I recently learnt about this company whilst watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The e-log has a foam core skinned in real wood. Compared to regular log homes, e-log is cheaper, better for the environment and better insulates your home. [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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Living in Vancouver where the architecture is a little plain I get excited when I see creative and brave architecture elsewhere in the world. That being said Vancouver is listed on this site of unusual architecture, unfortunately the exampl [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, April 6th, 2009
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The base of the house is fixed but has a ‘second skin’ that slides to expose more sunlight to the glass section of the house or exposes the interior courtroom to the open sky. Simple, elegant and intelligent. Watch the movie tha [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, February 27th, 2009
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I have just learnt of the company Future Systems. The founder Jan Kaplický died earlier this month but leaves behind a most impressive portfolio of both architecture and product design. Two pieces of work that are well worth a mention are [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
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In addition to ADCC and W3 awards we took home earlier in the year, we were recently very pleased to learn that our website for UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was honoured with a Lotus Merit in the interactive categor [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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We just received an intriguing promo from the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) for their current exhibit titled, Clip/Stamp/Fold 6 The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. The exhibition is based around the explosion of o [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, September 11th, 2008
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We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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At the Dasparkhotel in Ottensheim, Austria, guests receive a door code before arrival and let them selves in. Click here to see images.
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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We are happy to announce the launch of UBC’s School of Architecture’s new website. The site offers students, faculty and alumni the ability to upload content and comment on other’s work. We think the custom Flash Tag bar s [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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Bono and the boys are busy at work on the tallest building in Ireland, a consortium led by the band has been selected as the preferred bidder to design, finance and construct the £140 million project. The tilted triangular 600ft. building [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 15th, 2007
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Random surfing this morning turned up this fascinating look at how an entire airplane factory was camouflaged during WW2. Located in Burbank, the obvious solution was Hollywood-style trompe l’oeil to disguise the factory as an average [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 7th, 2007
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We are happy to announce the launch of MEJA.ca, a site that we’ve developed for Marceau Evans Johnson Architects. The site is built on a WordPress content management framework that allows the company to update their online portfolio o [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | 2 Comments »
Not sure how or why, but for a little while I’ve been fascinated with the apparent lack of modern design in funerary monuments and other things like urns, crypts and even coffins. I’m not talking about some crazy high-tech video [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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I love architecture. Heck, at one point in my life my goal was to become an architect. So when I was invited to attend an installment of CBC’s Studio One Book Club to meet and hear renowned philosopher and historian Alain de Botton di [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 8th, 2007
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Surrealalien.de has come up with an interesting idea: wallpaper that warps around your doors and wall hangings. The concept: “Our product dissolves limits between architecture, wallpaper and hangings, with the wallpaper functioning as [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, June 15th, 2007
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I prefer to prepare for travel by reading fiction set in or about the places I intend to go, but aside from travel reference material, have never used texts of the non-fiction variety. Having just returned from my trip to France, I just got [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 15th, 2007
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When I first saw this I thought it was a very unique idea. Kind of like being able to sit in your front yard in a big comy couch and tv without concern for the elements. Then again, a read through the comments on this post about Adam Kalkin [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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Two neighbours have built a bridge from one balcony to the other in an East Vancouver neighbourhood. Built as an art sculpture and statement on what it means to be neighbours in a community, the thirty-seven-foot-long bridge spans from the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 30th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
A curious interview with Nike’s Tinker Hatfield where he contends that what you draw or design is really the culmination of everything you’ve ever seen or done. In his case an innovative and controversial Georges Pompidou Centre [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 20th, 2006
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As you claw your way up the design career ladder you might find yourself at home very little. Thus, the Hanse Colani Rotor House may be just the thing for your busy professinal life. Comapct in size, the home’s main feature is a six s [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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In 1993, then 22-year-old Markus Freitag and his brother Daniel designed a messenger bag out of recycled truck tarps. Flash forward to 2006 and the company has built their flagship store out of 26 stacked shipping containers.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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The London Design Festival just wrapped up. With a mandate to “celebrate and promote all things design”, and from the looks of the website, must have been an amazing event. I came across this installation called Bridge by artist [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 6th, 2006
