Exhibition Review 2 in New York

Exhibition Review 2:
The Center for Architecture's New Show

Join ENR Editor Nadine M Post as she takes us behind the scenes of "Make it Work," the new exhibiton at New York's Center for Architecture

Exhibition Review 2:

The Cool Hunter

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Yanko Design

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Yanko Design is a web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design, covering from industrial design, concepts, technology, interior design, architecture, exhibition and fashion. It’s about the cutting edge and the classic, the new and the rediscovered. It’s all about the best.

Yankodesign.com reaches a rapidly expanding audience of approximately 380,000+ unique users, viewing 2 million pageviews each month with 11,000+ total daily newsletter subscribers making it the world’s most popular & influential online design magazine.

SkyFarm

Toronto scientist Gordon Graff has created plans for a 58-floor concept building - the SkyFarm - which would grow crops in the heart of the city and could provide enough food for 35,000 people every day.

Articles via:
The Independent
Treehugger

MaterialEcology

Neri Oxman's MaterilEcology investigates the nexus of nature, design, and computation. Four of her projects are in MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibitions.

http://materialecology.com

Ben Van Berkel's First Major American Building Begins Construction in New York City

Construction begins in New York City on Ben van Berkel's latest, most ambitious and beautiful re-interpretation of standard domestic architecture: Five Franklin Place, UNStudio's first major American project, will be a 20-story residential tower on Franklin Place, an original 19th century cobbled passageway that runs parallel to Broadway and connects Franklin and White Streets in the Tribeca historic district of Downtown Manhattan. The building will be wrapped in an optically dazzling, constantly shifting pattern of horizontal black metal bands sewn onto its form the way decorative seams and pleats are sewn onto a luxurious couture garment.
Read whole article here.

LEED House

Tom Weber stands in back of the Narragansett house that he expects will receive the LEED gold standard and be a model for other environmentally “green” houses in the state and elsewhere. The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo
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Check out how the house works.