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Open Architecture Network
""Architecture or Revolution. Revolution can be avoided."
- Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, 1923
One billion people live in abject poverty. Four billion live in fragile but growing economies. One in seven people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be one in three. We don't need to choose between architecture or revolution. What we need is an architectural revolution.
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals aim to "achieve improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2015." Reaching this goal will require a profoundly new approach to improving the built environment.
The Open Architecture Network aims to be just such a catalyst for change."
Very interesting project. I hope it manages to live up to its aspirations.
Versailles Pavilion by Explorations Architecture
Paris-based Explorations Architecture have sent us these images of a temporary entrance-pavilion they have designed for the Chateau de Versailles in France.
Johnny Cupcakes LA shoppe: Webisode #1
The first sneak peek / webisode #1 of the Johnny Cupcakes LA shoppe. Working closely with a company that builds, fabricates and engineers various things for Disney Land/World, Universal Studios as well as other international artists + architects. They're helping me bring my crazy ideas to life. This new LA Johnny Cupcakes shoppe will be quite the memorable experience.
An inside look to creating the Johnny Cupcakes shoppe in LA.
Gleichenberg Thermal Bath / JSA | Arch Daily
The project is situated in a protected park and consist of a treatment area with about 50 different rooms for medical treatments, a four star hotel with several different restaurants and cafes, and a public thermal bath for the patients and other guests.
I could see myself feeling pretty relaxed in this setting. Therapeutic for sure.
Skateboarding and Architecture
This article interests me as a former neighbor of Barcelonla's skater magnet the MACBA museum, and as a former suburbanite who spent many a nights loitering at gas stations and White Castles. The idea of allowing architecture to be an interactive landscape, soundscape, meeting place, and performance spot transforms it from just a place to visit to a community center, attraction, and a place to return to.
KWK PROMES
Great architecture firm. Their website isn't the greatest, but the content definitely is. Lots of drawings and photos of the concept, drawings, floor, plans, outside, inside... really gives you a great overview of the projects.
May Lin Studio Website
The first ever web presence for Maya Lin presents a retrospective of the art, architecture and memorials she and her studio have produced in the past 26 years. Quite suitably, the interface utilizes an interactive and sortable timeline. Site by Knowawall.
the style files
Always brilliant for interior design inspirations. Great eye for color and composition.
Snohetta
Oslo, Norway firm offers architectural services for cultural and commercial buildings, parks and gardens, and bridges, roads and public spaces.
Surfstation