Magazines, Announcements, and Awards

Catching up with a bit of inbox overload this week. Some announcements from your favorite magazines. First up, the winners of the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture were recently announced:

Wall House. by FAR: Frohn & Rojas, of Santiago.

Vegetation Installation, by Taketo Simohigoshi/AAE of Tokyo.

Ecoboulevard, by the Madrid-based Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos.
Next up, Metropolis is currently accepting [...]

David Adjaye’s Whitechapel Idea Store

As an unabashed fan of David Adjaye’s work, I was very much looking forward to visiting his Whitechapel Idea Store during my recent visit to London. My expectations were high, and I’m glad to say that the building most definitely did not disappoint.
The Idea Store – Adjaye’s work in general, really – show’s an incredible [...]

The Bat House Project

The Bat House Project is the brainchild of Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller. Deller’s film “Memory Bucket,” for which he was awarded the prestigious British Prize, features eight minutes of footage of bats flying from a cave in Texas. After winning, Deller announced that he intended to build a bat habitat that “would [...]