Prefab truck and shipping container win healthcare facility design comp
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Stu RobartsBuilding Trust International has announced the winners of its 2014 Moved To Care competition.
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Saudi Arabia Prepares To Build The World's Tallest Building
• http://www.businessinsider.com, ADAM CHANDLERConstruction on Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower, which will be one whopping, expense kilometer tall, is set to commence next week, according to local reports.
Could you live in a home the size of a parking space?
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam WilliamsA team of students and professors at Georgia's Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) recently unveiled a tiny house prototype cited as the future of urban living.
A Plan to Build Skyscrapers That Barely Touch the Ground
• Wired.comThere are more people, buildings, and landmarks per square inch on Manhattan than any other chunk of geography in America.
More than just an RV: ESCAPE injects some style into the tiny house movement
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam WilliamsPerhaps due to the fact that the challenge of designing viable tiny homes pushes architects to come up with creative space-saving solutions, the tiny house movement is bursting with great ideas.
Sustainable home can be built in four days using only a screwdriver
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam WilliamsFrench architectural firm Multipod Studio recently unveiled a new sustainable house prototype that's lightweight, recyclable, and promises to be an inexpensive purchase and extremely efficient to run.
Abandoned Paris Metro Stations, Reborn as Nightclubs and Public Pools
• http://www.wired.com, By Keith BarryIn a city whose sewers attract tourists, it’s no surprise that a mayoral candidate is proposing to turn abandoned subway stations into art galleries, nightclubs, restaurants, and pools.
Sri Lankan apartment block to be world's tallest vertical garden
• gizmag.comClearpoint Residencies, based in Kotte just outside Colombo, will be the first sustainable high-rise apartment complex in the country, with solar panels for electricity generation, a waste water recycling system and planted facades.
How to pack a whole lot of living into 221 square feet
• treehugger.comOne of the key limitations in the design of many tiny houses is the fact that they have to be built on trailer chassis.
In our recent tour of IKEA's store in Brooklyn, we kept thinking back to a 2011 lecture from ...
• businessinsider.comIn our recent tour of IKEA's store in Brooklyn, we kept thinking back to a 2011 lecture from Alan Penn of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
The house that can survive a TSUNAMI: Waves flow through the building...
• dailymailThe unusual ‘Tsunami House’ is located in Washington’s Camano Island Two floors are placed 2.7m above ground and supported by steel structure During a flood, glass panels break to let water flow through lower levels This disperses the force and re
A Teeny House Filled With Clever, Space-Saving Contraptions
• http://www.wired.com, By Joseph FlahertyTrap doors and secret passages are usually associated with moldy, ancient castles or creaky old money manor houses, but Spanish architecture firm Elii has managed to pack a tiny, 620 square-foot attic loft in Madrid with a bevy of space-saving contra
OTIS tiny house offers a new take on the American Dream
• gizmag.comStudents at Vermont's Green Mountain College Renewable Energy and Ecological Design class have produced an off-grid tiny house that's billed as a new take on the American Dream.
An Architect Built This Stunning, 196-Square-Foot 'Tiny Home' In Idaho
• Business InsiderBoise, Idaho-area architect Macy Miller traded her 2,500-square-foot residence for a 196-square-foot home she built herself after dealing with a long and complex foreclosure settlement.
Gizmag talks to the creators of The Tiny Project – less house, more life
• gizmag.comFollowing in the footsteps of the Tiny Tack House and Pocket Shelter, American web designer Alek Lisefski has recently finished building his very own tiny house on wheels.
Watch: How Super-Efficient Nanomaterials Could Herald a Design Revolution
• Wired.comThe Great Pyramid of Giza is 174 meters tall and weighs 10 megatons.
"Mount Rushmore" building morphs into human faces at Sochi Winter Olympics
• gizmag.comLondon architect Asif Khan's 2,000 square-meter (21,500 sq ft) pavilion has been called the “Mount Rushmore of the digital age,” and its aim is to “make people the face of the Olympics.”
Super-yacht not big enough? 'Seasteads' offer libertarians the vision of floating cities ...
• independent.co.ukFor (very) wealthy libertarians, seasteads – floating cities – might be the way forward, with their ambition of 'guaranteeing political freedom and enabling experimentation with alternative social systems'
Architectural inspiration (8 talks)
• http://www.ted.comMaster architects share their vision for buildings that inflate, float, twist and glitter, while artfully addressing the challenges faced by their residents, their cities and the planet.
SOAK "eco-bathhouse" concept calls for shipping container-based bathing
• gizmag.comShipping containers have been used to revolutionize housing, and have also given rise to wacky ideas like an extreme sports theme park.
Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community
• ted.comDiébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture… He wanted to go home to Gando in Burkina Faso, to help his neighbors reap the benefit of his education.
Hivehaus flat-packed honeycomb home could be the bee's knees
• gizmag.comSimilar to other micro-homes we have looked at, the Hivehaus comes flat-packed, is self-contained and appears relatively easy to build.
Experimental Website Lets You Download Amazing House Blueprints for Free
• http://www.wired.com, By Liz StinsonPaperhouses is a platform that allows people to download open source blueprints from architects, like this house from Tatiana Bilbao.
Dubai adds a frozen cafe to its list of opulent desert wonders
• http://www.dvice.com,Dubai is already home to the world's tallest building (for now), an indoor ski resort and numberless other sights, but clearly the list wasn't good enough. A new café has opened in the extravagant desert city, one which touts itself as "a reason to g
Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup stadium is straight out of sci-fi
• dvice.comKnown for her futuristic, curvy and geometrically intricate architectural creations, Zaha Hadid seems like the perfect candidate to design the stadium hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Here Are The Spectacular Plans For A Floating Airport In London
• businessinsider.comLondon's Heathrow is the fourth busiest airport on the planet, and it's not nearly big enough to handle the doubling in traffic the UK's Department for Transport predicts will hit by 2030.
Why move your stuff when you can live in a walking city?
• treehugger.comWhen in architecture school, my heroes were Archigram, the English architects famous for among other things, Ron Herron's Walking City from 1964.
Forget green: Healthy buildings are the next big thing
• smartplanet.comNo need to worry about health insurance. What people really need are healthier buildings.
What's the tallest skyscraper physics would allow us to build?
• dvice.comIn just a few weeks, architects will find out if the tallest building in America really is 1,776 feet tall.
This Building Is Like The World's Largest Pillow Fort
• popsci.comOr a bag of marshmallows? There are many apt analogies.
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