marries three approaches to sustainable design: the adaptive reuse of an existing structure, the nearly exclusive […]
Heatherwick studio is a design firm that clearly has an interest in making architecture that involves the user in a physically interactive way. From their Rolling Bridge, to their Longchamp […]
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