Besides great jazz music, yummy beignets (donut-like treats) and a great architectural bike tour of the Lower Ninth Ward, there is now a new reason to visit New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA). At 2828 Thalia Street, you will find “the Imagination Playground – an architect-designed kit of life-sized building blocks as well as a wide array […]
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Bamboochitecture
Depending on where you live, you might have bamboo growing in your backyard or neighborhood. It is a plant that grows incredibly quickly and provides an excellent building material. Elora Hardy started a bamboo construction company in Bali, Indonesia because bamboo “… has the compressive force of concrete and the tensile strength of steel, is […]
How to Move a $10 House
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Living in a World Cup Stadium
Two French architects, Axel de Stampa and Sylvain Macaux, came up with this nutty idea to make the stadiums built for the world into apartment housing. Sort of like PEZ candies, the units would slip into the huge stadium ring and people could live there, avoiding the usual situation where the stadiums remain empty and […]
Nimble Nims House from the 50’s
As we were looking around doing some research, we found this lovely house that was designed in the 1950’s. It is a period that is referred to as Mid Century Modern architecture (You get it – in the middle of the 20th century – each century is 100 years so 50 is in the MIDdle […]
Wow that Bauhaus
In Germany, between 1919 and 1933, there was an art school called BAUHAUS. It had a very different approach to art and design, whereby all of the various forms of art: painting and visual arts, design and eventually architecture would all be taught together. It was a very influential school, marking Modernism, and breaking away […]