AE32: Climbing Nets

No less than three projects featuring nets – at least two for climbing – were featured in today's email from Arch Daily.OB Kindergarten and Nursery by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro:[Photo: Studio Bauhaus, Ryuji Inoue] Garrison Treehouse by Sharon Davis Design:[Photo: Elizabeth Felicella]Saigon House...

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AE31: Supershades

One of the standout projects in BIG's HOT TO COLD exhibition now at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, is what the firm calls "Magic Carpet," a media headquarters for the Middle East. The project stands out partly because it is located right at the start of the exhibition, which rings the...

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AE30: Wood Masonry

Back in 2011 I included logs as an installment in the "architectural element" series. In that post I looked at buildings, like Piet Hein Eek's study for Hans Liberg, that turned logs 90 degrees from what we usually think of in terms of log cabins. Therefore the exterior walls were made up of the center...

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AE29: Archaeological Covers

Less an architectural element than an odd sort of typology, archaeological covers serve multiple purposes: protecting ruins from the elements, particularly rain, and marking a historical site in a way that reinforces its cultural importance. The former could be accomplished through a tent-like structure,...

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