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South Brisbane Welcomes Twin Tower Development

2013-02-19T20:52:00-05:00

South Brisbane’s renewal is well underway and the suburb could soon become home to a landmark $50 million twin tower development known as Arena. The contemporary 12-floor twin tower apartment buildings is slated for 9 Edmonstone Street and has been designed to allow pedestrian access to Browning Street via a dedicated cross block link.

The UK’s Most ‘Outstanding’ Green Building

2012-12-20T20:23:00-05:00

The building, known as 1 Angel Square, has been designed to deliver a 50 per cent reduction in energy consumption compared to The Co-operative’s current Manchester complex and an 80 per cent reduction in carbon. This will lead to operating costs being lowered by up to 30 per cent.

Phoenix rising as Beijing builds

2012-10-18T17:49:00-04:00

“China is evolving into a construction superpower,” says Fang Zhenning, a scholar who lectures at the architecture school of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The country is expected to account for one-fifth of worldwide building by the year 2020, Fang says. In the battle to build ever-faster, some architects have resorted to digitally cloning designs that can be replicated time after time.

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Details" Pinterest Board

2012-07-27T14:28:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Details.

↑ Saifi Residence Staircase in Beirut, Lebanon by .PSLAB

↑ The Offices of Buck O'Neill Builders, Inc in San Francisco, CA by jones | haydu

↑ MNA Office and Design Studio in New York, NY by Michael Neumann Architecture

↑ MONTREAL in Guadalajara, Mexico by JAPI Estudio de Arquitectura

↑ Slide Library / Expanded Alliances in New York, NY by marble fairbanks

↑ West Hollywood Residence in West Hollywood, CA by (fer) studio, LLP

↑ Loft of Frank and Amy in New York, NY by Resolution: 4 Architecture

↑ Central Harlem STD Clinic in New York, NY by Stephen Yablon Architect PLLC

↑ Signal/To/Noise in Detroit, MI by M1/DTW

(Cover pic: J-Pop Culture Center in San Francisco, CA by Kwan Henmi...

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Architect Sure!" Pinterest Board

2012-07-20T13:44:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Architect Sure!.

↑ Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Shelter in Taliesin West, AZ by David Frazee

↑ Surfhouse in Hermosa Beach, CA by XTEN Architecture

↑ West Newton in Boston, MA by Butz Klug Architecture

↑ Inside-Out House in Marina del Rey, CA by glynn designbuild

↑ Beijing Planetarium in Beijing, China by amphibianArc

↑ Toni Stabile Student Center in New York, NY by marble fairbanks

↑ Villa London in Lluchmayor, Spain by CMV Architects

↑ Archohm Studio in New Delhi, India by Archohm

↑ Round Tower in Gloucestershire, GB by De Matos Ryan

(Cover pic: Stöðin Roadside Stop in Borgarnes, Iceland by KRADS, Photo: Kristinn Magnússon)

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A Dissident Did Our Guesthouse

2012-05-29T14:08:00-04:00

It is one thing to own a dozen original “Zodiac Head” sculptures by the Chinese artist, dissident, and human-rights cause célèbre Ai Weiwei. It is quite another to live in a house partially designed by him. But such is the good fortune of two Columbia County art collectors, who six years ago commissioned the Swiss firm HHF Architects and its scruffily bearded collaborator to build them a home with a detached guesthouse and garage on a pastoral 40-acre plot upstate.

Glowing Red Garnet Pavilions Educate Travelers on Italy’s Timmelsjoch Road

2011-12-26T16:31:58-05:00

Perched high above the town of Moos in the Italian Alps is a glowing pair of garnet-shaped structures that serve as a stop along the Timmelsjoch High Alpine Road. Modeled on the geological rock formations found in the Passeiertal valley and designed by Werner Tscholl, the pavilions are the first structures to be built along the road as part of the Timmelsjoch Experience.

Brick Swarm

2011-11-27T19:05:03-05:00

Semi-autonomous flying robots programmed by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler "will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks" next month—starting 2 December 2011—at the FRAC Center in France. The result, they hope, will be a "3.5 meter wide structure."

The 6 Most Dubious “Green” Projects from Dubai

2011-08-01T17:11:22-04:00

Despite a handful of genuinely sustainable developments taking place in Dubai, the Emirate has an embarrassing reputation for realizing some of the world's most absurd "green" projects. Inhabitat has compiled a list of our favorite to poke fun at, including the world's tallest tennis court.

O’ Mighty Green

2011-06-08T07:43:27-04:00

0. Introduction
Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (...) saviour of the universe and the humanity. And, like God, it has millions of believers. Since we humans are relatively simpleminded and suspicious and need evidence before belief can become conviction, Green has come to represent sustainability; has become its incarnation in the human world. But sustainability, like God, might not have a form, nor a colour…

1. Emancipation
In a desperate attempt to give shape to an all-encompassing ideology the Green proves to work as the quickest and easiest representation of sustainability. The Green is the only symbol able to keep pace with today’s lack of patience and hunger for images; a Lady Gaga-Sustainability: effective, noticeable, creative, sensationalist. In a persistent effort to become the allegory of Sustainability, Green has been emancipated as its caricature.

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