So sadness around us!

"It was comforting to know that the neighbors had stopped speaking"

Unhappy Hipsters said at his blog

circular building on the dam

by José María Sánchez García

Dangerous souvenir

From the medical records of St George's Hospital Medical School:

"A 3 year old boy presented to our accident and emergency department with an obvious penetrating head injury. He had tripped and fallen onto a metal model of the Eiffel Tower which then became rigidly lodged into his skull.

On arrival he had a Glasgow coma score of 15 and was neurologically intact. He was then anesthetised for a computed tomography scan which showed the tip of the metallic model penetrating the skull and lying 11 mm into the brain parenchyma.

He was transferred directly to the neurosurgical theatre for a craniotomy to remove the foreign body and debridement of the wound. Following this procedure he was successfully extubated and made a good recovery on the paediatric intensive care unit.

The following day he was discharged to the ward with regular antibiotics and prophylactic phenytoin."

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'the beauty and the geek' made by netherland studio nieuwe heren

Khan´s Exeter Library

Kahn's Exeter Short Film from Alex Roman

Perec Puzzle

I love this kind of puzzles since I read "life a user´s manual" this one is

'16 animals' by enzo mari, produced by danese, 1957.

Domestic Robocop

Keiichi Matsuda, a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, produced this short video in the final year of his M.Arch.

The tower of Babel

'babel kit' by encore heureux is currently being shown at carton plein exibition and has also been featured
at maison & object 2010

Tin Man Bed for homeless people

Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong has created a tiny floating house as part of the Hong Kong & Shenzhen bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Called Paddling Home, the structure measures 1.2 metres in each direction and floats atop four barrels. The biennale continues until 27 February.

Khan strikes again

a twenty unit artist residence has been built in tong zhou district (China) by dna to meet the request of songzhuang's growing artist community

Haiti quake 360º on tour

2Cup + 1Light = 1Lamp

designer martin neuhaus has designed 'becherlicht' a cup light which functions
as a wall luminaire. the light throws three-dimensional colored shadows onto the wall.
the project is on show in the 'tatorte - design braucht täter' exhibition as part of the passegen

program of imm cologne 2010.

Trailer Banksy´s Movie

An approach for La Cornisa: A cemetery

Dutch practice XML has won the competition for Europan 10 in Tallinn and received honorable mentions for its proposals in Madrid and Munich. Europan is a biannual, pan-European competition that aims to bring to the fore Europe’s young architecture and urban design professionals by realizing the prize-winning proposals. Over the period of twenty years that the Europan competition has been held, XML is the first office to be successful in three respective Europan sites at the same time.

MADRID

In the Europan competition in Madrid, XML was awarded an honorable mention for its proposal ‘El Cementerio de la Cornisa’. The project combines a cemetery with a park, to recover one of the most emblematic sites in Madrid’s city center: the Manzanares Cornice. As an area that was peripheral to the city but also contained an influential religious center, the Cornice played a double role in Madrid’s social and cultural fabric ever since some buildings were constructed there in the 13th century.

The project seeks to maximize the true potential of a void within the city. As in most European cities, Madrid’s population is waning. Urban growth has come to a standstill, exacerbated by the current recession, and the median age of the city’s population has risen considerably. The proposal of XML is based on the precept that, for a site to be absorbed within the public space of a city, meaning is more important than program. Therefore, instead of reacting with the typical developers’ reflex bent on allocating a program to each and every available location within a city, this proposal aims to attribute meaning to the intrinsic qualities of the site’s emptiness.

Within the project, XML proposed that the Cornice’s emptiness is preserved by pursuing a program characterized by emptiness: death. The proposal transforms the site into a grid of cemeteries on various plateaus, modestly following the morphology of the landscape. Instead of solely offering programmatic filling, this proposal pushes the intrinsic quality of the Cornice site to its extreme by transforming it into a tranquil, serene park within Madrid’s highly developed urban landscape. With each burial ritual, the Madrileños incorporate part of their personal histories into the site, which becomes an invisible but indelible element of the city’s mental map over the years. The routes through the grid weave into the surrounding urban areas. In this way, the Cementerio de la Cornisa project revives the aura of the convent established here centuries ago, thus strengthening the identity of the San Francisco el Grande area within the city, allowing the site to become a unique and fundamental part of the city’s public space.

Candela´s first birthday at La Cornisa

If you said...

Architect for 0,05$

John Morefield is one of thousands of unemployed designers who are reinventing themselves. Last year, he put up a booth at a farmers' market in Seattle, advertising his skills for a nickel, and ended up earning more than $50,000 in commissions

New York Times

Other buried home

architectural firms SeARCH and CMA have collaborated to build a holiday home
called 'the villa vals' underneath the alpine slopes of vals, switzerland.

