The remote alpine village of Vals in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden rose to fame when star architect Peter Zumthor built new thermal baths there in 1996. The spa is well known for its quarzite slab construction. Now the surrounding hotel complex is in need of renovation. An investor has offered to buy the whole site, but Zumthor fears for the future of his masterpiece.
British architect David Adjaye, OBE was awarded Design Miami 2012 Designer of the Year, Crane.tv interviews him at the Wolfsonian museum in Miami to discuss the award and why he always draws inspiration from his heritage.
To create a smarter space, Kennedy constructed a 160-square-foot test home (the smallest legal-sized apartment for California) inside a Berkeley warehouse. SmartSpace 1.0 is filled with innovations like the SmartBench, an adjustable banquette that converts from a dining table to a guest bed.
With the repeated flooding problems at the Mies van der Rohe designed Farnsworth House, concerns arose damaged original artefacts as well for additional exhibition space. Many of these include Mies designed wardrobe can no longer remain on display at the Farnsworth House. The director of the Farnsworth House, Whitney French approached the design build studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology headed by Professor Frank Flury to design a space to house both the wardrobe and various exhibitions on the Farnsworth property in Plano, IL.
Posted by MAKMU ta On Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I don't have to worry about Webster doing this. I don't get the paper and he can't read. via I do love Alfred Hitchcock.
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred (Joseph) (1899–1980), English movie director. Acclaimed in Britain for movies such as The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), he moved to Hollywood in 1939. Among his later works, notable for their suspense and their technical ingenuity, are the thrillers Strangers on a Train (1951), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).
Film by Franco Di Capua architect on the Julio Garcia Lafuente designed Sanctuary of Merciful Love in Collevalenza in Perugia, Italy completed in 1965.
Urban Heartbeat invites all urban artists, designers, muralists, illustrators, cartoonists from the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico to participate and send us their proposals.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2012
To submit via email demibarrioatubarrio@gmail.com
Apologies I just noticed that I posted this and the deadline has just passed
This film explores how the Metropol Parasol, one of the largest wooden structures in the world, affects the people who live and work around it, as well as the historic area in which it sits. Designed by Architect, J. MAYER H., with engineering consulting from Arup it was completed in April 2011
Episode four of Great Spaces features the New Museum, founded as the New Museum of Contemporary Art designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art from outside the United States.
