Lasting Values

But, see above: the durability of natural stone always makes the investment worth the while. And, as far as return on investment is concerned, natural stone shows yet another positive effect: it brings good fortune.
A beautiful home with lasting values is one, in which dwellers are happy and proud to have treated themselves to the added value.http://www.stone-ideas.com/2014/02/28/securing-wealth-and-good-fortune-for-your-home-with-natural-stone/

Shifting Architecture

The Paradox of Shifting Architecture is a thesis project by Ahmed Shokir which explores the process of developing an architecture which responds to a site that is rapidly moving. Through a design feedback loop that negotiates between changing physical site conditions, computational representations of material behavior simulations, and fabricated prototypes, the result manifested is a particular architectural-material to operate on shifting terrain.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/the-paradox-of-shifting-architecture/

Dubai Days

Art and design events like Design Days Dubai have helped bring about a dramatic change in the city, which has of late acquired a more cultured and nurturing approach to design...http://www.australiandesignreview.com/news/39899-design-days-dubai

Honolulu Art

More than 100 invited artists converged on Honolulu for this year’s POW! WOW! Hawai‘i 2014—a weeklong event celebrating street art with gallery shows, lectures, mural projects, concerts and even schools for art and music. On Saturday, Feb. 8, a reception for the event’s opening exhibition, POW! WOW!: Exploring the New Contemporary Art Movement—curated by Andrew Hosner of California’s Thinkspace Gallery—was held at the Honolulu Museum of Art School

http://blog.honoluluacademy.org/hanasaurusrex/

to Architect a Dress

The Verlan dress is 3d printed by MarkerBot, now commercially available machine. The dress is the final result of the three-week digital fashion workshop held by fashion designer Fransis Bitonti, in New York. The theme of the project was not to design a piece of clothes but to design a method of making form using computers.http://www.evolo.us/architecture/3d-printed-dresses-a-new-fashion-trend/

a Global Architect

Globalisation has brought with it many things: the ability to travel, to recognise familiarity in any city, and, most importantly for us, to create trans-continental opportunity in design...http://www.australiandesignreview.com/features/39831-should-you-become-a-global-architect

Photography & Architecture

Photography & Architecture makes the work of architectural photographers more transparent, offering information and resources on what the industry and its professionals are like. More than ever, the reputation of an architect rests upon images of their built work, but the professional relationship between architect and photographer isn’t always clear.
http://archinect.com/news/article/93807273/wide-lens-a-new-column-on-architectural-photography

Stone Group International in Vitoria Brazil

Stone Group International ( Marmor SG SA), one of the largest marble quarrying, processing & trading companies in Greece, exporting in 65 countries, would like to invite you to Vitoria Stone Fair-Marmomacc Latin America 2014, scheduled for the period of the 18th to the 21st of February in Vitoria Brazil.

Stone Group International will present the new collection of “12 Mythic Marbles”, comprising exclusive & unique materials reflecting Greek Mythology. Every marble has its own myth related to the region where it is extracted from.

The company personally invites you to visit its booth 310/311 Pavilion 3 and experience the best material selection. Company’s representatives will be there to inform you for its strategic development and its global expansion.

Water, Sky, Earth

This project is a winning entry conceived by architects Chi Wai Chan, Xinyu Wan, and Geng Ke for a competition to design an arts and cultural square at Lake Sanyon in Daqing, China. The project examines the relationships between the elements of water, sky, and earth.http://www.evolo.us/architecture/arts-square-in-daqing-china-explores-the-relationship-of-water-sky-and-earth/

The "active citizen"

The "active citizen" is considered as emitter and carrier of some transcendental kind of value, called "virtue". Her virtue spreads by her action through her circulation along physical and electronic networks.

This circulatory model is supplemented with a radiological one, in order to explain the emission of ethical values by the "energetic" individual into the social field. Here I refer to another explanatory model for the circulation of the "active" one into and through the social body, as a carrier of therapeutic properties. So, we could talk about an anti-biotic influence of the "active citizen" -- let's call this antibiotic properly: "Acticit".http://www.greekarchitects.gr/en/twelve-and-after/τhe-antibiotic-acticit-id6963

The Abedian School of Architecture

The Abedian School of Architecture is located on a Queensland campus designed in the 1980s by Arata Isozaki and forms part of the Faculty of Architecture and Sustainable Design at Bond University. Winning the competition in January 2011, CRAB was awarded the contract and the building was completed in 2013. http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=23788&region=6

Who needs architecture books?

Who needs architecture books?” asked UCLA professor Sylvia Lavin at a discussion this week at L.A.’s Architecture and Design Museum. The event marked the publication of L.A. Ten, a volume filled with transcriptions of interviews that California Polytechnic State University associate professor Stephen Phillips and his students conducted with 10 architects...http://www.architectmagazine.com/books/there-is-still-hope-for-architecture-books_o.aspx?dfpzone=culture

Over the Courtyard

On Wednesday, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) named David Benjamin this year's recipient of the Young Architects Program, an annual competition to create an installation in the museum's Long Island City location, PS1. Benjamin's firm, New York-based The Living, will be the next to take over this courtyard, and transform it into a outdoor space fit for the museum's summer concert series, "Warm Up."
http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/the-history-of-moma-ps1-young-architects-program_o.aspx?dfpzone=home&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=jump&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANW_021014&day=2014-02-10

Barcelona Architect

The Barcelona architect and designer behind the 8-bit architect portraits and movie architecture illustrations has now imagined a city of 26 letter-shaped buildings, each representing an architect. Federico Babina completed his "ARCHIBET" series in January.http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/federico-babina-creates-architecture-abcs-illustrations_o.aspx?dfpzone=home

Nano- particle Nylon

Sometimes it’s as simple as a new way to use a 2-by-2 to form a bench that morphs into a building. Sometimes it's a nanoparticle-treated nylon echinoderm that eats smog. No matter what, the installation is always a party with a high IQ attended by all—from the coolest Brooklynite to the toddler barely able to wade into a biomorphic pool.

http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/museum-of-modern-art-ps1-young-architects-program-2014-david-benjamin-the-living-hy-fi-moma_o.aspx?dfpzone=home&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=jump&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANW_020614&day=2014-02-06

Canactions

Wonderland - platform for European architecture is a Vienna/Austria based network for exchanging experiences, information and knowledge for young Europe-oriented architecture practices.http://www.canactions.com/en/canactions-2012-spring

New South Wales Students

The five New South Wales students heading to Copenhagen in January to take part in the inaugural MADE by the Opera House student exchange program between NSW and Denmark have been announced...http://www.australiandesignreview.com/architecture/37882-made-by-the-opera-house-exchange-winners-announced

Giant Oceanscapes

The inspiration for my drawings began in early childhood when I traveled with my family throughout several of the world’s most remote landscapes, which were the subject of my mother’s fine art photography. After my formal training at Skidmore college I now exhibit extensively in galleries and venues throughout the United States and overseas...http://mydesignstories.com/giant-pastel-oceanscapes-icebergs-drawn-zaria-forman/

Swarm Intelligence

Swarm intelligence is a revolutionary new theory, which has the ability to manage functions and complex systems in the human environment. This can be found in a disciplinary field that range from research in regards to the behavior of biological organism to the analysis of a financial problem. In this way, swarm intelligence can help us to explain, understand and solve complex systems based on simple rules. Therefore, swarm intelligence come to incorporate simple rules in architecture design in order to manage complex problems and to adapt in different situations.http://www.greekarchitects.gr/en/projects2012/structural-swarming-in-sea-caves-id8432