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Chile > Information about the house designed by Chilean architect Sebastian Irarrazaval into the exclusive condominium Ocho al Cubo [Tell Magazine].

“Weather Patterns“, a permanent light installation designed by loop.pH, combines traditional decorated surface and new technologies into an architectural structure, to let the building on which it’s mounted communicate weather changes during the night. How the installation works (video) >>>

The Container Home Kit (CHK) is a modular dwelling created by LOT-EK (Ada Tolla + Giuseppe Lignano) assembling several containers >>>

Conference held in Monterey (feb 2006) by Joshua Prince-Ramus of R.E.X.- Ramus-Ella Architects (ex OMA New York). He’s the architect of the Seattle Public Library, already inaugurated, and the designer of Dallas Wyly Theater and Museum Plaza (Louisville, Kentucky). Video > TED Blogsource > Archinect

Images of construction (july 06) of the Olympic Stadium designed by Herzog & De Meuron for 2008 Games, that will take place in Beijing (China) [SkyscraperCity Forums].

Chile > Carver’s studio by Cristian Larrain Bonta in Vitacura (Santiago). “Carver’s work, involving both small and big sculptures, poses a main problem concerning scale change in architecture. Through height changes, variety of light sources and a wide range of views, the building was created to contain different dimensions, qualifying the space to give room […]

Valencia > The foredeck building designed by David Chipperfield and Fermin Vazquez for the 32nd Edition of the America’s Cup, that will take place in 2007 [con-form@]

Images (07/06/06) of Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Rem Koolhaas + Cecil Balmond: it will open to the public on July 13th [Flickr].More images > Gabionsource > dezain.net

Portugal > ‘Casa Milhundos’, designed by Francisco Portugal e Gomes, is an isolated single family house situated in the city of Penafiel (Cavalum River Valley). The house comprises two well separated volumes, conceived as autonomous functional cores, but complementary in dialectic: light/dark, public/private, low/high. The two bodies are related by the hall, that at the […]

Images of construction of the “BLUE Condominium“, apartment building designed by Bernard Tschumi in Manhattan [Curbed].source > archidose

Steven Holl Architects won the first prize in the international competition organised by the city of Helsinki for the Taivallahti residential area [Archiportale.com].

Spain and Portugal > information about finalists’works for 2006 FAD architecture awards [arquinfad.org].