December 16th, 2007 via dezeen.com

Swedish creative studio Medium has completed a mini art museum for children, contained in a wooden box inside a grown-up art gallery.

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December 16th, 2007 via dezeen.com

This isn’t exactly new, but the last time we wrote about Alison Brooks Architects the story was very popular… so here’s The Salt House at Maldon in England, which won the RIBA Manser Medal for best new house in the UK back in October.

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December 14, 2007 via ReclaimedHome.Com

Sustainable developer/architect Mark Helder is aiming for a LEED Platinum rating for his current project in Williamsburg. Platinum is the highest green rating and if he achieves this, it will be the first Platinum LEED building in NYC.

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by Rose Etherington - December 14, 2007 via dezeen.com

Forum ‘t Zand in Utrecht by architects VenhoevenCS is one of two projects to be awarded the 2007 Rietveldprijs for architecture.

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by Rose Etherington - December 14, 2007 via dezeen.com

The AA Hijmans van den Bergh medical faculty in Utrecht designed by Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects is the joint winner of the 2007 Rietveldprijs for architecture. The award is shared with Forum ’t Zand by VenhoevenCS architects (see our previous story).

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by SwissMiss - December 14, 2007 via swissmmiss.typepad.com

Visitors enter the church through a lateral door and first see a scattered group of luminous spheres hovering in the choir. As one approaches the center of the entrance, the spheres form a giant question mark. They become a punctuation mark superposing religious symbols. As one moves through the church, the question mark decomposes. The figure becomes abstracted again in order to echo the figures of hanging cathedral lights. Contrasting the symmetry of the edifice, these luminous suspension points are like a sort of musical notation or holes punctuating the architectural volume. The question (or doubt) is absorbed by the space.

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December 14, 2007 via dezeen.com

Design Miami 07: Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny presented a project called Paper Vases at Design Miami last week, which involved laminating 700 sheets of paper into a solid block and then turning this into a vase on a lathe.

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December 13, 2007 via ReclaimedHome.Com

First of all, who doesn’t love The B-52’s and their sense of style? Kate Pierson (the redhead) is the proprietor of the Lazy Meadow Motel located in Mt Tremper, NY. Let’s just say if a motel could be a rock star, Lazy Meadow would be Kate Pierson.

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by Rose Etherington - December 14, 2007 via dezeen.com

Artist Daan Roosegaarde’s latest installation consists of a 10m corridor of ventilator fans controlled by sensors, which react to the sound and motion of visitors passing through them.

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by Reena Jana - December 13, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

The building boom in the capital of the United Arab Emirates rivals that of Dubai. But Abu Dhabi hopes to distinguish itself with ambitious green architecture.

In recent weeks, the rivalry between neighboring United Arab Emirates Dubai and Abu Dhabi has been heating up on a world stage—most notably with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s purchase of a $7.5 billion stake in Citigroup (C) (BusinessWeek.com, 11/27/07), which came on the heels of Dubai’s investment in Sony (SNE) in late November.

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