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He is not a celebrity architect, not one of the names that show up on shortlists for museums and concert hall projects or known beyond architecture circles. He hasn’t designed many buildings; the one he is best known for is a thermal spa in an Alpine commune. And he has toiled in relative obscurity for the last 30 years in a remote village in the Swiss mountains.
But on Monday the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is to be named the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize, the highest recognition for architects.
Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor, by Robin Pogrebin.
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Copenhagen’s harbour is in the midst of a transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social centre of the city. The superdesigny Harbour Bath has been instrumental in this evolution. The Harbour Bath offers an urban harbour landscape with dry-docks, piers, boat ramps, cliffs, playgrounds and pontoons. As a terraced landscape, the Harbour Bath completes the transition from land to water, making it possible for the citizens of Copenhagen to go for a swim in the middle of the city. Go Denmark!
Opening this weekend in Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson Museum, designed by Abbott Miller and his team over at Pentragram. Can’t wait to go tour it next time we come visit, BB! While I am not really a Harley lover, I admit I do love motorcycles. I used to own a big one back in Europe…
Contemporary architecture by country TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects from the firmly established to the up-and-coming with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Architecture in Switzerland
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I am sitting in the PRESS office of the ICFF and am having my first ‘elevated heartbeat’ moment because of LINK a new product designed by PearsonLloyd. Link is a completely modular room divider system. As versatile as it gets! Fabulous!
Off I go to see what this years International Contemporary Furniture Fair has to offer. So excited. I shall be posting throughout the day. Hoooray! Happy monday everyone!
An article about Annabelle Selldorf, a german architect in NYC, who’s newest structural novelty is currently shaking up the New York architecture world. She is building an elevator alongside a 19-story apartment building that allows residents to park their cars at a lofty height right next to their apartment.
En Suite Parking Included, by Peter Hossli
The Didden Village, Rotterdam by MVRDV, architects. Image by Rotterdam based Photographer Rob’t Hart.
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Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them.
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Memory floor plan is a record of all the rooms Leslie Kwok has lived in since birth—a total of 16 rooms. The scale is proportional to memory.
This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation–from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory–provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. …
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life — the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about. Reengineering our cities will involve more radical change than we are prepared for, he believes, but our hand will be forced by earth crises stemming from our overconsuming lifestyle. “Life in the mid-21st century,” Kunstler says, “is going to be about living locally.” Passionate, profane and funny, this talk will make you think about the place where you live.
Simon Henley’s new book, The Architecture of Parking
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MIMOA.eu is a user generated online guide to Modern Architecture in Europe, providing exact addresses and interactive maps. MIMOA is a personal architecture guide for buildings, interiors, squares, parks and bridges. Going to London, St. Petersburg, Tirana or Bilbao? Every city- or architecture visit is planned within a few mouse clicks.
Prefabrication is everywhere in American home-building. But that doesn’t mean your next house is going to be a stylish, Modernist box. By Witold Rybczynskigs)
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Archi-Tourist is a free, Wiki-based travel guide to contemporary architecture around the globe, started in 2005.
This room above (click here for larger view) has me drooling. Heaven on earth. The rest of the house is here. And yes, it’s in Switzerland.
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Philip Johnson’s Glass House opens to the public for the first time! I am so excited! G, let’s go!
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I was glued to the tv last weekend when I saw two episodes of “design: e²” series on PBS. Design: e²: The Economy of Being Environmentally Concious explores the living vitality of the environment. Eight different topics – from the sustainable architecture to water culture to alternative energy to organic farming to recycled clothing and more. This series is challenging us to live smarter, live greener and live with the future in mind. Make sure to catch this series on tv! Here’s the schedule.
Also, the series comes with an impressive website: design-e2.com
Here’s a post for you G: Japanse Kitchens, featured in the New York Times Style Magazine.
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