Architects Takashi Seisho and Akinari Tanaka have completed a house in Hakodate, Japan, where triangular, concrete slabs in the facade mask views of neighbouring houses. (more…)
Los Angeles architects Atelier Hitoshi Abe have sent images of their duplex home to be built in New Orleans for actor Brad Pitt’s charity Make it Right. (more…)
Italian designer Sergio Calatroni has converted the interior of an attic room in Milan for a group of musicians. (more…)
With Frank Gehry out and Ellerbe Becket in on Forest City Ratner’s recession-battered Atlantic Yards project, no one is sure what the mixed-use development will look like. With the estimated price tag approaching $5 billion, the Atlantic Yards is now back in public review, even though there’s nothing to look at just yet. According to The New York Observer, the new renderings won’t be ready until fall, after the the public re-review period has closed.
“We do not expect a formal review process [of the renderings] by the public,” said state official Darren Bloch at a public hearing last week. “We expect to see the renderings by Forest City Ratner; we expect ourselves, the city, to weigh in on those to some degree, but we do not expect a formal presentation to the public to accept comment from that.” Can they do that? “The argument of the officials and Forest City Ratner is that the original approval from 2006 provided for design guidelines,” notes the Observer‘s Eliot Brown. “And so long as the arena falls in line with those (which they say it will), then they are doing what is required of them at this point.” For up-to-the-minute updates on the project, including video of the “orchestrated disruption” at Wednesday’s meeting, check out Norman Oder‘s tenacious “watchdog” blog, Atlantic Yards Report.
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A pavilion consisting of thatched, conical towers designed by MOS architects has opened outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (more…)
Another project by recent Dezeen regulars Suppose Design Office: this time a house in Matsuyama, Japan, designed to offer a view of the surrounding scenery from every room. (more…)
We hope that we’ve spent enough time warning you that there won’t be any good news coming out of the economics side of the architecture industry anytime soon. Following the American Institute of Architects‘ release of the depressing Consensus Construction Forecast and a continuing below-positive stagnation Billings Index, the AIA has just released their latest numbers and things have dropped once more, down five points from the very, very slight uptick last month. While this is certainly not the type of falling we were seeing more than a year ago, it still has to be pretty psychologically painful to have to face another downward trend.
“It appears as though we may have not yet reached the bottom of this construction downturn,” AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker said. “Architecture firms are struggling and concerned that construction market conditions will not even improve…next year.”
German architect Ole Scheeren of Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed a skyscraper for Bangkok in Thailand. (more…)
Bodegas Protos winery by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (above) is one of six buildings shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009. (more…)
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