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The adaptive reuse of the lovely old Twenty-Eighth Street YMCA is a little ahead of schedule, set to open on December 3rd (rather than in 2013). Architecture firm Koning Eizenberg designed the project, which rehabilitates and adds to the 1926…

The Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an exhaustive research project, the product of the lifetime works of Danzig Baldaev, prison guard and amateur artist during the Soviet period, and press photographer Sergei Vasiliev. The books caught our…

This small house which is organised in three different floors, makes an effort to combine the open familiar rooms with a good natural lighting in a small plot. The result, a beautiful japanese house really good integrate in the surroundings.,…

It makes very easy to find the hometown of the author that we present, Lizzie Mary Cullen. This is just one of her many series of drawings entitled "London Psycho-geographies," which led her to exhibit internationally on the spot, in London, New…

Today we have learnt the names of the awarded proposals of the International Gastronomic Center (IGC), the student contest developed by Arquideas with the objective of designing a gastronomic building in Brussels. The winners have managed to solve…

Once again we are talking about this project, AWP and HHF have given us more schemes and diagrams on the proposals, you can see all if you go to the exhibition of "In 2020, a new vision of public spaces" on La Défense, opened on 24 June and you can…

In an essay to Places Journal, adapted from his book "Corrections and Collections", Joe Day says: "After two centuries of incremental growth, the number of correctional facilities and museums in the United States tripled, from roughly 600 prisons…

This is Gehry Partners entry, last summer, about the National Art Museum of China in Beijing ( architectural competition). , full_html

Related Companies commissions Zaha Hadid Architects to design an 11-storey apartment block beside New York's popular High Line park at 520 West 28th Street. Related Companies is the most prominent privately-owned real estate firm in the United…

The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis…