Starn Brothers on the MET (0)
7/21/10 •
The Starn Brother’s, creators of the previously posted Big Bambu, have taken to the roof of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their newest iteration of Big Bambu, “You Can’t, You Won’t and You Don’t Stop” takes over the roof garden of the MET…
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Batumi Aquarium (0)
7/20/10 •
Inspired by the characteristic pebbles of the Batumi beach, continually shaped by the wash of the waves through millennia, the building stands out as an iconic rock formation visible from both land and sea.
Winner! Adelaide Zoo (1)
7/19/10 •
Earlier this month the Adelaide Zoo was garnered with an outstanding five awards to dominate this years Australian Institute of Architect’s 2010 Australian Architecture Awards.
Bug Hotel Winner Announced (2)
7/02/10 •
The “Beevarian Antsel and Gretel Chalet” designed and constructed by the organisation ‘German Women in Property’ was selected from the shortlisted group of five entries…
Oil Eating Animals (0)
6/29/10 •
“The gulf is such a great fishery because it’s fed organic matter from oil,” said Roger Sassen, a specialist on the cold seeps who recently retired from Texas A&M University. “It’s preadapted to crude oil. The image of this spill being a complete disaster is not true.”
Philip Beesley’s Hilozoic Soil (0)
6/28/10 •
…the glass-like fragility of this artificial forest, built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic tiles, is visually breathtaking. Its frond extremities arch uncannily towards those who venture into its midst, reaching out to stroke and be stroked like the feather or fur or hair of some mysterious animal….
[Fundacion Telefonica Jury, 1st
prize, VIDA 11.0]
Ecological Urbanism (0)
6/17/10 •
“Ecological Urbanism considers the city with multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus…The book brings together practitioners, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policymakers, scientists, and public health.”
Man – Nature (0)
6/17/10 •
After nearly two months of watching human animals (those working for BP) radically alter the gulf-coast ecosystem we feel it’s time to say a few words. That, and we just so happened to have a very interesting conversation about these events with Rice University Wortham Fellow in Architecture Eva Franch Gilabert (soon to be director [...]
The International Living Buildings Institute (0)
6/15/10 •
Buildings, in many ways, represent the opposite of nature. From a modest suburban house to the most majestic skyscraper, a building signals the presence of people in a place, differentiating human spaces from their surroundings.
The Gulf Coast Oyster (0)
6/09/10 •
Where do the Gulf Coast Oysters fit into the BP Oil tragedy? Are they victims or saviors? Could they possibly hold the key to a massive gulf-coast clean up?
xSpecies Adventure Club (0)
6/08/10 •
Eyebeam hosts the Cross Species (xSpecies) Adventure Club, a supper club for humans and non-humans to explore a tasty bio-diverse future. Each event is an experience of the depth and complexity of our interconnections with nonhumans…
Beyond the Hive: Competition Shortlist (2)
6/01/10 •
A few weeks ago we reported a competition in the UK to design five-star hotels for British insects. It turns out that English gardens have been far too well kept over the last few years and the local parks department is having a difficult time maintaining an insect population. As a result the native flora [...]
Juhani Pallasmaa (1)
6/01/10 •
Every now and again we find something on the web, or in print or, in a museum, and say “Gosh! We should have had that up on the site a while ago.” During some recent web-trolling we came across this fantastic little piece by Juhani Pallasmaa, the acclaimed Finish Architect, Professor and Artist.
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