Our ninja Ivan Hernandez Quintela of Ludens [our first ‘Ninja of the Month’] contacted AMNP last week about new projects he’s worked on since the NotM feature - specifically, “The B...
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress. com/2009/06/05/architecture-of -energy/ Lebbeus Woods writes on the ‘Architecture of Energy’ [click the title of this post].
[Image: Iterations: Kunst-Haas, May 24th 2009] I’ve been kind of ‘on record’ as being deeply unhappy, and deeply uncomfortable about that kind of situation [’starchitect’...
The MNP fam has decided that it was finally time we ‘officially’ went ‘green’ - even tho ninjas have obviously always lived in perfect harmony with their environment. With tha...
It’s Monday! Which of course means that many of you are back at work, staring blankly at your computer screens and trying to shake off the weekend. That said, with the current state of things, ...
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OBRA Architects was kind enough to share images of their URBIA Furniture System for Small Apts in Big Cities project, completed in 2007 and winner of a 2008 ID Annual Design Review Award. Our Furnitu...
http://www.boston.com/news/loc al/massachusetts/gallery/06_25 _09_chathams_first_villiage_wa shes_away/ Chatham’s [Cape Cod] First Village succumbs to nature, as parts of the coast are reclaimed b...
Michael Jackson, ‘The King of Pop’ August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009 I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of a cultural icon, Michael Jackson. I obviously can’t s...
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/ 06/24/san-francisco-mandates-r ecycling-composting/ Not really, I assume - but San Fran has just signed mandatory recycling and composting laws into law! Crazy [click the...
The Bjarke Ingels Group has won an international competition to design Tallinn’s [Estonia] new city hall on a 35,000 square meter plot near the Linnahall building. The new design presents a clu...
http://www.architectmagazine.c om/industry-news.asp?sectionID =1006&articleID=985911 America’s obsession with supersizing has ballooned from burgers, sodas, and lattes to SUVs, houses, and n...
[iMac X Inland Steel building / swiss cheese = Al Rostamini HQ by MAD] Thanks to our ninja Chris Day for this week’s ninja math submission. ::To submit an idea for some ninja math, email us at ARCHIT...
http://sullivankreiss.wordpres s.com/2009/06/19/sullivankreis s-architectural-firm-new-listi ng/ A St. Louis firm is looking for a larger firm to buy them out, as they’re hard-up for work - like s...
Many of you [I hope] will remember our ninja - and self-described practitioner of ‘Aikido Architecture’ - Ivan Hernandez Quintela from AMNP’s first Ninja of the Month feature, where...
http://www.archdaily.com/26125 /spaceport-america-began-const ruction-last-friday/ Yes, Spaceport America actually began construction last week. And here I was, thinking that the global economy had sel...
[image, via] Monday! That means AMNP brings you its weekly collection of some interesting architecture-related links from around these here interwebs. I wish there were more - but we’ve been ha...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =a7B39MLVeIc Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 — an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06 /20/us/20triple.html?_r=1& ;hp The NY Times reports that triple deckers in New England have been hit particularly hard by the recession - my guess is that it has some...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06 /14/magazine/14prisons-t.html? _r=1&ref=magazine The NY Times talks prison deisgn - in particular, ‘weel designed’ / ‘nice’ prisons, and whet...
http://www.metropolismag.com/s tory/20090513/just-one-word-bi oplastics “As the environmental hazards of plastic become hard to ignore, a new generation of plant-based alternatives is creeping in...
[image: entry stairs to porch] Designed for a family of 4, the de Manio/Downing Residence is a single-family home occupying a 5-acre, wood site outside Boston. Meeting the demands of the contemporary...
http://www.architectsjournal.c o.uk/the-critics/top-10-the-ar chitecture-of-star-wars-pt-i/5 203458.article?referrer=RSS The Architects’ Journal has created a ‘Top 10′ list of the arch...
[’09 2nd place: The living bridge, Nicola Marchi + Adelaïde Marchi] The eVolo Skyscraper Competition has definitely evolved into a really interesting way to test and showcase new ideas for high...
Anyone who has dropped by AMNP in the past week or so has seen that the site has suffered both from my being asleep at the wheel, and some kind of server access issues. We’ve apparently been sw...
http://video.google.com/videop lay?docid=7226391105498160058 I was surprised to come across an architecture-related Charlie Rose video that hadn’t already been featured here on AMNP - this one f...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06 /12/business/energy-environmen t/12bonneville.html …goodbye dams? Apparently the growth of wind energy is raising new questions about tearing down old dams. [click ...
http://www.architecture.com/Aw ards/RIBAInternationalAwards/2 009/Winners2009.aspx Check out the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards [click the title of this post].
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06 /11/world/europe/11paris.html? _r=1 So what will Sarkozy do with his plans for Paris, now that grand schemes have been proposed by a number of architects / planners? [cli...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =V4GQnzzkmDE .:via->Inhabitat .:The High Line->
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