Suspended Over Water
Do you want to take the ultimate lunch break? Forget the Gehry’s tad-overdone (sorry) Conde Nast cafeteria in New York City; head to Bangkok to the Octospider….
Zaha Hadid’s Swirly Furniture (Again)
Another week, another exhibition featuring Zaha Hadid’s swirly, blobby, and cool lacquered-fiberglass furniture . But this latest round, a show sponsored by Rove TV has…
Piece of NYC on Your Bookshelf
Magnum Photos is issuing a new edition of its book New York. This book is giant, at 20X14 inches, and comes with its own little…
Miesian Rocking
Over the years we have been fascinated by the alternate takes on Mies Van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair. It never gets old, although it’s sometimes…
Living in 129 Square Feet, Sovhus 4:12
The Sovhus 4:12 , measuring in at a tiny 129 square feet (12 square meters), is small in all dimensions. But its design power is undiminished…
Useful Tools in a Designer’s Arsenal
As a practicing architect, one of the difficulties I face is the pearl that is the English system of measurement that persists in the United States…
Nesting Doll House
House N is a new house in Oita, Japan , by one of our favorites, Sou Fujimoto Architects. The house is a series of nesting boxes, another departure from…
Sherwood Forest’s Fantastic Treehouse
London-based architects Make created the winning design for the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre (yes, that Sherwood Forest ). Their solution makes this little installation in Madison Square Park look really weak. In fact, Make…
Atelier Tekuto’s Poetic House Experiments
Architectural home designs rarely push the boundaries of actual living: they often boil down to 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Atelier Tekuto is not only…
The Wonders of Concrete
Ahh, the wonders of concrete. A technology invented by the Romans continues to astound me with what is possible. In the case of dupli.casa, it…