St Ignatius Chapel – Steven Holl Building, Architect

St Ignatius Chapel - Steven Holl Building

Seven bottles of light in a stone box; the metaphor of light is shaped in different volumes emerging from the roof whose irregularities aim at different qualities of light: East facing, South facing, West and North facing, all gathered together for one united ceremony.

Moshe Safdie II – Architecture Book

Moshe Safdie II, Second Practice Monograph – architecture book contains a collection of work from 1996-2008 – Moshe Safdie book: Essays by William J. Mitchell and Thomas Fisher; Edited by Diana Murphy

Scottish National Online Database: Canmore

Forth Bridge Construction Scotland

A national online database that holds information on and images of more than 280,000 of Scotland’s buildings and built archaeology opens its files today (Tuesday, August 11) so that members of the public can add their own knowledge directly to its archives.

Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco

Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco

The site is at the intersection of Park Presidio and Clement Street. An early plan established a pair of religious structures as gateposts along this boulevard. One is the strong presence of the neo-classical Christian Science Church.

Grangegorman House, Ireland Property

This new residential development, for a motorcycle enthusiast, adjacent to No.10 Grangegorman Villas, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 is an alternative reaction to the more traditional city centre infill residential projects.

Almere Residential Building: Gigon/Guyer

The location is unusual – the Dutch town of Almere is not a place that has grown naturally but rather was planned on a drawing board, originating after the war as polder land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer Lake. The Masterplan for the new town centre was developed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Almere Towers Building: de Architekten Cie.

Side by Side: located on the border between the city centre and Weerwater lake, two residential towers strike a key note in the urban landscape of Almere centre. To bolster their landdmark character the facades have a deliberately abstract rendering in industrial glass.

Xixi Wetland Art Museum Building, China

Xixi Wetland Art Museum Building, China

Located in a rural nature preserve near Hangzhou, the Xixi Wetland Art Museum will be a destination for both nature and art. The design respects the surroundings, yet is an innovatively modern expression of humanity and art.

MoMA Tower Alternative – Axis Mundi Design

MoMA Tower Alternative New York, Architect, Image, Design, Project, News MoMA New York Architecture MoMA Tower Proposal by Axis Mundi, Manhattan, USA Aug 4, 2009 MoMA Tower Design Axis Mundi unveils Conceptual Alternative Design for MoMA Tower at 53 West 53rd Street A Vision Thing : The Uninvited Vertical Hood for MoMA An interview with John … Read more