Apartment building in Köln-Sürth, Germany by Chris Schroeer-Heiermann, 2009.
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Apartment building in Köln-Sürth, Germany by Chris Schroeer-Heiermann, 2009.
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ArchiExpo
"The Virtual Architecture Exhibition" (added to sidebar under architectural links::guides)
NYC BigApps
Gallery of the winners and other entries in the competition to develop "a software application...in keeping with New York City's drive to become more transparent, accessbile, and accountable." (via WNYC)
Glass House Twilight Tours
Ever wanted to see Philip Johnson's Glass House at night? Now you can. Tickets are now on sale for 2010 season.
Here are some photos of Donnybrook Quarter in London, England by Peter Barber Architects, 2006. Photographs are by suburbanslice.




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hi, i have just started a blog about architecture as i am also an architect. please check it out at www.nicebuildings.blogspot.com and please leave comments to help me make this blog a success and a useful source of info for others
Those buildings are really interesting; they look a little bit New Mexican to me. I wonder if the architects were inspired by the Taos Pueblo or by visiting Santa Fe. The buildings in the Donnybrook Quarter have flat roofs, are connected to each other, and are of somewhat varying sizes and shapes, which are all characteristics of pueblo style architecture, which I love. What a fun design Peter Barber Architects came up with for the people of London to use and enjoy.
These public spaces don't seem very activated by architecture. I hope they are well used in the future.
Christopher, +1.
I was going to say... in the last two photos, where are the people?
The following text and images are courtesy studio octopi for their extension to the Victorian end of a terrace house located in North London, UK. The project is shortlisted for a 2010 AJ Small Project Award.








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Interesting project. It brings more prospect to this building which already has a great refuge. More about prospect and refuge check
experiencing architecture
Love it. Great inside with light apertures above, very successful interface with garden. Also love the door opening like that. But the cladding in photo 3 looked a little tacky. Thanks for this post.
Robert Webber
The Hegarty Webber Partnership
There is an article in an old "World of Interiors" featuring a small country house that uses an unadorned container on the grounds to house the library. My town would never approve.
Ebenezer - Your town wouldn't approve of a backyard addition like this either? It's one thing to have restrictions arising from form-based codes that pertain to the building front, but another to do the same for backyards or alleys.
Last night my friend and old CCNY classmate Matt informed me about NYIT professor Michele Bertomen's house under construction in Williamsburg. The distinctive design at 351 Keap Street (address via Curbed) is certainly one to consider for my guidebook to NYC contemporary architecture, because it's a project actually built from stacked shipping containers, not just envisioned and unbuilt, as so many designers have tried to realize shipping container architecture in recent years.


i created a development in architecture one year ago for 2050: http://rokdd.de/t/leben-2050/ .. I did not know the dvelopements you showed! This is great!
Are you sure that all of those things disadvantages? Possibly opportunities...
Check out the Freitag HQ in Zurich, CH - architect: Spillmann Echsle Architects
http://www.danda.be/gallery/freitag_flagship_store/
Henry - Part of my point was finding opportunities in what can be seen as disadvantages, more the size constraints and cold interior than the appearance. It's one thing to just stack containers, it's another to design them into something habitable and aesthetically interesting.
m.gribben - I actually posted about it a few years ago in relation to a non-container building stacking up in Chicago.
Very Cool and exiting development.
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Here are a couple Tadao Ando-designed buidlings, photographed by etogh33.


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this is awful, Architects get driven to remove features to avoid critiscism, the result is presented above.
The Architect's Newspaper features an article I wrote for their next issue on a place I've written about before, Jacob Javits Plaza at Lafayette and Worth Streets in Lower Manhattan. "Plaza Redo, Again" describes the GSA's decision to remove Martha Schwartz's curly green benches and planted mounds in order to undergo repairs to the roof of the parking garage below the plaza. A design by Michael Van Valkenburgh will take its place.


