Photo © Sam Noonan
Talk about resting gently on the land. Australian architect Max Pritchard has designed a narrow, 1,200-square-foot box that is literally in the trees—spanning a creek and sitting on two steel trusses. The home was built with sustainability as a primary goal, including solar cells, passive heating and cooling, and recycled and recyclable materials.
Photo © Ivan Brody
We examine nine Private School projects, including the Oslo International School in Norway, the Wheeler School in Rhode Island, and the Saint Matthew's Parish School in California.
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RECORD’s photo galleries contain thousands of images submitted by our community of readers. On a biweekly basis, we present a top-ten list of our favorite contributions to the galleries, which feature everything from residential and green projects to architects’ drawings and architectural photography.
Pictured: My San Francisco
If you haven’t visited our video library, you’re missing dozens of clips designed to inform, inspire and, yes, entertain. Interviews with leading architects. Building tours hosted by top designers. Episodes of Good Design Is Good Business. And much more.
Photo courtesy Charles Jencks
Machine in the Garden: American theorist, architect, and (increasingly) landscape architect Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick created a 30-acre garden on a Scottish family estate that engages both the mind and the senses.
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Photo © Curt Campbell
Bay Area architect Chris Downey lost his sight last year, but rather than changing careers, he has adapted his practice. Downey is now bringing his particular expertise as a blind architect to a design for the Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center at the Palo Alto veterans’ hospital.
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Photo © Daniel Moulinet
This month, our portfolio features projects that work with and within the landscape. Their varied programs include a museum among ruins, a river-hugging park, a cocoon-like chapel, and a Japanese island turned art space.
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Photo © Arnold Newman/Corbis
Robert Campbell visits the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition at the Guggenheim and discovers it doesn’t work with the building’s architecture. Read two additional takes on the show in our Featured Events column and in this month’s Editorial.
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Although U.S. economy battered many architecture firms last year, strangely enough total 2008 revenue for the Top 250 firms was up 9 percent over 2007. Check to see where your firm placed on the list.
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In our expansive special section covering architecture and the economic crisis, track the U.S. stimulus plan and read reports on projects around the world. Find tips on keeping your firm afloat, coping with layoffs, and more in our Architect’s Survival Guide. And look at what today’s designers can learn from past recessions. |
Gilbert Wilk and Ana Salinas of Berlin-based Wilk Salinas find themselves designing projects some might call impossible—public pools on floating barges, an old bridge transformed into a hotel. Also, find out how 23-year-old architecture student Lukas Petrash began his career by designing and building a 484-square-foot house out of leftover building materials.
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Image courtesy HDR and Loisos + Ubbelohde
This month’s technology feature explores the evolution of glass facades since early Modernism. It focuses on three innovative projects, designed for three very different climates, which maximize transparency while maintaining environmental performance.
TerraSpan lift and slide doors
Our focus on doors includes a new “human-energy-powered” revolving door concept intended to increase sustainable awareness. This month's tradeshow coverage includes a roundup of the Milan Furniture Fair and the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show, including some Web-exclusive coverage.
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RECORD’s sister publication, GreenSource, publishes in-depth, data-rich reports on sustainable design and green-building performance. And the new Green Building Project Search lets you easily search our archive of case studies using many criteria, including LEED score and products used in the project.
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Photo courtesy pldp architects Every month, RECORD’s sister publication, GreenSource magazine, selects a standout residential project for an online tour that highlights its sustainable elements. This month, we visit a house perched on a 150-foot cliff overlooking the historic port of Athens, Greece, and designed by U.S.-based pldp architects.
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Do you have questions about what’s new in LEED 3.0? Scot Horst, senior VP of LEED at the U.S. Green Building Council, will answer your questions and respond to your comments in our LEED forum.
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Image courtesy lavora RECORD’s photo galleries contain thousands of images submitted by our community of readers. On a biweekly basis, we present a top-ten list of our favorite contributions to the galleries, which feature everything from residential and green projects to architects’ drawings and architectural photography. |
