The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email
A proposal for a new light rail line in Copenhagen by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The strategy combines the rail with strategies for energy exchange, waste management, water treatment and electric car stations allowing the infrastructure to become the base for a new sustainable ring of development around Copenhagen.
The parametrically design façade takes it's cues from the barns for drying tobacco, that had slits for allowing natural ventilation. This urban warehouse by Endemic architecture, on the banks of the river Hudson river, New York, combine passive cooling with solar collection through the eyes of the façade.
Eliot Lee and Eun Sun Chun, architects living in New York (he's a partner at Steven Harris Architects, she's a partner at 212box), collaborated on this rammed-earth compound in the Napa Valley for Lee's parents. Before embarking on the design process, they consulted with another design couple—Eric and Silvina Blasen, of Blasen Landscape Architecture in San Anselmo, California—to establish an integrated plan.
That is the problem with so much architecture. This speed is impossible. Some people think the computer is so quick, for example. But the computer does not think for you, and the time it takes us to think does not change.
The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email
James May (Top Gear) 20ft-tall LEGO house in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey that includes a working toilet and shower – using over 3 million plastic bricks built with the aid of about 1,000 volunteers.
Architect Steven Holl: Paradise in Kansas City a short film and interview about the recently completed Bloch building an addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Missouri
The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by architects Dick van Gameren and Bjarne Mastenbroek with the local firm ABBA Architects which was short-listed for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007.
Casa de retiro espiritual designed by Emilio Ambasz in 1975 that first brought the architect to international attention is one of the most compelling architectural images of our time with it's two tall white walls emerging from the landscape.
This large-scale installation project in Córdoba, Spain is made of a series of prefabricated circular elements that vary in height and diameter, arranged in a flexible manner to allow an “,” the colorful parasols create a pattern of lighting and shade.
A proposal for a new crematorium located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands by Group A architects. Designed to be an addition on the site of a nineteenth century cemetery by the landscape architect Zocher, the new crematorium seeks to meet increasing and varied needs. The design is submerged into the landscape whilst the white canvas roof both echoes the mountains behind and a chimney stack.
The entry for the International Ideas Competition for the Rehabilitation and Extension of the José de Yarza García Zaragoza designed Teatro Fleta de Zaragoza, Spain submitted by Magen Architects under the banner "engawa" has be awarded second place. The intervention accommodates the new spatial demands whilst preserving elements of the old like stairways and parts of the street facing façade.
This was a competition entry for a Flood Observatory proposed on a site along the Usumacinta River, that runs between Mexico and Guatamala designed by collective of Colombian architects called Team 530. For more about the competition and the results.
Located in the quiet hills in the suburbs of Turin, Italy the residence seeks to make a modern synthesis with nature with exterior spaces carved from the landscape. The façade of the house is finished in layers of timber strips evoking a traditional gable roof.
In 2008 as part of the Design Miami exposition, Brazilian designers the Campana brothers (Fernando & Humberto) were asked to create an exclusive lounge for the HSBC private bank. The proposal recalls the setting of traditional communal dwelling typical in the Amazon with walls made from layers of reeds.
Studio Banana TV interviews Belzunce-Mauriño-García Millán, architects for the 356 unit hill-crawling social housing complex in Mina del Morro, Bilbao.
Excerpted from the Checker Board Foundation's film series on famous architects and their life's work, this footage shows one of Rick Joy architects recent projects a residence located in Woodstock, Vermont.
