In the town of Evanston, Illinois (just north of Chicago), an architect bought a house for only ten dollars. You heard it right! TEN DOLLARS. And it is a house that was designed by a famous architect, built in the Prairie School period of architecture. (Remember the Prairie School is the period of Frank Lloyd […]
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A Grand Hotel on Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel. What a great movie. We love that the whole story revolves around a building, a great structure, that is all derived from the imagination of Wes Anderson, the creator, and director of the film. The hotel is bigger than life in the movie, but in real life it is a model […]
Coloring Architecture – A coloring book for kids and adults!
We finally did it! – We published a coloring book with drawings from the inside of houses – interiors – and we want you to color them! Some are simple and easy to color in, others are more complex. All will look great once you color them in and tear or cut them out and hang […]
What? A 3D-Printed Apartment Building?
Yessir, that is what the headline reads: “World’s first 3D-printed apartment building constructed in China” – what the heck? A Chinese company, named WinSun, built a five story building with 3-D printed materials. It was built out of recycled building materials.Pieces were printed with a giant printer and then brought to the building site. Production […]
Neat Architecture Book for Kids
A design and build architecture firm in the UK, called Moon, had an awful good idea to write a children’s book about architecture. And what a book they made! Detailed illustrations show the inside of a “Design/Build” office (and we think that the people in the picture are probably the real members of the office […]
Rotterdam Peas Arch
Rotterdam, a wonderful city in the Netherlands for design, has a new market and apartment building that takes up a huge block in the center of town. It is called the Markthal Rotterdam and it is a HUGE arch with market stalls on the ground of the inside of the arch and apartments in the […]
BuildIT! Exhibit at the Betts Again!
The archKIDecture BuildIT! exhibit is going to be at the Betts House Museum again in Cincinnati next summer. Keep your eyes peeled for the kid-sized, interactive exhibit about architecture at this small, special museum. (This postcard is from this past summer – don’t be confused!)
Architecture Classroom Poster
The designers at Pop Chart Lab created a beautiful infographic – otherwise known as a graphic with lots of information on it – all about significant architectural structures from around the world. It looks like a bunch of small blueprint drawings of each building, and the significant facts about each are listed too, like location, […]
This House is the Cat’s Meow
Cats are finicky. Some people might think that this translates into having good taste. We are not sure about that at archKIDecture. We do know that these luxurious cat homes would be the pride of any cat lover, showing off your good taste. Made of a variety of materials, these homes are an interesting solution […]
Building with Bottles + Bamboo
Take things that you have around, like plastic bottles and bamboo sticks, and make a lovely little building for the garden or a playhouse. How great! Keeping the environment in mind and keeping a lot of plastic out of the garbage dump. Here are some photos about a bottle and bamboo garden house in Viet […]