Soccer City in Johannesburg, reconstructed by architects Boogertman Urban Edge + Partners and global sports architecture firm Populous, will host the final of the FIFA World Cup which starts next month. (more…)
Photographer Philippe Ruault has sent us his photographs of the newly-completed 100 11th Avenue by French architect Jean Nouvel, an apartment block in Chelsea, New York, with every glass panel of the curtain wall tilted at a different angle. (more…)
Yesterday saw the topping-out ceremony of Herzog & de Meuron’s philharmonic hall on the river Elbe in Hamburg. (more…)
Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some images of the Mexican pavilion designed by Mexican studio Slot. at Shanghai Expo 2010, taken by Iwan Baan. (more…)
There’s to be something happening soon on the property of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Fallingwater that might surprise some: new construction. Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the organization who runs the Wright’s most famous creation, have announced that they have selected a firm to build small on-site cottages to house those involved with the educational programming at Fallingwater. The call went out to six firms, who were tasked with building six very green and very efficient housing units on the grounds, and the Vancouver-based firm Patkau Architects landed the gig with their hill-like, almost invisible concept. Here’s a bit:
Patkau Architects was among six firms chosen by a preliminary selection committee to participate in a Design Competition of Ideas supported through a grant from The Fine Foundation. Participants developed designs for low-maintenance, energy-efficient cottages that should create a sense of community and become a benchmark for the design, construction and operation of small-scale green housing. In addition to using environmentally friendly building materials, the firms’ designs took advantage of natural heating and cooling opportunities to minimize environmental impacts. Each included a basic kitchen, fireplace and shower, and incorporated recycling of kitchen and gray water for use in toilets.
The six submitted concepts will be on exhibition at Fallingwater from mid-June until August 22nd, with construction presumably beginning shortly.
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Rotterdam and Paris architects Ooze have collaborated with artist Marjetica Potrc to create a community garden and water treatment plant on an island in Essen, Germany. (more…)
If you’re not a hockey fan, you might be surprised to learn that there’s still professional hockey being played when it’s 90 degrees outside. If you are a fan, you’ll know that it’s the Philadelphia Flyers vs. our hometown heroes (and who this writer had the good fortune at one time to direct commercials for), the Chicago Blackhawks who will be battling it out for the Stanley Cup. And although sporting debates are usually best handled at bars, talk radio call-in shows, and mayors who make bets using stuff like their local cuisine as the prize, there’s still usually a little left at the end of the day for we artsy nerds. We saw that at the start of the year, ahead of the Super Bowl, as museum directors in Indianapolis and New Orleans started a friendly feud, and now we’re seeing it between architecture critics. On our side, the Chicago Tribune‘s powerful Blair Kamin, who refuses to brutally critique Philadelphia’s architecture into oblivion, but instead takes a more clever route by explaining how all of their city’s important buildings came from Chicago firms anyway (and it just doesn’t seem right to pick on ourselves). On their side, it’s the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s critic, Inga Saffron, who, well, pretty much agrees that her city’s buildings pale in comparison to our own. And so while it might not be the most vitriolic of sports-based debates, it’s fun to see this manly talk branch out a bit into our usually quiet little world.
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Architect Johan Berglund of London studio 42 Architects has designed a restaurant that could be embedded in the side of a hill in Östersund, Sweden. (more…)
American studio Pugh + Scarpa have completed a mixed-use building in Los Angeles clad in perforated metal panels, which open to reveal balconies and glimpses of the brightly-coloured building. (more…)
When people ask our opinion on birdhouses, we tend to point them to Kelly Lamb‘s geodesic delight, a dangling white Fullerdome designed for wrens, finches, and mod-leaning chickadees. But what if your backyard attracts more traditionally minded fowl: robins with a taste for gabled rooves or red-winged blackbirds that break for trompe l’oeil stone? Go straight to Thomas F. Burke, designer and builder of “masterpiece birdhomes.” From his basement workshop in Wilmington, Delaware, Burke creates pole-mounted replicas of historic buildings and clients’ houses that are for the birds. Having grown up in the Pennsylvania town of Chadds Ford, he has carved out a further niche with a series of birdhouses inspired by the work of Andrew Wyeth, including a bird-scaled version of the eerie clapboard dwelling in the background of Wyeth’s famous “Christina’s World.” Not one to be pigeonholed, Burke is at work on more avant-garde structures. “I’m building a birdhouse inspired by Santiago Calatrava‘s 80 South Street Tower project for Manhattan,” he says in the June “Country Comfort” issue of Architectural Digest, which features ten examples of his work (in a story that is not available online). “It will stand about eight feet tall and be mounted on a thin metal rod twelve feet high.”
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