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By no means a definitive list, check out these ten “seeeeeriously cool workplaces“. I often wonder if any of these high concept, really modern and cool looking places are just really cool to look at in photos and not such great [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 5th, 2006
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Jacque Fresco designs the civilizations of the future; and in the process, he defines how the human race will need to change in order to get there.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
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For the 2006 London Architecture Biennale Jason Bruges Studio created a unique wayfinding system consisting of pink weather balloons and strategically placed pavement graphics to guide visitors, draw their attention to surrounding buildings [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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While on break from ICOGRADA here at the University of Washington, we went to the Henry Art Gallery to check out the Maya Lin exhibit, Systematic Landscapes. Lin is best know for her incredibly powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washingt [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
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Forbes magazine has released a slide show of the world’s top ten tallest buildings. Which reminded me of the MOMA’s sweet site of a couple of years ago
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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Many years ago while travelling throughout Europe I discoverd the work of Spansh architect Santigo Calatrava. I was immediately drawn to the marvellously complex yet elegant arcitectural forms of his structures (especially his bridges). Alm [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 31st, 2006
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If you’re a designer it’s unlikely your aesthetic sensibilities cease when you go home. Apartment Therapy, whose tag line is “Changing the world, one apartment at a time.”, is currently running their 2nd Annual Small [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
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Stumbled upon this manifesto by architect Michael McDonough while researching illustrators for a design project. From Number 7: The power to create things and impose them on the world is a privilege. Do not abuse it, do not underestimate it [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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I doubt architect and designer Verner Panton subscribed to a Less is More philosophy. Instead the Danish artist made a substantial contribution to the More is More ideological movement, with his fantastical interpretations of interiors, fur [...]
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Categories: Architecture, Art, Design | 1 Comment »
Two years ago, while in Ontario visiting with friends and family, I was kindly invited to my cousin’s new home for Thanksgiving dinner. Getting there required taking the subway out to Kipling, its westernmost stop and then driving ano [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 17th, 2005
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Made of welded PVC plastic with inflation neck and valve, The Urban Nomad Shelter is designed to re-brand the homeless and re-map urban real estate. Electroland focused on the homeless because of the profound nature of their problem: They s [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, September 8th, 2005
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The Billboard Building in Moto Azabu, Tokyo, was conceived as more a billboard than a building. Klein Dytham Architecture decided that the tiny triangular site lended itself to a strong graphic presence, and so the building’s glass fa [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, September 2nd, 2005
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This house is not a luxury resort, but rather the private residence of the late Sheikh Zayed, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi. Rather impressive what $1.10 per litre ($2.55 per gallon) for gasoline ca [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | 4 Comments »
Always inspiring, Frank Gehry reveals his proposed design for the Brooklyn Nets arena and surrounding 21 acre corridor. The Times architectural critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff proclaims “If it is approved, it will radically alter the Brook [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
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Temples for four-legged Gods: tailor-made habitats created in the likeness of those of man and designed for their different attitudes and lifestyles. The symbol, Dog is a God, underlines this rediscovered divinity, where man is no longer su [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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A new type of fiber-reinforced bendable concrete has been developed at the University of Michigan. The new concrete looks like regular concrete, but is 500 times more resistant to cracking and 40 percent lighter in weight. Tiny fibers that [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, May 5th, 2005
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Walmart wants a piece of Vancouver, and they are doing whatever it takes to get it. Vancouver City Hall rejected Wal-Mart’s plans to open a store in Vancouver saying it was not environmentally friendly enough for the city. They went b [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
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Do these living spaces look anything like the shipping crates that the older robots lived in in the movie iRobot to anyone else? They do look rather roomy for about 60 square feet though.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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How do you make a 70′s concrete building modern? Stick 4,340 frosted glass disks backlit with LED’s behind them to the building. Obviously… (via Engadget)
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, January 24th, 2005
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