blog wunderlust : 21 December 2009

thermae bath spa by Nicholas Grimshaw Architects

102 and still counting, happy birthday Oscar Niemeyer | a pair of pixelated high rises by SAKO | aerial photos of England | smashing windows - criminal art | Frank and the Rabbi | gingerbread architecture

WAN posters now available

The sun never knew how wonderful it was until it fell on the wall of a building

Louis Kahn

blog wunderlust: 16 November 2009

I live in a Steven Holl |  Palace of Grace | LEGO style | the work of Thom Mayne | vertical farms don't work |  broken glass | the women of the Bauhaus | the rolling house aka a reality show waiting to happen | an increased demand for construction software | KPF rips at the seams 

check out an interactive floor plan of the Shed House in the Isle of Skye

To make a house, you grab a fist of air and then you hold it with walls

Persian Proverb

blog wunderlust: 09 November 2009

Dubai gets a retro makeover | how big a solar panel would you need to power everyone in the world? |  a place for trace | Obama's Mayne man |  banquet origami | don't roll your eyes; architects can learn alot by playing golf | video: Berlin's Federal Foreign Office | tallest prefab skyscraper | urban sensing

The civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is his prison, in which he finds himself oppressed and confined, not sheltered and protected. He walks as if the walls would fall in and crush him.

Henry David Thoreau

blog wunderlust: 09 November 2009

Dubai gets a retro makeover | how big a solar panel would you need to power everyone in the world? |  a place for trace | Obama's Mayne man |  banquet origami | don't roll your eyes; architects can learn alot by playing golf | video: Berlin's Federal Foreign Office | tallest prefab skyscraper | urban sensing

The civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is his prison, in which he finds himself oppressed and confined, not sheltered and protected. He walks as if the walls would fall in and crush him.

Henry David Thoreau

blog wunderlust: 09 November 2009

Dubai gets a retro makeover | how big a solar panel would you need to power everyone in the world? |  a place for trace | Obama's Mayne man |  banquet origami | don't roll your eyes; architects can learn alot by playing golf | video: Berlin's Federal Foreign Office | tallest prefab skyscraper | urban sensing

The civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is his prison, in which he finds himself oppressed and confined, not sheltered and protected. He walks as if the walls would fall in and crush him.

Henry David Thoreau

blog wunderlust: 02 November 2009

10 years of turbine commissions | a sad fate | no to Gropius, in Chicago | stoop to conquer | Rope-Access Surveying | a glimpse into my past | forest façade takes root | from industry to living | kirigami

Architecture is a local act: it ought to be attentive to and representative of the unique physical, topographic and environmental constraints of the location.

Graeme Massie architects

blog wunderlust: 26 October 2009

Does architecture have a shoe fetish? | monuments from the old country | cheap furniture quiz | 5 bridges | Michael Arad Interview | a temple of trash | before there was Sketch Up | Civic vandalism | concrete mushrooms | affordable housing? | and now the LEGO kitchen | the future, underground | cool parking garages | no shoes and barefooted dentists

also take a look at some 3d renders of the Farnsworth house by Peter Guthrie

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

- Walter Gropius