matthewgallaway:

Check out this slide they’re installing in the New Museum. I seriously think that slides like this should be a requirement in every building in the world New York City. I think it would solve many problems related to ppl thinking they’re better than everyone else (“hey buddy — take the slide and then we’ll talk”) and also allow for a new WPA as buildings were retrofitted. I’m exaggerating here, obviously, but only a little. The only bad thing is that you’re going to have to wear a helmet and pads — at least on this one — which :(

via Curbed

greatspaces:

New documents confirm Foster + Partners as the architects, working with ARUP North America and Kier & Wright, a local civil engineering firm that has worked on Apple’s current campus and buildings for other tech companies (eBay, Nvidia, Cisco, Netflix and Sun, among others).

About the program:

• An Office, Research and Development Building comprising approximately 2.8 million square feet for up to 13,000 employees
•  A 1,000 seat Corporate Auditorium
•  A Corporate Fitness Center
•  Research Facilities comprising approximately 300,000 square feet
• A Central Plant
• Associated Parking

It’s a pretty amazing building. It’s a little like a spaceship landed. It’s got this gorgeous courtyard in the middle… It’s a circle. It’s curved all the way around. If you build things, this is not the cheapest way to build something. There is not a straight piece of glass in this building. It’s all curved. We’ve used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. And, we want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building… It’s pretty cool.

- Steve Jobs

freak-is-chic:

Szotynscy Zaleski

The Krzywy Domek, as it is originally called, is part of the Rezident shopping center in Sopot, Poland. It is three stories high, has a total of about 4,000 square meters and is now the “residence” of a pub called the Wonky Pub. Although it’s architecture is similar to that of the surrounding buildings, this Crooked House seems weary or melting. Ever since it was built, in 2004, the Crooked House became Poland’s most photographed building.

This unusual house is the result of Polish architect’s Szotynscy Zaleski  imaginative mind, who was inspired by Jan Marcin Szancer‘s fairytale illustrations and also by Per Dahlberg’s art, whose drawings you can find inside the Krzywy Domek. (video).

usingtherightsideofmybrain:

Watervilla de Omval by +31 Architects

Dutch architects have created this house boat on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

“The exterior is clad in aluminium while the interior curves are rendered in white plaster.”

robert:

arne jacobsen, aarhus town hall 1937-1942 by seier+seier on Flickr.

archi-tecture:

“Zaha Hadid, une architecture” exhibition at l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, from 29 avril 2011 to 30 octobre 2011

ledossiernoire:

Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut 

Elements of different architects theories:

Use of Barcelona funiture from Mies van der Rohe 

Central Hearth (Fireplace) - Frank Lloyd Wright 

Free and open plan: Wright & van der Rohe