Architectual Adaptation

Wdnsdy Jun.25.2008 11:37am | by lvhrd

Chapels transformed into lofts, old airplanes reborn as railroad apartments, and vacated hangers - with their jets long gone - now shelter community water parks. Humanity’s continued swell and consumption has rendered recycling an absolute necessity, but a few forward-thinking architects see it as more than that: this is recycling as art.

The Geometry of Urban Sprawl

Tsdy Jun.3.2008 12:05pm | by lvhrd

The team at Super Colossal, an Aussie Architecture firm, recently spent some time in Google Earth flying over Canberra, an Australian city that became a playground for modernist architects & their principles throughout the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Let’s call it proto-Dubai.

Grzywinski Pons in NY Mag

Wdnsdy May.21.2008 1:10pm | by lvhrd

ARCHDL II champions Grzywinksi Pons latest build, a throughly modern home in Queens, is featured on the cover of New York Magazine’s Hyper Design issue. The home’s construction was marred by zoning ordinances and protests by neighbors, delaying completion by 8 months. One look at its features and you’ll understand why many of the neighborhoods older residents saw something they didn’t understand - and like all old people - began to complain.

More Star Wars Architectural Horseplay: Hotels & Sandcrawlers

Mndy May.12.2008 11:54am | by lvhrd

Our friends at Life Without Buildings have brought to light yet ANOTHER striking similarity between the vehicle design of early Star Wars films and famous architects.

Egypt < Dubai: Abandoned 5-Star Hotels

Wdnsdy Apr.23.2008 11:24am | by lvhrd

Before the gaze of Middle Eastern hyper-wealth affixed itself to Dubai, there was a push to bolster luxury tourism along the Sanai Peninsula.

As Dubai grew (financially and vertically) investors halted their projects, shifted their capital and resources, and left a considerable number of resorts unfinished.

If flanked by the sea, by trees, by anything lively, they would certainly be powerful images. Without the financial back story however, the desert landscape eliminates how haunting these Bellagio cadavers feel.

Seeing something abandoned, dying, dried up and in the middle of the…

LVHRD’S ARCHDL IV

Frdy Apr.18.2008 2:23pm | by lvhrd

The fourth in our Architect’s Duel series, ARCHDL IV was a timed model building competition between KONYK and FX FOWLE, held before a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg.

If you’re familiar with our Architect’s Duel, you know how it goes. The night was broken into three rounds: 30 minutes for sketching plans, 90 for building models out of an unconventional material, 10 for presenting work to the audience.

THROW DOWN:

24 hours before the event, KONYK and FXFOWLE were informed that they’d be building their models out of DRINKING STRAWS;…

New Guggenheim. The future is chrome.

Mndy Apr.14.2008 4:39pm | by lvhrd

Zaha Hadid watched Flight of the Navigator non-stop for seven years before conceiving the newest member of the Guggenheim family.

Inspired by a Polaroid

Wdnsdy Mar.26.2008 12:59pm | by lvhrd

This Polaroid from ARCH DL IV inspired this quilt.

Thanks, Sarah. Pretty cool.

Sustainable Cardboard Kid Castle

Tsdy Mar.18.2008 5:45pm | by lvhrd

Aussie architecture firm Super Colossal has created this cardboard tower-cluster in response to Sydney Design and Decoration’s call for a ‘Sustainable Room.’

Lots of sunlight, plenty of room, and check out the coup de grace from the minds behind it:
Perhaps we could embed the cardboard with seeds and as it slowly disintegrates in the rain and early morning dew, it starts a new growth, planting dense native shrubbery where the cubby house once stood.
Designs for the flatpacked house are available through Super Colossal’s blog. It’s going to be…

FXFowle to build World’s tallest arch-bridge in 2012

Tsdy Feb.12.2008 12:32pm | by lvhrd

A proposal from our friends at FXFowle has been selected in one of Dubai’s major international design competitions. Their bridge - what will serve as the world’s largest and tallest arch-bridge at it’s completion in 2012 - will do much more than look good, stand tall, and allow people to drive across a handful of waterways.

Sudhir Jambhekar, Senior Partner, FXFOWLE INTERNATIONAL, on the microphone and wheels of steel:

“We believe that our bridge design is not merely to link the City’s cultural and commercial developments or ease congestion, but an…

KONYK wins the Architects Duel

Frdy Feb.8.2008 7:39pm | by lvhrd

By a final vote of 765 to 623 KONYK has triumphed over FXFOWLE in a contest of startling ligatures to become the champions of LVHRD’s fourth Architects Duel.

Aside from the obvious fortune, glory, and pinup girls, Sean Bailey and David Iseri will also receive a lumberjack breakfast at THE LODGE: pancakes, waffles, fatback bacon, slab ham and steel oats.

To Paul Kim and James Adams from FXFOWLE: you competed with honor and dignity appropriate to your profession. for competing in the duel and thank you to Dewar’s and Brooklyn Brewery for supporting our explorations…