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.

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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.
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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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