Future Architecture

Molly Meyer LLC is launching a series of live webinars on sustainable building topics. Every month starting in 2010, we'll host other independent consultants who are experts in areas of sustainability including photovoltaic systems, rainwater harvesting, home energy audits, wind power, integrated design, and much more. These experts from across the USA will present via live online feed to attendees around the world. (AIA/CES credit will be available for many.)

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How can architecture contribute to a more open outwardly-oriented living style in high rises? Any suggestions? Read about this out-of-box design solution and leave us your views.

Based on their core purpose - residential or commercial or both, building design demands sensitivity clubbed with pragmatic approach; besides the number game, which is the crux of any estate. A skillful approach to this genre is exhibited by Park Associati architects from Milan in the design of a residential cum commercial building in a hilly wooded area in Azzate, (VA), Italy.

Photography: Nigel Young; Hufton & Crow; Courtesy: Foster+Partners Foster & Partners incorporate ambitious environmental strategy in a new sculptural addition to the city of London... Wrapped in a grid of highly reflective cast- aluminium brise soleil, shimmering in the bright sunshine, casting intriguing chiaroscuro effects on the street side, the Walbrook office building stands tall, distinctly individualistic, yet contextually alluding to the historical fabric of its neighbourhood .

If architecture is music in stone can its "limbs" dance? Architecture only remains still in pic­tures. In real life its natural state is one of tran­sition. Both man and light move within it. Inside a house among coarse Mediterranean glades and corrugated stone walls, a slanting light, pierced by innumerable narrow repeated blades, inscribes and describes the walls with its imper­manent, mutable hand.

The Cube is a design marvel with the lightness and versatility of an exhibition stand and the design complexity of a building; adapting to its various locales with minimal physical adjustments, whilst the original exterior and interior flavour of the structure is still intact...

A constantly ticking brain cohabiting with a continually seeking mind makes the body agile and inspired. Profiling Ar. Jim Olson has been like meeting 'dynamism' in person and understanding that where vocation is passion, there is no delineation between the man and his work...Click on the link to read more>>

Transparence a forum for architecture students conducts events throughout the year. The purpose is to bring innovative ideas in architecture for a bright future in building design.

The Transparence website has a gallery of photographs for the award winners for recent events . To know more details please visit the website.

Heritage buildings keep alive our roots, giving the present generations a sense of pride and hope for a grounded future... While 1857 is a year remembered instantaneously for its Indian Mutiny, a lesser remembered fact is that it was the year when a premier education institute - the Mumbai University was established.

The 9-million-square-foot Marina Bay Sands is a beautiful blend of geometry and mathematics- an integration of order and complexity... a flying visit... It takes years of planning, executing and finishing gargantuan structures that become beacons of socio-cultural progress and hi-profile entertainment venues for public at large.

Photography: Andre J Fanthome; Courtesy Morphogenesis Institutional design offers the ultimate exploration in design; not only are there no set demarcations; even the exploratory becomes congenial... The brief for the architecture of JRE Group of Institutions, Delhi, was concise: "Create a new urban development that allows for infinite possibility and flexibility, yet defines the academic settlement."

Information & Photography: Foster +Partners When it comes to design with iconography, stalwarts like Hadid, Rohe, Holl, Foster + Partners etc. - the 'big' league, so to say, create masterpieces that not only have a local impact but become a global benchmark for organic iconic architecture.

Eminent Indian Woman Architect, Ar. Brinda Somaya, who has to her credit several key accomplishments in the field of architecture, conservation and urban planning initiatives is awarded Honorary Doctorate by the Smith College... Brinda Chinnappa Somaya, Indian Architect and Urban Conservationist steps into the prestigious Smith College league of celebrated Honours.

In the architectural and building sectors, we have explored, promoted and dissected the fact that we are currently battling greenwash so much, that we may in fact be greenwashing the aforementioned greenwash. Indeed the term is so readily bandied about, that it no longer makes sense and is therefore responded to as a null and void sentiment. As confusing as that may seem, it holds the key to the reason that we are stuck in a vicious industry cycle that is unfortunately blocking the promotion of some incredible, and highly sustainable, built projects. Due to a confusion and misrepresentation of certain green and sustainable buildings and features, a number of these incredible designs, and their built forms, are being lost in the jungle of false green advertisement. One incredible design that, more often than not, does not receive the deserved appreciation is that of the humble Earthship.

The architecture industry has been in recent times exploring the growing world of artificial organisms. We have continuously covered this increasing trend, with examples of man-made organics in China and Singapore, varying from artificial islands, to trees and most recently coral reefs. It is no surprise that through the heightened levels of toxins and rubbish now running into our oceans everyday that certain sections of incredibly valuable, and aesthetically stunning underwater environments are dying. This is caused by various reasons including: the everyday home owner chemical run offs, the larger oil spills and natural disasters, but the fact is, we are killing it faster than it is able to grow back.

By Flying Elephant Studio Photography: Manoj Sudhakaran; Courtesy the architects A true synthesis of contemporary sustainable architecture meets the eye in an energy-efficient design that is inviting, user friendly, thermally comfortable and aesthetically stimulating.