by Neelam Mathews – August 30, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
A team of firms won the $300 million project to transform Chennai International by 2010
The Airports Authority of India has chosen plans by a team of architects including Frederic Schwartz Architects, Hargreaves Associates, Gensler, and New Delhi-based Creative Group to expand the Chennai International Airport’s domestic and [...]
by Alec Appelbaum – August 29, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
Across the country, once faceless parking garages are getting new architectural attention
The depressing amount of time most Americans spend sitting in traffic has an architectural counterpart in the bleak urban stretches devoted to faceless garages and parking lots. But as cities get serious [...]
August 27, 2007 via BehindTheCurtains
A steam shower that runs in sync with iPods and other mp3 players, the iSteamShower is designed for maximum relaxation. This version, with a curved back that houses an integrated lounge-type chair, comforts bathers with 10 body jets, a foot massage and foot scrub system. The price for all this futuristic [...]
by Sarah – August 26, 2007 via Modern-Roost.Blogspot.Com
Someone in the Netherlands has made apartments out of an old water tower. And apparently, they’re not the only ones. How gorgeous and ingenious is this? It’s a grown-up tree-house.
by Sarah – August 24, 2007 via Modern-Roost.Blogspot.Com
We’re thinking about a kitchen makeover for our home. I’m a huge fan of dark wall colors, but have never really considered them for my kitchen. In fact, I’ve never done anything to the kitchens in any of my homes. Which makes no sense since I cook almost [...]
August 23, 2007 via dezeen.com
Photographer Luke Hayes has sent us what we believe is the first comprehensive set of professional photos showing both the interior and exterior of the just-completed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007.
by Jaime – August 22, 2007 via Design-Milk.Com
Cardboard is still hot these days. The Wiggle stool is new at MoMA – reissued by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.
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August 20, 2007 via dezeen.com
Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies will build a temporary pavilion in New York City this September to host a series of performances to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery.
August 17, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
The skyscraper has had more comebacks than Cher. From its humble, naive beginnings in Chicago after the fire of 1871; its idealistic representation in early European Modernism; its apex as the glam symbol of American corporate eminence; its bimbo phase in Postmodernism; its more recent dalliance with [...]
by Dianna Dilworth – August 17, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for his cardboard houses, has just installed his latest endeavor in the paper-building world—a temporary bridge over the Gardon River, in the south of France. The 7.5-ton structure is made of 281 of Shigeru’s trademark cardboard tubes, each [...]
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