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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Dessau, Germany - One day, a monumental structure intended as a global mausoleum could rise from the vast fields of eastern Germany's Saxony-Anhalt region. Planned for the area around the city of Dessau, a pyramid nearly twice as high as the Empire S...
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Apartment Therapy LA (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Name: Ben Wolfinsohn, director and co-founder of Stop Following Me Productions Location: Santa Monica, CA Rent or Own: Own > > Enter Slideshow When Ben sent us a link to his home, we pretty much jump
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
...By doing nothing, Cassy Fiano notes, adding that once again, the Dogpile search engine has a simple, tasteful cartoon on its homepage which does remember 9/11, and even adding the symbol that's dread by all transnationalists on Gaia's green earth,...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC, DANIEL HARDING Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 10 ***** DG 477 7347, £11.99
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
New York - Shoes, furniture and cars have been mass produced on assembly lines for years. Why doesn't the same apply for houses'This question has intrigued several architects, including Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Marcel Breuer, all of who...
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Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
In 1953 Harvard appointed an architect named Josep Sert to a powerful position. Sert had some amazing ideas. From a review of a new book about him: With the help of Walter Gropius, [Sert] was appointed dean [of the architecture school] at Harvard in 1953, where he set up the world’s first course on urban design, [...]
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Business (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Soon we will be just like snails, carrying our house with us. Well, that is soon, but for the time been we can just assembly it where we want to move. For instance, you have a house in London and want to move in Edinburgh, you don’t have to go through the madness of finding [...]
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Advances in prefab home designSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 2 hours agoScale models, photos and architectural sketches range over the prefab work of modernist innovators like Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Jean Prouve in …
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The Curated Object (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Künstler Marcel Breuer (Entwurf) Unbekannt (Hersteller) Titel Stahlrohr-Armlehnsessel Datierung Entwurf 1925 Maße Objektmaß (HxBxT): 72,8 x 77,3 x 68,6 cm Sitzhöhe vorn: 42 cm Rohrdurchmesser: 20 mm Techn./Materi. Stahlrohrgestell vernickelt, 9 Teile mit Sechskantschrauben mit gerundeten Köpfen sichtbar verschraubt, Segeltuchgurte,...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
UNESCO has added six Berlin housing projects to its World Heritage List. The homes, built in the early 1900s, served as a model of social housing that improved living conditions for low-income residents.
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO has added a group of six Berlin housing developments as one of the sites on its World Heritage List. The six complexes, which were built between 1913 and 1934, introduced a new trend of social housing construction. Among the leading architects of the projects were Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner. Germany now has a total of 33 sites on the World Heritage list,...
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Gadgets Future (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
gadgets come in many forms, from the reality defying optical illusion that is the macbook air to the hideous science fiction wet dreams from Alienware. But there is a third way, the way of brutal simplicity. These monolithic designs eschew external frills for elegance and timeless appeal. Technology Zen, if you will. Here are five machines that would make Walter Gropius proud. Voodoo Omen The HP subsidiary's...
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Design*Sponge (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Today I visited historic Newburyport. This neighboring town is where I go to when I want to meet friends for coffee, shop for gifts or just stroll along the Merrimac River boardwalk to clear my head. I love this city for its brick sidewalks and buildings and its old world feeling. Also, [...]
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Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
The Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has been taking the design world by storm in recent years. With a host of furniture and lighting products created for the likes of Moroso, B&B Italia, and Foscarini, it was only a matter of time before she took on the kitchen table. Landscape, her new collection for the revered [...]
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http://bbs.shang-shan.com/rss.php (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
walter gropius,Sunday, May 18 - International Herald TribuneToday is Sunday, May 18, the 139th day of 2008. There are 227 days left in the 3 Vote(s)