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New Cottages at Fallingwater
This weekend, Design Competition: New Cottages at Fallingwater exhibition closes at the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Earlier this year, the Western...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.22.10 -
Creating the Modern Stage
While in New York last week I made a stop into the Morgan Library to see the new show Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera, on view until August 16th.
written by: Aaron Britt06.03.09 -
Black, Red, and Green All Over
A dramatic house in Australia drew its architectural inspiration from Mies van der Rohe but got its color from fresh tomato sauce.
written by: Catherine Franklinphotos by: Peter Hyatt04.30.09 -
DawnTown Miami Contest Winners
In a world of hypothetical architecture contests and imagined landscapes, one does thrill at the possibility that all these deft exercises in computer rendering might one day be actually built.
written by: Aaron Britt12.18.09 -
Bellemo & Cat's Cradle
Architect-sculptor double act Cat Macleod and Michael Bellemo first came to our attention with their Cocoon weekender, a steel-clad blimp suspended in a canopy on the Australian coastline.
written by: Karen Pakulaphotos by: Prue Ruscoe02.27.09 -
Barely There
If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they sat contemplating the water, the Enns family might still be...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Thomas Fricke02.01.09 -
The Wild Beast by Hodgetts + Fung
Los Angeles–based architects Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture created a music pavilion for the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute...
written by: Erika Heet11.02.09 -
Solid Gold
When it comes to material originality, this former tavern in Chicago’s trendy Bucktown neighborhood pulls out all the stops. Case in point? Colorful pieces of broken LPs are visible in the...
written by: Geoff Manaughphotos by: Doug Fogelson/DRFP01.23.09 -
Buffalo, New York
Last week I traveled back East to my hometown of Buffalo, New York. Though we may not be able to consistently win a football game, we Buffalonians do know good architecture when we see it. The...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.21.09 -
Hot Rocks
Taking a calculated turn from tradition, two Czech architects designed a modern rendition of a classic Bohemian home, powered by solar panels and a geothermal heat pump that draws energy from the...
written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Andrea Lhotakova01.21.09 -
Suburban Flight
It’s become an all-too-familiar scenario all across America: A city’s downtown, once a thriving place to live and work, has slowly withered and become decrepit.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Juliana Sohn01.16.09 -
At the Elm
When a couple in Amsterdam decided to upgrade their residence from a small houseboat to a larger one, they sought a design that would elevate the kitchen—literally. Set on the top floor and...
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Rene Mesman01.02.09 -
Interview: Filmmaker Eric Bricker
A documentary screening at Dwell on Design zooms in for a close-up on 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman and his iconic images that came to define modernism and Los Angeles with...
written by: Alissa Walker05.27.09 -
Top Ten Green Projects
Earlier this week, the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment announced the winners of their annual Top Ten Green Projects competition. The scoring system was based on...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.15.09 -
Sample's Example
“I’ve had my share of so-called glamorous architecture and I found it more boring than this. You can only do so much to an office building. Here, no matter how tedious the job is from a...
written by: Chelsea Holden Baker04.01.09 -
Tokyo!'s Urban Anxiety
The new movie Tokyo!—a triptych of short films directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho—presents three increasingly neurotic architectural visions of the teeming,...
written by: Aaron Britt03.19.09 -
Restaurant Design Awards
For the sixth year, AIA Los Angeles's Restaurant Design Awards will be announced at Dwell on Design. Jurors that include chef Mark Peel, architect Dean Larkin, and writer and publicist Haily Zaki...
written by: Alissa Walker06.03.11 -
Tree's Company
Greening Los Angeles has long been Andy Lipkis’s dream. Greening his nonprofit’s Hollywood Hills campus is now a reality.
written by: Aaron Britt02.25.09 -
Magda Biernat's Betel Nut Girls
I recently chatted over the phone with architectural photographer Magda Biernat, whose work photographing Betel Nut Girls of Taiwan (and the small, contained structures they work in) will be...
written by: Aaron Britt02.16.11 -
Standout in a Crowd
In architecturally conservative San Francisco, this house built on a 20-foot-wide lot proves that modern design can fit—literally and figuratively—in any neighborhood.
written by: Amos Klausnerphotos by: Todd Hido05.04.09 -
Sign of the Times
Looking for directions on the road to sustainability? At Leger Wanaselja Architecture's multifamily development in Berkeley, California, all signs point to green.
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Randi Berez04.21.09 -
Take Me Home
A “tree house” of clean lines, ample glass, and thoughtful ingenuity lets a Washington, DC–area family and a stream of weekend guests enjoy prefab living in an unlikely locale:...
written by: Jeremy Berlinphotos by: Chris Mueller01.08.09 -
Free Design Advice!
Good professional design advice don't come cheap—but for two days at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, it comes free! This coming weekend, Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26, at the Los...
written by: Jaime Gillin06.23.11 -
Julius Shulman: 10/10/10
This Sunday, October 10, on the day that would have been architectural photographer Julius Shulman’s 100th birthday, the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House will...
written by: Erika Heet10.07.10 -
Material Explorations with L.A. Firm Layer
Situated at the cross-section of architecture, art, and installation, Los Angeles–based architectural practice Layer has consistently managed to delight and surprise. Complex yet not...
written by: Carren Jao07.31.12
