15 Shipping Containers Turned Into Designer Homes. Tweet Shipping containers are designed to transport goods from one country to another but it seems to becoming a novel idea to turn old shipping containers into designer homes. While some think they are much too ugly to call home, others can see the creativity that can come from recycling these old containers. 1. $40,000 Containers Of Hope Residence With a $40,000 budget, Benjamin Garcia Saxe used two 40-foot long shipping containers to create this cozy 1,000 square feet space. The home is located in San Jose, Costa Rica, and proves you don’t need deep pockets to fund a shipping container home project. [SEE ALSO - Guy Builds Paris Apartment Inside City Center Bridge] 2.
The design team at Studio H:T thought a bit outside of the box with this one. 3. Based in Flagstaff, Arizona, this collection of 6 shipping containers has been criss-crossed every which way to create an amazing dwelling. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. [BONUS ARTICLE - The Biggest Ship In The World] The ABC of Architects: An Animated Flipbook of Famous Architects and Their Best-Known Buildings. As a new-ish parent, I’ve been inundated with alphabet books from well-meaning friends and family, and I am most grateful for them all. But I’m especially glad for a set that uses images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to illustrate each letter. My daughter gets lost in the paintings, prints, etchings, etc., and you know what? So do I. It’s that rare meeting of adult high art and kid formatting that keeps us both engaged. The above video, while not strictly for children, could certainly work as well. A concept of the Argentine group Ombu Architecture and graphic designer Federico Gonzalez, “The ABC of Architects” is a vintage flipbook tribute to the last 100 years or so in international architecture, set to a jaunty, golden-age-of-radio score by Eugene C.
Rose and George Ruble (which you can download for free here). via DoobyBrain h/t Jimmy Askew Related Content The History of Western Architecture: From Ancient Greece to Rococo (A Free Online Course) Architecture in Motion. Music Translated to Architecture in Vienna Concert Hall / Alexander Smaga. Alexander Smaga‘s Postgraduate Master Thesis from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna explores the translation of music into architecture in a concert hall, creating variations in acoustic mass as a result of different biocomputing techniques. The project’s aim is to embody sound into a “mental building material,” where cavernous organic forms provide options for private and open performances as well as continuous open spaces found between folds and cavities of the cellular flesh. The project’s partie involves the visualization of single tone sound structures comprised of units of repeated cycles of electronic music, where forms acquire different levels of cellular density.
Combinations of these structures are further complicated by the subdivision and permutation of smaller units with different rhythms, a common model that is seen in biogenetics and nano technology. This translated mass creates a network of particular cell growths, forming a general dystopia. Zaha Hadid Awarded Title of Dame for Her Work in Architecture | PaperNews | Architravel | Cities Architectural Guide | online contemporary architecture travel guide. On Saturday 16 June, Queen Elizabeth II’s Birthday Honours List 2012 was published, announcing that Zaha Hadid has become a Dame. Arguably the most famous and celebrated contemporary female architect in the world, Hadid is to be awarded the title Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to architecture. Joining Hadid on the list are: Jerome Frost, Head of Design and Regeneration for the Olympic Delivery Authority who received an OBE; Dr Lori Barbara McElroy, Director of Sustainability who was awarded an MBE for services to sustainable building design; and Francesca Berriman, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists who also received an MBE.
This year, 498 women were recognised for their services on the Honours List, representing 41% of the total number of titles awarded. Overall, 1,201 people were put forward to the Queen for consideration for a title, with 1,064 being successful. Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture. Preserve or Prolong? Getty launches initiative to conserve modern architecture. With the Charles and Ray Eames House taking a cornerstone position, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) launched the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI) in March. The institute is hardly new to architectural preservation, but the GCI’s honed expertise makes them especially qualified to take on the kind of preservation conundrums that plague modern architecture as, for example, the Eameses’ use of untested-by-time mass produced flooring or Corbusier’s use of concrete.
