Alex de Stampa makes tricky and delightful animations of famous contemporary structures, remixing the stale static-images circulated on architectural blogospheres. The animations are part of his "1 Week 1 Project", which you can read more about on Visual News.Mirador Building by MVRDV and Blanca... View full entry
Say hello again to Archinect's Kickstart this! It's been a couple months since our last round-up, so let's have a look at our favorite picks for Archinect's curated Kickstarter page.Culture Lounge @ the St. George SI Ferry TerminalAfter a two-year postponement, Staten Island Arts from New York is... View full entry
What used to be the fortress of the family and the individual is now a marketable asset in the economy, which leads to wonder whether the online marketplace for short-term lodging hasn't changed the home for good. [...]
The AIRBNB Pavilion critically engages with the corporations owning the means of our identity, providing the infrastructure for our everyday lives and redefining the private realm and national borders.
— AIRBNB Pavilion
Initiated independently from the Venice Biennale, a concurrent exhibition known as the "AIRBNB Pavilion" will occur in the homes of neighboring Venetians from June 4th to 6th, during the Biennale's opening week. While not apparently affiliated (officially speaking) with Airbnb, the Pavilion means... View full entry
Whether you're a diehard Miesian fan or could care less about the modernist architecture canon, we've heard of ol' Farnsworth time and time again since its completion in 1951 in Plano, Illinois. But Chicago-based artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk want the public to see the... View full entry
For more than a century, [Helsinki] has funded its own statistics bureaus to keep data on the population, businesses, building permits, and most other things you can think of. [...]
Helsinki and three of its neighboring cities are now banding together... Through an entity called Helsinki Region Infoshare, they are bringing together their data so that a fuller picture of the metro area can come into view.
— citiscope.org
As city governments become stronger drivers of infrastructural change, and the idea of a "connected city" becomes imminent, cities must learn how to manage and wield the vast amount of data collected. Parallel developments in city demographics, creating stronger links between cities within a... View full entry
Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City was the densest place on the planet before it was torn down 20 years ago. In this Wall Street Journal interactive, you can take a trip through the city, explore its history and hear from the people who lived there.
The WSJ has developed an impressive rich-media piece on the Kowloon Walled City using photography, video, audio, text and interactive features to tell the stories of the history, environment and inhabitants. View full entry
Was it: Possible for a group of architects, artists, educators, writers, publishers to fly to Shenzhen and start a dialog and call it a Los Angeles Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, a.k.a. LAB A/U? (Yes) A first for architecture and urbanism for Los Angeles? (Yes) Possible to bee line... View full entry
Need inspiration to prepare for next year's eVOLO Skyscraper Competition? eVOLO's latest publication, EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 is now available for pre-order throughout April! Only 1,000 copies worldwide are in stock.As the follow-up to the acclaimed first edition, the hardcover, 628-page book... View full entry
A spoof Guggenheim website, globalguggenheim.org, went live this morning with a satirical “Sustainable Design Competition” for the global museum’s embattled Abu Dhabi branch. The website, a slightly modified replica of the official Guggenheim version, features images of Saadiyat Island, where the museum is to be built, overlayed with the hashtag #futureguggenheim, as well as references to Gulf Labor’s ongoing 52 Weeks campaign. — hyperallergic.com
Starting today, every Monday we'll highlight a few Bustler News posts from the previous week that we think are worth checking out. We'll also include a selection of Bustler's most recent competition listings.Here's Recap #1 for the week of March 17-21, 2014:Winners of the Dubai Architecture School... View full entry
In our next announcement of giveaway winners, Archinect picked five of our readers to receive Paul T. Frankl | Autobiography by Viennese architect and design writer Paul T. Frankl. Launched in the U.S. for the first time by DoppelHouse Press, Frankl had left the manuscript to his autobiography... View full entry
A few weeks ago, Archinect had another monograph giveaway for Arquitectura Viva's "Norman Foster In the 21st Century". The most recent and longest installment in AV's monograph series, the book features 50 works and projects by British architect Norman Foster that were developed in the 21st... View full entry
We're having yet another book giveaway! Five Archinectors will win a copy of the Paul T. Frankl Autobiography, published by DoppelHouse Press and edited by notable design scholar Christopher Long and Aurora McClain from the University of Texas at Austin.On top of that, another winner and their... View full entry
Missed our last monograph giveaway? Here's your next chance. Archinect is giving out another big-name architect's monograph: Norman Foster In the 21st Century. The 328-page book is the longest installment from publisher Arquitectura Viva's monograph series.To be eligible for this random drawing... View full entry
That's a wrap for our Richard Meier Architect: Vol 6 giveaway. In case you missed it, Archinectors had a chance to win a beautiful hardcover copy of Richard Meier's new monograph.Out of over 200 entrants, our two winners are:Jonathan M. - Chicago, ILNathan B. - Seattle, WAAuthored by the architect... View full entry