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Architectour.net
"International contemporary architecture database." (added to sidebar under architectural links::guides)
Chicago Architecture: A Critical Guide by Edward Keegan
"THE iPhone App for better understanding and visiting the buildings of the America's First City for Architecture." (Available at iTunes.)
Drawing Ideas in Perspective
An essay by Alexander Severin on "the absence of spatial representation in architectural discourse."
:output award
An "international student award for young talents in design and architecture." Deadline is February 15.
Unhappy HipstersCommentary on photography in Dwell Magazine, subtitled, "It's lonely in the modern world." (Thanks HB!)
Decades from now 2009 may be seen as the year that vertical farming started to take hold. Time magazine named vertical farming one of last year's 50 best inventions. Proposals seemed to arrive almost weekly. And whole blogs -- or parts thereof -- are devoting themselves to the subject.




This ideas seems to be popular at the moment and it is worth investigating, but without any real lighting analysis the designs are fanciful.
Just as architects who can't cook should not design kitchens (Frank Lloyd Wright), architects who can't farm should not design gardens.
Great article..
I realy believe vertical agriculure will come into its own in towns and cities. Schools, hospitals and housing estates could have their own vertifarms, tended by a new generation of vertical farmers.
No pesticides, no pollution, no soil and no weather concerns.
In less than 20 years sustainable urban vertical farms will be commonplace
I agree with Daniel.
I'm probably not alone in the thousands of arch grads of the past couple years in saying that I had a classmate who's thesis was this topic, and he had a hell of a time convincing his committee that the sun/light worked correctly. He may have had an overly-practical thesis committee, but his building did work at the end of it. And it was super boring "looking" compared to all of these fanciful/blobby ideas coming out - in a two-dimensional magazine-splash kinda way. But that may be what is needed to get lots of plants to grow in a tall building.
The idea of urban ag is certainly gaining traction, but I'm still curious about some of the practical aspects...how will commercial and residential functions of buildings coexist with agricultural activities? How will workers pick vegetables and haul them out when others are working and living in buildings? It's looking like the technology is getting there, but it's really going to require another level of systems thinking as well to make the more industrial side function.
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Urban Farming and Vertical Farming is not synonymous. Urban Farming has a lot of potential for shortening fossil fuel dependent logistics of food production and strengthens small scale (relative to ADM, nigh-microscopic scale) farming. There is plenty of space available to create agriculture horizontally in abandoned lots and over the wide swaths of pavement and parking. Even in New York (Queens anyone?) it can work, and on the tiniest of scales, does work. Should the government decide to (in some combination) stop subsidizing corn and other monocultural factory farms and start subsidizing fruits and vegetables, urban farming will happen.
Vertical farming works about as well as the Missle Defense Shield or communism - great in theory, impossible in execution.
What's not shown in any of those images;
• Vertical Circulation - water and soil weigh a lot, a dumbwaiter ain't gonna cut it.
• Method of Heat Dissipation (skyscrapers are load dominated, not skin dominated)
• Sun Shading - except in winter, the sun is above your head, meaning you've chosen the least efficient planting layout combined with the least efficient (not stacked) building layout.
I understand it looks cool, I understand why college kids in studio dig it (looks cool), but I haven't seen one thing out there that has convinced me the laws of physics somehow work differently if you stack plants in a skyscraper.
Hmm.
Looks great, but I am not sure I can see urban agriculture working. You simply cannot mesh a metropolitan and regional area into one.
What can work are greenroofs or roofscapes or whatever you want to call them
Maybe we should stop dreaming about sci-fi future populations that may not work on focus on something that will.
Bella:rubber flooring
The "WORKac" image is striking similar to an historical rendering out of Delirious New York (complete with a couple stories having farm activities)!
Here are a couple views, outside and inside, of the Madinat Al Zahara Museum and Foundation Offices in Córdoba, Spain by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. Photographs are by pajaritos13.


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