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International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Headquarters by DesignLAB Architects →
designlabarch.com
IFAW’s mission is to “give a better world for animals and humans”
October 2010
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“Walk on Water! HydroFloors Hide Under-Floor Indoor Pools
Vertical mobility takes on a whole new meaning as these Hydrofloors move up at the push of the button while the water seeps away, then slide back down when you want to turn the room (or patio or porch) back into a sunning or swimming pool.” —
Vertical mobility takes on a whole new meaning as these Hydrofloors move up at the push of the button while the water seeps away, then slide back down when you want to turn the room (or patio or porch) back into a sunning or swimming pool.” —
Walk on Water! HydroFloors Hide Under-Floor Indoor Pools
NURBan Design: Extreme Curved-in-3D Home Construction →
dornob.com
This site always seems to have some interesting arch & design projects…
Dream-Like Desert Home Design for Wide Open-Air Spaces →
dornob.com
Possibly a little far-fetched but this does leave some ‘room’ for interpretation ;)
Tokyo Jewel Box: Tadao Ando →
architecturaldigest.com
Read more: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architects/features/2008/01/ando_article_012008#ixzz13imBwdtk
I hope that as guests enter the house they feel a sense of expectation and excitement,” says Tadao Ando.
Read more: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architects/features/2008/01/ando_article_012008#ixzz13imBwdtk
“The design and built environment today is extremely complex, and the knowledge required to design and build today is far beyond what one or even two professions can handle,” says Denise A. Guerin, Ph.D., IIDA, ASID, FIDEC, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota. “We must create integrated, interdisciplinary teams, and they must start in schools.”
—Higher Learning : Education : Articles : IIDA
Back to the City - Harvard Business Review →
hbr.org
companies are getting a jump on a major cultural and demographic shift away from suburban sprawl…
Autodesk - IDEA Studio residency program →
usa.autodesk.com
The Autodesk
® IDEA Studio is a residency program for designers, engineers, artists, and scholars who are pursuing innovative projects that push design technology to its limits to solve real-life problems.
Overlooking the Embarcadero and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Autodesk IDEA Studio is located in the east wing of the Autodesk Gallery at One Market Street in San Francisco.
We support projects that apply innovative, design-driven solutions to real-life problems in business, society, or the environment. The common thread: all projects must use design software in imaginative ways and have a real-life application.
Upcoming Proposal Submittal Deadlines:
November 1, 2010Spring 2011February 1, 2011Summer 2011
DeltaSync - floating urbanization →
deltasync.nl
DeltaSync is a multidisciplinary design, research and consultancy firm that consists of architects, structural engineers and water management experts. We are specialized in sustainable urban development in delta areas. Our main focus is floating urbanization.
“It would be urban redevelopment based on a food-production system, a “neighborhood food campus”
—Ohio Architects to Help Transform Blighted Neighborhood Into “Food Campus” — Architecture News: Digital Wire - Architectural Record
Inside the Homes of the 20th Century's Most Famous Designers [Slideshows] |Co.Design →
fastcodesign.com
In the past few decades, Leslie Williamson, a San Francisco photographer, traveled throughout the country to see how 14 midcentury designers, architects, artists, and craftsmen designed and decorated their own homes. The result is Handcrafted Modern: At Home With Mid-Century Designers (Rizzoli), an incredibly intimate peek into the daily lives of architects, woodworkers, and furniture collectors, whose homes seem to be perpetually heaped with just the right amount of clutter.
“SEED: Social Economic Environmental Design® is a common standard to guide, evaluate and measure the social, economic and environmental impact of design projects.”
—The SEED Network | Home
What the Design of Cities Teaches Us About the Design of Sites - Fit and Finish →
fitandfinish.ironworks.com
Good article for drawing correlations of urban/city design to website/interaction design and provides another viewpoint - check it out…
Among them:
1. Like buildings, applications break at the joints.
2. Landmarks help us know where we’re going and where we’ve been.
3. In times of trouble ask “What is the user problem we are trying to solve?”
“Reusing an older structure and creating appropriate in-fill is a challenge, and requires significant vision from the architect…”
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AIArchitect This Week | Embracing the Economics of Historic Preservation
Reusing an older structure and creating appropriate in-fill is a challenge, and requires significant vision from the architect. It is often simply easier to wipe out the old and start with a clean slate. But if you take into consideration the entire cost in dollars and energy of this approach with demolition, landfills, creating new infrastructure, and new construction, the challenge is one that the architectural profession needs to embrace more ardently.
…studies show that dollar for dollar, historic preservation is one of the highest job-generating economic development options, as illustrated in the 2005 presentation, “The Economics of Historic Preservation” by Don Rypkema
