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Color in the Chicago Cultural Center
A Building Like a Lobster
Town Map Coloring
Kohoku House: Concrete and Light
We recommend that you check them out and see their work. Maybe you can visit the Kohoku House on a visit to Japan someday. The photo of the Kokohu House is from Arch Daily. They have an interesting story about Japanese houses too, and we recommend it!
Chicago Architecture Biennial is Coming Back!!
Last time was 2017, and since Biennial’s come around every two years, there will be another one in Chicago this fall. And exciting news for us is that archKIDecture will be involved! We will be doing some programs with young kids at the Chicago Cultural Center so you can have fun and your parents/grownups/adults too! […]
Reading all aROUND
For those of us who like books, who like to read, who like to look at pictures in books, well we have a place for you to go round. It is in Glasgow Scotland, and it is a round “Reading Room” (a kind of library space) that makes you feel good just to sit in. […]
Wrapping up a Building
Artist Christo is going to wrap another huge structure in fabric. This time it will be the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. And it will take A LOT of fabric. And A LOT of rope. Specifically, it will take 270,000 square feet of a polypropylene fabric and 22,965 feet of red rope. It will be […]
1000 Phone Face
In the Galaxy phone headquarter store in Shibuya, Japan, Samsung used 1000 phones to create a lighted facade, or building face. Tokyujin Yoshioka is the designer of the facade and the idea was to program each phone so that it would blink and light up and create a kind of light show. The phones extend […]
Got Milk? Or a Milk Crate Shelter?
Wow. Someone sure must have liked drinking milk. A LOT of MILK! A few years ago, a group of LAU (Lebanese American University) students used ordinary milk crates and zip ties to build an emergency shelter. These milk cartons are the same ones you can find anywhere in the world. Why milk crates? Milk crates […]