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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our Japanese friend, Masako, sent us some great photos of a new buddhist temple under construction and she included this photo of wooden planks, inscribed with various Japanese characters. We wondered what these were and found out that they are called Munafuda. As the temple building is being constructed, these wooden pieces will be placed […]
Ever wonder about traveling to the moon? We think it is interesting that there are companies that are already trying to figure out how to build hotels on the moon. They are preparing for a time when travel is easy, like jumping on an airplane to another city, except you will jump on a shuttle […]