Team Germany Wins Solar Decathlon…Again

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this international contest after already snatching the title in Solar Decathlon’s last edition in 2007.

from Bustler.net News by Vanilla Hustler

Multi-tenant Project in Fukuyama

UID Architects projected a multi-tenant building to enclose a dental clinic, an beauty salon and UID’s architectural office. The building, located in a long and narrow plot surrounded on all three sides by neighboring houses, has a cedar-clad plywood shell that neatly encloses the steel structure. The dental clinic is located on the first floor while the beauty salon and the architectural office are on the send floor. Truly a mixed-program regarding the businesses in the multi-tenant building.

from CoolBoom by Sylvia

Slit Court by EASTERN Design Office

Japanese architects EASTERN design office have completed a five-storey residential project in Sumizome, Kyoto, Japan. (more…)

from Dezeen by Jasmin Gunkar

Aluminium House / Arhitektid Muru & Pere

The idea was to have two stories of a different kind of building. The concept was born out of the wrist movement when scribbling on paper. The area allowed for building was very long and narrow due to multiple restrictions. We began piling the rooms in one row at one end until we met the border; then we turned the room itself backwards and that is how the building obtained its current form.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

OMA / REX architecture: wyly theatre opens in dallas

the dee and charles wyly theatre, dallas has opened today. the wyly theatre part of the city's new AT & T performing arts center is designed by joshua prince-ramus (partner in charge, now REX) and rem koolhaas (founder of OMA). unlike a typical theatre, the wyly accommodates back-of-house and front-of-house areas above and beneath the auditorium rather than wrapped around it, liberating its perimeter – a glass façade with optional blackout blinds – for direct contact with the urban surroundings. passers by have the chance to glimpse the action inside; the theatre itself, which seats up to 575 and can offer views of the city of dallas as a backdrop.

from Designboom - Weblog

NZI Centre / Jasmax

The NZI Centre is a commercial office building located in Auckland’s CBD. It is an integrated design, with the architectural and interior/workplace elements both designed by Jasmax alongside one another, but with two different clients.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Q-house by asensio_mah

Spanish architects asensio_mah have designed a house on a steep site in the north of Spain. (more…)

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington

RMJM: win islamic architecture award for zliten campus, libya

RMJM architects have received the islamic architecture award for their work on
the zliten campus at asmariya university for islamic sciences in libya at the cityscape
awards in dubai, 2009. the zliten campus is a new branch of al asmariya university, located 75 miles southeast of tripoli. RMJM’s architects designed a campus master plan for the development of the 202-acre site. core academic functions are organized in four quadrants within a perimeter habitable wall that houses faculty offices and academic support functions.

from Designboom - Weblog