Good old radiators!
I don’t have a radiator last 10 years. It is one of the good things – and bad things – of living in southern California. It is good because I love hot weather. But every now and then, I miss cold weather when you watch a movie under a blanket with your warm tea
Blue Condo, NYC
Architect Bernard Tschumi’s Blue condominium tower located on the Lower East Side, New York. Designed with an original envelope pattern sets the structure apart from surrounding buildings, thus adding a bit of an eclectic attitude to a normally dreary skyline. I guess it looks better in the architect’s rendering
T-Bone House
Zlatko Antolovic and Alexander Wendlik’s practice COAST completed the T-Bone house last summer. At a modest 150 square metres, this family home near the German town of Waiblingen mixes environmentally friendly technology like Geothermal heating
Deck Istanbul Products
It is very nice to hear success stories about new entrepreneurships. One of my friends, interior designer Ugur Gurbuzoglu, founded Deck Products in 2007 with a team of industrial designers, interior designers, and architects.
Shades of “off-white”
Yesterday afternoon, I was listening my favorite radio channel, KCRW, and the conversation was about the exterior paint color for Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York which has been under a major restoration project since 2005.
Arts centre by Tadao Ando
Architect Tadao Ando has designed a new contemporary arts centre in Venice for luxury goods tycoon François Pinault. The project will convert the historic Punta della Dogana building into a space for part of the François Pinault collection and will open in 2009.
World Day of Architecture 2007
Today, October 1, 2007, we celebrate the “World Day of Architecture”. To all of you I wish a productive and green architecture day! We should not limit the good work for one day; it should be spread around the whole year. Here is the letter from Gaëtan Siew who is the president of the international [...]
Leave the Alps alone
When you say Switzerland, the first thing that will come to my mind is the Alps, beside the chocolate, watches, and the banks of course! Now here is the bad news…
The Concrete House
Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers call a “commitment to living sustainably”. With renewable energy systems, a green roof, rainwater harvesting and waste minimization, the design tries to prove that concrete is an environmentally [...]
4D Designs
When I first saw the photograph, I thought it is a tree with lighting around. But it is not! This is an eye catching, and creative light. “My mission is to create innovative designs and products by using only the minimum in materials and processes” says Mike Radford in his web site, 4D Designs.
Prototype of Universal Toilet
Here is a different approach to handicap toilets. The Universal Toilet is a flexible toilet design, by Changduk Kim & Youngki Hong, useable by both individuals with disabilities and the general population that removes the social stigma of handicapped facilities.
