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Fibonacci-Inspired British National Wildflower Center
You might not intuitively associate wildflowers with mathematics, but as Ian Simpson Architects proves, the relationship between the two can inspire beautiful architecture. The architecture firm was part of the winning team in an open, international design competition to design the addition to an existing building at the British National Wildflower
Asian Designers Are Schooling American Architects
Renowned Asian designers now helm two of the U.S.'s traditionally Eurocentric architecture schools. Here's what they're teaching the new generation of American architects.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Architecture Collection
The builders, designers and architects of today grew up with Legos yesterday. To celebrate this connection Lego has released their Lego Architecture series, including kits of some of the world’s most famous works of architectural design including a series of kits dedicated to the works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architecture centre takes Yorkshire school to final stage of landscape design competition (Driffield Today)
Arc, the architecture centre for Hull and the Humber sub-region, is taking King James school from Knaresborough in North Yorkshire to the national final of a school landscape design competition. (30/06/2009 09:56:12)
“10 Architectural Wonders of 2008” Slideshow
Quick! Name 2008's most award-winning bridge! Stuck? Then how about the Residential Project of the Year? Or the best Green Roof projects of 2008? If you're coming up short, you might want to pick up a copy of the just-published "Almanac of Architecture and Design 2009," which just hit the streets.
January 24, 2009: Central Texas Gardener
Landscape architect Robert Leeper; Maria and Alan Palmer Fredericksburg garden; John Dromgoole checks soil temperature Duration : 0:26:45 Technorati Tags: architecture , basics , design , garden , gardening , gardens , landscape , organic , planting , seeds , soil , temperature , vegetable , winter
Revitalised Industrial Architecture Becomes Design Hotel in Łódź, Poland (Hospitality Net)
The andel’s design hotel celebrated its festive grand opening in Łódź last month. After decades of standing empty, the former factory, a weaving mill established in 1878 by textile magnate Izrael Poznanski directly next to the Old Town, has been transformed into a shining example of how historic industrial architecture can blend with modern design. The 4-star hotel was built by the real estate ...
Pawlowski earns LEED design credential (The Grass Valley Union)
Andrew J. Pawlowski, an architect with Siteline Architecture in Nevada City, has passed the demanding test for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is now a LEED-accredited professional.
The Architecture Issue (New York Times)
If an issue “devoted to architecture and infrastructure would be incomplete without architects,” the vision of future infrastructure offered in the June 14 issue is curiously lacking. The most exciting infrastructure advances today are not being developed by architects. Urban designers and landscape architects are creating public spaces that double as water-treatment facilities; new businesses ...
360º Panaorama of the Star Trek Enterprise Bridge
In order to achieve this free form movement of data that both Scott and JJ envisioned, we had to design an architecture that utilized many computers, dynamic content rendering and broadcasted meta data to create what appears to be a contiguous world into which all of the screens act as windows.