For now, the focus is on the inaugural project. The Eames project came to the attention of the GCI when LA-based restoration architects Escher GuneWardena asked Wim de Wit, head of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute, if he could recommend conservators for the house’s mass-produced materials. “We wanted to treat this like a very precious painting,” said principal architect Frank Escher. China's Dragon-Inspired Eco Bridge. Designed by Taranta Creations, the Eco Bridge concept is a functional and aesthetically pleasing design. Built in the Chongqing mountain area of China, the bridge takes its form from that of a dragon.
Connecting the two mountains, the Eco Bridge has a gridded roof that serves to reflect sunlight. While currently in the concept phase, it's a great collaboration of aesthetics and function. Taranta Creations's website via [Beautiful Life] Tea Houses by Swatt Miers Architects. By Eric • Feb 5, 2012 • Selected Work Californian studio Swatt Miers Architects has designed the Tea Houses project. Completed in 2009, these three tea houses are located in the Silicon Valley, California, USA. Tea Houses by Swatt Miers Architects: “The idea for the tea houses originated years ago, when the owner and his young daughter explored the remote hills surrounding their Silicon Valley home, discovering an idyllic setting below a ridge, under a grove of large California Live Oak trees. Each tea house is designed as a transparent steel and glass pavilion, hovering like a lantern over the natural landscape. The three tea houses vary in size, each with its own unique purpose. The design emphasizes sustainability.
The interiors are executed with a simple palette of contrasting materials – crisply detailed steel and glass, and more ‘organic’ unfinished concrete, board formed and wire brushed to expose the wood grain, and cedar boards, recycled from the remodeling of the main house. Am. The Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall. Download PDF Press ReleaseView/purchase the Tallest 20 in 2020 poster Chicago, December 8, 2011 Within this decade we will likely witness not only the world’s first kilometer-tall building, but also the completion of a significant number of buildings over 600 meters (around 2,000 feet) – that’s twice the height of the Eiffel Tower.
Two years ago, prior to the completion of the Burj Khalifa, this building type did not exist. And yet, by 2020, we can expect at least eight such buildings to exist internationally. The term “supertall” (which refers to a building over 300 meters) is thus no longer adequate to describe these buildings: we are entering the era of the “megatall.” This term is now officially being used by the Council to describe buildings over 600 meters in height, or double the height of a supertall (see Figure 1). As we started the 21st century, just 11 short years ago, the Petronas Towers held the title of “The World’s Tallest” at 452 meters (1,483 feet) in height. The Psychology of Architecture | Wired Science We spend our lives inside buildings, our thoughts shaped by their walls. Nevertheless, there’s surprisingly little research on the psychological implications of architecture. How do different spaces influence cognition? Is there an ideal kind of architectural structure for different kinds of thinking?
At the moment, I think we’re only beginning to grasp the relevant variables of design. Christian Jarrett, for instance, highlights a new study on curved versus rectilinear furniture. Or consider this 2009 experiment, published in Science. The differences were striking. The color blue, however, carried a completely different set of psychological benefits. What accounts for this effect? Lastly, the psychologist Joan Meyers-Levy, at the Carlson School of Management, conducted an interesting experiment that examined the relationship between ceiling height and thinking style.
Furthermore, Levy found that rooms with lofty ceilings also lead people to engage in more abstract styles of thinking. Architecture | Inhabitat. Le città utopiche di Luigi Serafini. COLLEGE ART GALLERY. Demolished Bucky Fuller Dome Subject of New Documentary | News | April 29, 2010 By Shawn Kennedy How could a building that combined the genius of Buckminister Fuller and the power of the Union Tank Car Company become obsolete in little more than ten years?
That is the question posed by filmmaker Evan Mather in his recently released, 30-minute documentary, A Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminister Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome. Photo © Ivan Massar Rate this project: Based on what you have seen and read about this project, how would you grade it? Use the stars below to indicate your assessment, five stars being the highest rating. ----- Advertising ----- The steel, geodesic dome was completed in 1958 in a field north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Its value was short-lived, however. “This was supposed to be a world famous piece of architecture, and here it was a genuine ruin rusting away in the wilderness,” said 40-year-old Mather, a filmmaker and landscape architect with Los Angeles-based AHBE.