The architect Milo Ayden De Luca developed the concept excrescent Utopia, it attempts to revolutionize the urban environment in the UK where now there are opaque and static houses.

This concept aims to develop the concept of lightness…
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Axonometric of Excrescent Utopia. Courtesy of Milo Ayden De Luca
Yesterday was announced in New York City that the winner of the adAPT NYC Competition is a development team composed of Monadnock Development LLC, Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, and nARCHITECTS. The development team was chosen through…
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Rendering on 27th Street. “My Micro NY” © nycmayorsoffice/Flickr
Dutch Design Week. Best Exterior: Waterwoningen IJburg, Amsterdam NL by Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer. On the Steigereiland in the IJ, a compact, urban floating water district was designed, with…
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Waterwoningen IJburg by Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer. Photography ©Luuk Kramer
Today we present this interesting house, designed by Nendo, located into the nature, and made thinking in the coexistence between man and the animals. A brilliant project, which also reminds us of "architectures nest" by Ivan Juarez and Patricia…
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Today begins the last phase of the Solar Decathlon Europe, in which the teams must ride their homes that will be open to the public while being subject to the 10 tests that will determine what the winner: the house that consumes the least amount of…
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Villa Solar assembly. Solar Decathlon Europe competition. 13/09-28/09/2012. Madrid
Other house by Jean Prouvé (1948) and other video showing the montage. Always interesting and intelligent. , full_html
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Window detail. Jean Prouvé - Ferembal House - (1948) - Adaptation by Jean Nouvel
The Nebraskan architect Randy Brown have designed a station to monitor and research contamination in the Elkhorn river. It is the first of a series of probes located on each of Nebraska’s seven major rivers. River Probes has been constructed as a…
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Exterior view. River Probes project, Randy Brown Architects. Photography © Farshid Assassi
The next project is a mini-study developed in a former maid's room (three pre-existing buildings), on a plot of only 27m² in the backyard of a house in the Del Valle of Mexico D.F. , full_html
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Taking advantage of previous article about the housing project, we bring this text by José Juan Barba, "Minimum Dwelling" published in CIRCO, n. 138, 2006. , full_html
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Cover Circo issue, 138 by José Juan Barba
A good idea for this past winter (with only three weeks in Spain). This shack called "unavilability" and designed by Gartnerfuglen, a young architecture studio in Norway, is completely portable and can be erected in just 30 seconds by one or two…
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Exterior view. Photography @ Astrid Rohde Wang and Olav Lunde Arneberg