Saw this in city of sound which I can highly recommend. This translucent concrete sounds an amazing material and so counterintuitive- think about it, a structural material that you can see through! I’d love to see some in real life. Optic article . Andreas bittis . Liquid stone exhibition
Buy the best in architetural homes worldwide with architectureforsale and at 13.5 million dollars the Campbell cliffs could be the one, only one little problem (note to self call the bank manager!). from (Jukka Rajala)
My friend Jurgen is coming to visit us in Finland next month. Great to see you mate! It’s a small detour from the main event where he is going to build an earthship in Sweden. NL branch is here. I really believe the future of architecture will be designing in ecological thinking and technology of [...]
Up today the 2005 shortlist is,
BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany - Zaha Hadid Architects
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland – O’Donnell + Tuomey
The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh - EMBT / RMJM Ltd
McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey - Foster and Partners
Jubilee Library, Brighton, Sussex - Bennetts Associates with Lomax Cassidy + Edwards
Fawood Children’s Centre, Harlesden, NW10 [...]
Syrup finland is a design agency that I really like. They did all the Koneiesto graphics etc which I loved, but not for this year unfortuneately! Anyway hopefully this year Kirsi and me can go to at least one of the days and relive our ‘youth’. Syrupnyc
analogue, possibly my favourite shop in Edinburgh. I Could browse there forever and check out their merchandise. t-shirts design and graphic books and some CD’s there website is not too bad either.
In Helsinki’s Korkeasaari zoo by Ville Hara is a really beautiful viewing tower. It was written up in the March 2005 Techniques & Architecture, and when I went there last I took a few photos. I love it because it creates a sense of place from a view and is a marker for the zoo [...]
Chris Heathcote in his anti-mega blog has a really interesting application combining google maps & Flickr. He’s mapped it to New York, San Fransisco, London, Copenhagen, and Helsinki so far. I love this idea and it extends the useability of both really well. Its great fun but also I can imagine some very serious uses [...]
The Pinchouse(s) is not really a flatpack house but a predesigned and partly premade set of different house designs, a template house I guess. None of these are twee and just a short look through the website shows they embody high design principals. I am particularly interested by the blackhouse update to the viking longhouse [...]
I’m very proud because my dad has a(nother) book coming out later this year! & can’t wait to read it…. & no I have to wait like everyone else! The page to order it from is here From the blurb he seems to have answered most of the big universal questions about the universe [...]
My friend Jurgen emailed me the other day about a great new dutch product which I think would just about fit in our back garden.He was sitting on a roof terrace bar on the thirteenth floor which had some installed in central Amsterdam. Brings back memories of our two years we lived there.
The Warsaw Museum of Jewish Heritage competition has been won by the Finnish Lahdelma & Mahlamaki. Check out the bbc article.
