The spanish firm MADE IN was proclamated last Tuesday, 18 of January, winner of the internacional architecture competition Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center wich will be due to construction in the next few years in the taiwanese city of…
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MADE IN wins the Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center
Since we mentioned last month that the architectural office "Cloud 9 (Enric Ruiz Geli)" would make the proposed new restaurant of Ferran Adrià, El Bulli Foundation. Now, here we present the first ideas of the project., full_html
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Ideario by Cloud 9
At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative…
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My seven species of robot
OMA/AMO is a finalist in the competition to design the masterplan for the Skolkovo Centre for Innovation, or "Russian Silicon Valley," 20 kilometers outside Moscow. Announcement of the winner is imminent. , full_html
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Skolkovo. Image courtesy of © OMA
We offer up a new perspective, in audiovisual format, of the exhibition "Environments and Counter Environments. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972". The video includes interviews with curators, Peter Lang and Mark Wasiutao, recorded at the…
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Environments and Counter Environments. “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, MoMA 1972
Designing an idea. Commissioned by The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, this film describes the concept behind Thomas Heatherwick's design for the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. , full_html
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UK Pavilion, Seed Cathedral. Shanghai Expo, China, 2010. By Heatherwick Studio. Photography © Iwan Baan
The sinuous and segmented design of the bridge winds above de valley, along a distance of about 220 m. The central bay takes the perpendicularity to the line of the valley. The other two sections are inflected and oriented towards their anchoring…
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Photography © Vítor Gabriel
In audiovisuals, Region 0 is an informal term meaning “worldwide”. The Latino Videoart Festival of New York Region 0 embraces the idea of audiovisual products overcoming international barriers. , full_html
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In contrast to the previous two articles, from a serious prospect. Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries "first and worst…
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Anthony Van Jones
Although not previously shown interest in the sustainability of cities and buildings, now in what some might consider a degree of cynicism, since now projects have are designing with these parameters, both Sir Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid, have two…
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"El futuro de la arquitectura". Ciduad de Masdar