Competition: win two books that celebrate the career of Frank Lloyd Wright

June 8, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Dezeen is giving three readers the chance to win a pair of books that celebrate the 150th anniversary of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Today marks 150 years since the American architect was born, and to honour the occasion publishers Lund Humphries have reissued a new edition of Wright’s 1939 book, An Organic Architecture: The

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Waving Stone / JOHO Architecture

June 8, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

This project is designed for the complex facilities combined with a restaurant and the   residential facilities which are located at the entrance of a famous Korea representative mountain – Mt. Keryong. This site is located at the heart of Mt. Keryong unfolding to 4 sides and also to be unfolded to 360 degrees of Korea’s beautiful mountain views. Such features of the site could render the beautiful sceneries of a Korea’s beautiful mountain, which has been the main design issues how to put these and rebuild them into a commercial space. In other words, as a design not deviated from the surrounding sceneries but integrated into nature, we intended to compose the architecture as a new symbol of the national park.

14 Modern Wood Wall Clocks To Spruce Up Any Decor

June 8, 2017 Keely 0

  Although most of us can find out the time by quickly checking our phones, there’s something to be said for taking a moment to look away from a screen and check the time on a beautifully crafted wall clock. Here are 14 examples of modern wood wall clocks that will have you wanting to […]

Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive opens at New York’s MoMA

June 8, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

A major retrospective exhibition examining the drawings and models of legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has opened today, coinciding with what would have been his 150th birthday. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive presents almost 400 objects from the architect’s vast collection of materials, which was jointly acquired by MoMA and the

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3D Copypod / People’s Architecture Office

June 8, 2017 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

The 3D Copypod is a 3D scan booth that can instantly digitize subjects of a wide range of sizes. Objects are surrounded by a spherical array of over one hundred fixed focal length DSLR cameras. Each camera is attached to a node of the Hoberman-inspired, isokinetic structure. With minimal adjustment, the 3D Copypod can contract to scan small objects and expand large enough to scan a group of people. Folding panels that are lit from the interior enclose the structure of the 3D Copypod to ensure a shadowless photography environment.

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Deepdene House / Kennedy Nolan

June 8, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

The family commissioning this house had lived on the site for many years and after a short-lived move to a much larger house and garden in a nearby street concluded that they felt very connected to their old street and its people. The existing house couldn’t cope with their large family of seven and an investigation of alterations and additions to the existing house led them to the conclusion that a new house was required.

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New Drone Footage Shows Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee Marching Toward Completion

June 8, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

The V&A Museum of Design Dundee has released new drone footage as the Kengo Kuma-designed project races toward its 2018 opening. At this stage, huge cast stone panels, weighing between 1.5 and 2.5 tonnes each, are being fixed in place on the curving exterior walls. Once complete, a total of 2,466 panels will wrap around the museum’s facade, the design of which has been inspired by the natural seaside terrain of Scotland’s northeastern coast.

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Shop Houzz: Bestselling Rugs Under $199 (127 photos)

June 8, 2017 Houzz 0

Pull your room together and highlight your style and color palette with the right area rug. Support any amount of foot traffic on tile or hardwood by finding a suitable option in this collection organized by tone.Sale ends June 14, 2017….