Haiti ocupada

El gran terremoto que ha sacudido a Haiti y la catastrofe producida ha servido de escusa para que el ejercito estado unidense invadiese el pais cuya costa occidental se enfrenta cara a cara con la isla de Cuba; semjante enemigo no justifica una invasión militar, pero resulta preocupante. Vemos como las misiones "humanitarias" son realizadas por personal armado y más bien parece disfrazar una ocupación militar como ocurre en Irak, Afganistán, etc., donde se establecen protectorados con gobiernos títeres. No quiero criticar gratuitamente el imperialismo yanqui, que al final es una característica histórica de esa potencia mundial independientemente del color del gobernante en la casa blanca, al fin y al cabo, si no lo hace otro país es por impedimentos históricos: los americanos son capaces de poner los muertos, para los europeos es impensable (recuerdo la última misión militar del ejercito español: la ocupación de la Isla de Perejil). Si se justifica lo que acaba de ocurrir en Haiti con las intachables intenciones de repartir la ayuda internacional que un simulacro de país no es capaz de realizar, me pregunto angustiado ¿Cuando G.W. Bush abandonó a su suerte la ciudad de Nueva Orleans durante las inundaciones provocadas por el Katrina, porque no ocupó el ejercito mexicano la ciudad y evitar el pillaje y las violaciones que se produjeron en el Super Dome? Siendo una ciudad francófona ¿Porqué no organizó Chirac una conferencia internacional de ayuda a la ciudad devastada? Son preguntas retóricas. Asistimos al fin del positivismo y al retroceso de la historia, volvemos al siglo XIX, al colonialismo, los protectorados...

http://www.artificialowl.net

This church is the only remaining building left from the village of San Juan Parangaricutiro, located in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. What happened? Not far from there In 1943 the Volcán de Parícutin started to rise out of a farmer's cornfield. In the following irruption, it buried 2 villages under lava and ashes, including San Juan Parangaricutiro

Le Corbusier on the Moon

domino house, graphite and ink on paper, 23 x 21cm 2008

Alison Moffett

Picasso´s Guernica 3D

Vault cardboarded guest room

Project: Hidden Lines, a cardboard cabinet

Vals, Switzerland

Project Design: Jeroen van Mechelen, Studio JVM

CNC Carving: Nedcam b.v.

Design Villa Vals: SeARCH in collaboration with Christian Müller architects.

Tuscany model

Tuscany Barn House, Italy

Julian King Architects

Gypsum megacrystals

Caves near Chihuahua, Mexico

The Wall

Project Date: 2009
Project Team: Ronald Rael, Virginia San Fratello, Brian Grieb, Nicholas Karklins, Emily Licht, Plamena Milusheva, Colleen Paz, Molly Reichert
Project Info: Border Wall as Architecture was selected as a finalist in the WPA 2.0 competition. Read more about the Border Wall as Architecture here.

Tree Pipes

Title: Nature Factory
Artist: Makoto Tanijiri / Suppose design office
Curation: Masaaki Takahashi (BRIZHEAD)
Date: 2009.8.14 (Fri) – 2010.1.31 (Sun)
Venue: DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA 1F
Address: 6-3-3, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 81-3-64 18-5323
Hours: 13:00-20:00
Holidays: Non-regular Holiday
Web: www.diesel.co.jp/denimgallery

Garden Station

The human being always want to keep under control nature, but now a controled nature (grass, dogs,etc.) is sharing our human spaces.

Britomart Station, Auckland

New Zeland

facade

scandurra studio

andrea palladio: through the eyes of contemporary architects

royal academy

Trío Jontef: Klezmer & Yiddish songs.

Greek home

Architects: decaARCHITECTURE
Location: Antiparos, Greece
Project Team: Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena, Elena Zabeli, Kyle Gudsell, Katerina Chryssanthopoulou
Owner: Oliaros AE (Antiparos Design Projects)
Structural Engineers: KYMA / Manos Kyriazis
Mechanical Engineers: TEKEM / George Kavoulakos
Contractor: Kataskevastiki Topometriki Parou ABETE / Nikos Kaggelis
Landscape Designers: Doxiadis+ / Thomas Doxiadis
Project Area: 237 sqm
Project Year: 2008

Ettiene Leopold Trouvelot

Trouvelot made a living as an artist, painting mostly portraits, but he had an amateur interest in entomology. His main interest was in identifying native silkworms that might be used for silk production. (L. Trouvelot(1867) The American Silk Worm. American Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 1., pp.30-38) The exact reasons or circumstances are unknown, but in the late 1860's he returned from a trip to France with some gypsy moth egg masses. He was apparently culturing them on trees in back of his house when some of the larvae escaped. Trouvelot understood the potential magnitude of this accident and notified local entomologists but no action was taken.

After this accident, Trouvelot apparently lost interest in entomology and became interested in Astronomy. He became famous for his illustrations of astronomical details of the sun and of Venus and was eventually given a faculty position at Harvard University in Astronomy. A crater on the moon was named in honor of Trouvelot and he won the French Academy's Valz prize for his astronomical research.

In 1882 Trouvelot returned to live in France; the timing of this move coincided with the appearance of the first gypsy moth outbreak on his street. Trouvelot Died in 1895.

As the outbreak on Trouvelot's street continued to grow in size, residents of the Boston area became increasingly alarmed about the gypsy moth problem. In 1889 the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture began a campaign to eradicate the gypsy moth. The methods used during the program ranged from manual removal of egg masses, burning infested forests and application of primitive insecticides. Despite the expenditure of considerable money and effort, the gypsy moth infestation continued to expand in size and by 1900 the effort to eradicate this insect was abandoned.

During the 1980s, severe outbreaks in the Northeast resulted in vast tracts of defoliation, particularly in oak-dominated forests. Chris Bactel, Director of Collections and Grounds at the Morton Arboretum, recalls driving for fifty miles through a forested area near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1986 and seeing not a single leaf except those on black walnut and tulip trees, two of the few species distasteful to gypsy moth caterpillars.

Garden Room

architects: visiondivision
location: stockholm
design team: anders berensson & ulf mejergren
construction year: 2009
project area: 55m2

2CV

florian pugnaire is part of the group show 'reset' at the
fondation d'entreprise ricard for contemporary art, paris
from january 19th to february 20th, 2010.

Mujer