reinraus is a mobile space extension for city apartments. It can be installed on any type of window. […]
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Following my call to get more information about the Bicycle Surveillance Hut, Ingeborg has kindly sent me several […]
The MuscleBody is a full-scale prototype of an interior space. Its continuous skin incorporates all its architectural properties […]
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Designed as a security hut for a cycle park by the beach at Den Haag in the Netherlands, […]
Hervé Biele‘s first built project, in Mehrow, just outside Berlin, used to be a grim communist tower block […]
Schlafhaus -sleeping house- is a home extension designed in 1998-2002 by Koeppel & Martinez in Asturias (most beautiful […]
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elasticity is a urban infrastructure designed to support flexible living systems. Competing and interrelated city rhythms keep the […]
Arch-OS constructs a virtual architecture from the activities that take place within the Portland Square Development (Plymouth, UK). […]
Chicago Architecture Club has recently announced the winners of Chicago Prize for 2005: Water Tanks, a competition that […]
Rather than simply designing houses, the Graz-based architects SPLITTERWERK are reinventing the way we inhabit domestic spaces. Between […]
Aegis Hyposurface is an elastic architectural surface made up of small metal plates that are controlled pneumatically and […]
In two recent projects, Rogers Marvel Architects (RMA) has shown that safety can be integrated in subtle and […]
The Pompidou Centre is getting a little brother in Metz (eastern France). Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and Jean […]
Designed by students at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Durmibus is a coach fitted with individual sleeping rooms, […]
Slideshow of Herzog & de Meuron‘s Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg. The Elbphilharmonie will be be stacked on top […]
Lime Works (Factory Series) (1991-94) by Naoya Hatakeyama. Via bldgblog.
18 architects and designers worked together on Hotel Puerta America in Madrid. On the twelfth floor, Jean Nouvel […]
Diller Scofidio + Renfro have just won the 2005 Architecture Design Award (see National Design Award). Founded in […]
Redundant churches in UK towns are increasingly becoming unserious places. Meanwhile, charismatic congregations looking for more room have […]
By the mid-1980s the neighbourhood of Svartlamoen in Trondheim, Norway had become a slum of just 50 houses. […]
Sapporo’s new Police Station, by Kawahito Architects. The first thing I thought was any type of architecture needs […]
The TUE blob has been built according to the so-called ‘Blowing-structure’ method. Jurgen Bey, in collaboration with students […]
The school-capsules devised by Future Systems plug on to conventional buildings, uncovering new spatial and didactic possibilities. The […]
A-Z Wagon Stations are one of Andrea Zittel‘s experiments in mobile living. The units provide a membrane against […]
With the exception of Vatican‘s Saint Peter’s Basilica, i’ve never visited any megachurch in Europe and the churches […]
Dynamic Terrain is an experimental robotic surface that aims to demonstrate a possible future of an interactive system […]
The Seoul Opera House project by Dutch architect group Nox, is placed on an island connected by two […]
Makoto Koizumi‘s 9tubohouse residential house construction project, started in 2002, is primarily known for a remake of “the […]
The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the […]
An eco-friendly Japanese project that can extend the lives of aging buildings won the Bronze Award in the […]
Island in the Mur is a floating exhibition and performance space in the middle of the Mur River […]
Lambert Kamps‘s Light emitting roof tiles allows you to add huge texts, animations and logos on the roof […]
Within the next couple of years over 1500 oil-, gas- and acid tanks will be removed from the […]
Norway’s new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design doesn’t have a permanent building as yet. Instead a […]
Stefan Eberstadt‘s Rucksack Haus (backpack house) is a sculpture but could also be a fully functional dwelling; the […]
Now that Europe seems to open itself to the joys of capsule dwelling, Japan’s love affair with the […]
Gemini Residence, by Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish office Jensen+Jørgensen+Wohlfeldt, is in fact two former grain silos on […]
New York architect Peter Eisenman has planned to fit the Arizona Cardinals new stadium (Glendale, Ariz.) with a […]
Urban Nomad Shelter’s vivid colours and biomorphic forms contradict a stereotype of cardboard-box vagrancy. It was conceived as […]
Gryphon-like extension to an Edwardian house, Melbourne. Via dexigner World Architecture News.