The Puma Store is an inspiration to all architects out there with lots of time and energy and access to a supply of old shipping containers. I consider this store to be a sort of dialogue with some of the past stores Ive seen where the designers have stacked 6 units high by one wide. [...]

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I’ve never seen a letterpressed piece of architecture before. This is my dream poster. I am an architect, and I collect architectural drawings. I’m also obsessed with typography and letterpress. This poster combines two passions in an intricate and rigorous way. It’s a tour de force in type. Sadly, it’s all sold out.Cameron [...]

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I have very little to say about this house. When trying to come up with a reason for including it on the blog, the only thing that came to mind is: "looks cool". This is not the criteria I hoped to use when I started design crack. But what the hell… One funny [...]

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Ping Mag has posted an insightful account of the pachinko architecture industry leading me to believe that I will never be able to know as much as I would want about this world. I could spend a lifetime studying the accuteness of this strnge design style. PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and [...]

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When I received this press release almost a week ago, I thought to myself: I have to write about this immediately! I was so excited to see another commission for Herzog and De Meuron, famed Swiss architects, in New York City. I have visited 50 Bond Street in the Bowery many times and stood there [...]

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Wallpaper has created another interactive post of new modern residential architecture. This month, they feature the Holley House, a simple Miesian brick house built near Garrison, New York. The work borrows the smart use of heavy planes that ground the house in a similar way to the Barcelona Pavilion. Holley House, New York – Architecture – [...]

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I design buildings for a living, and has recently struck me that my portfolio consists of zero projects that are more exclusively my own. Couple this with my mother’s move to the west coast, my growing family’s need for more space, and the availability of cheaper land in the East Bay hills, and [...]

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While gliding through the DesignBoom Blog, I found something so fascinating as to beg a short post just to remind myself to look into this more. It’s a wooden house in northwestern Russia that stands 144 feet tall and is made primarily by hand from scraps gathered by one man. There are several [...]

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Shibuya Station, by Tadao Ando, photo credit: Satoshi Minakawa Kay from Wallpaper always sends me the most interesting bits from her publication. Today, for instance, she sent me a link to their brand new Architects Directory 2008. The by-line of Wallpaper directory is The World’s 50 hottest young architecture practices. Not to toot my own [...]

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Seattle based Pb Elemental Architecture recently sent me a note to let me know that they exist and that I should write about them to let my readers know who they are. Normally, I sort of forget about these types of emails, but when I started to look in the PbEA’s work and found that [...]

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"THE HL23 tower, planned for a site on 23rd Street in Chelsea, is the kind of commission Neil Denari has being waiting for his entire working life. Mr. Denari, a Los Angeles architect who once ran the Southern California Institute of Architecture, has labored on the profession’s periphery for decades. But because of a recent [...]

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Heineken has created one of the most ingenious products I’ve seen in days. As you can see from the image above, the new Heineken World Bottle or WOBO can be used as a building material after its contents have been consumed. This product presents a real challenge to my moral compass. One perspective is that [...]

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Dan Hill from the Blog, City of Sound, has written a compelling article on the sound modeling of wind turbines as well as the aesthetic affect on the urban fabric. In his recent blog post, he states: “In urban environments, smaller vertical axis wind turbines can look like modernist sculptures and all the better for it, [...]

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I almost don’t believe this exists. This is a panel created by the company 3Form. If you’re not familiar with 3Form, and you’re an interior designer than quit now. 3Form is becoming the preeminent interior surfaces and materials company with their plastic sheets embedded with fanciful objects such as grass and their beautiful use of [...]

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I’ve been spending the last couple of days loading design crack with draft stories. I have hundreds of products that I want to tell you about that blew me away. I would say this product is more mildly warm, though. Drop is a system of ceramic tiles by swedish tile maker, Johans Golv, that are [...]

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Famed Spanish Architect, Santiago Calatrava, known for such buildings as the recent Milwaukee Art Museum, has moved further down the lake to Chicago to create what might be his most enduring work in a long career of enduring works. This one is not as flashy or anthropomorphic as his previous buildings, but it has one [...]

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