Two houses in five Parts; William O’Brien, Jr. This design proposal for two vacation homes for two brothers and their families on a large plot of land in upstate New York represents an examination ...
In 2008, nearly 500,000,000 shipping containers traveled the world's oceans. We have all seen them. They are immediately recognizable. 'It is a shipping container... TVs live there, not me surely...' ...
Bird Island by Graft Architects Buildings should be good. Ok, please keep reading, don't let me scare you away with the above profound statement. The drive to make a beautiful building is as old as ...
Heavy Has Debt, If it were possible to distill an artist's work in a sentence, I would say that Phoebe Washburn creates sculptural instillations from found materials. This is completely inadequate ...
What is the roof for? 'Well it keeps us dry.' Yes, yes indeed. But what goes up there? Is it like the top of a shelf or dresser, where we stick all the stuff that won't fit below? Is this all it can ...
I once had a homeless person walk up to me and express incredulity that the car had been 'invented' in 1908 (Model T) and since then, it had only been made prettier. I was somewhat taken aback by ...
Large and small, day and night, inside and out. Tranquility and dynamism, past, future and the unquantifiable that is the present- Our lives are dominated by opposites, dualities and the places the ...
ZA11 Pavilion by Dimitrie Stefanescu, Patrick Bedarf, Bogdan Hambasan How should one consider the scale of 'slightly extra-human'? Is it art or is it architecture? Has anyone ever wondered why we ...
Lexus Tower | Daniel Widrig I was once told that there are two ways to make a skyscraper. Both incorporate the same two elements: base and tower. First, one can have a base and set the tower on top. ...
Look, but don't touch. The prevalence of visuality is one of the things that defines us as human. Nearly 70 percent of sensory cells in our bodies relate to vision. We size someone or something up in ...
Interchangeable Habitation by Jonas Ersson It is becoming apparent in today's world that existing and living are two disparate yet related concepts. To exist is to be satisfied in the here and now. ...
Berlin Bubbles by Patrick Bedarf Make way for the modular! A robust design tool, it could be said that modularity has been with us since humans began to build. The International Style made modulars ...
