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| photo by Abel Erazo |
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| photo by Abel Erazo |
This is a permanent pavilion for net artist, Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. The artist knitted the net entirely by hand. It is designed for children to crawl in, roll around, and jump on the net. It was easy for us to see the artwork from outside even when it is protected from rain or ultraviolet light.
Via ArchDaily
Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of landmark buildings and homes during a prolific career that spanned more than seven decades. But in what is widely considered a first and only for the famed architect, Wright indulged a young boy's humble request for a dog house in 1956 and sent him designs for the structure.
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| A bench dedicated to John Thaw aka Inspector Morse |
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| I've included this one because it is also the name of the young lady (very much alive)who cares for Joyce when we travel |
The only Frank Lloyd Wright designed gas station ever to be built was constructed in Cloquet Minnesota. Located on the edge of an expansive wilderness area, this small lumber town prizes its architectural gem.
Pictured here is a home that turns with the sun, which was on display at the Exposition de l'Habitation in Paris in 1903. The idea behind the revolving home, created by Dr. Pellegrin and Parisian architect M. Pettit, was that if home could rotate with the sun, it would be provided with the sunlight needed to create a more healthful and sanitary home.
The corner store affords a rare opportunity for the inquiring designer. Rather than add yet another misshapen creature to the mutant petting zoo that comprises much of the well intentioned new housing in the city (not just the Make It Right houses), architects might do well to apply their ingenuity to maturing the adolescent awkwardness of the corner store, which can afford — indeed benefit from — unique and unexpected forms.
Developers Katie Nichols and John Walker have focused their careers on creating affordable, sustainable, design-intensive homes for creative, urban people. To achieve that goal, the duo tapped into an inexhaustible resource in the port city of Houston, Texas– shipping containers. In a partnership with architect Christopher Robertson, Nichols and Walker created the Cordell House shipping container home a few miles north of the city.
The new exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Arts architecture space is Paper City: Urban Utopias. The exhibition showcases a selection of extraordinary drawings, collages and photomontages that have been produced for Blueprint magazine as part of their ‘Paper City’ commissions over the past three years.
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The LEGO Group and Brickstructures, Inc. to produce and distribute Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO® Architecture Building Sets
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets.
One of the National Trust's most recent properties is located at a surprising address: London's Wandsworth Road. Behind its unassuming Georgian frontage lies exiled poet Khadambi Asalache's utterly unique and beautiful work of interior design mixing Islamic, English and African influences.
It is probable that at 101 years old, Oscar Niemeyer, the guru of modernist architecture whose greatest project was the city of Brasilia, is old enough to withstand disappointment, even as large as the one he has just suffered. He thought he was on course to adorn the city’s skyline with one last flourish. But now, suddenly, he isn’t. Read more
Start your day in a 14.500 liter Wine-Cask, open your eyes and find yourself with sitting room and fully-equipped bathroom at Hotel Restaurant “de Vrouwe van Stavoren” in the Netherlands.
Inside Mr. Burnham’s Ellicott Square Building.Nicolai Ouroussoff writes: Buffalo is home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with major architects like Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright building marvels here. Together they shaped one of the grandest early visions of the democratic American city.
