Jennifer Siegal
Jennifer Siegal first grabbed our attention in 2006, as a prefab pioneer with an abundance of percolating ideas. Fast-forward, and the 44-year-old's eco-friendly visions are coming to fruition. Her first completed ...READ»
ZETA Communities isn't wasting any time in rolling out its "net zero energy" modular multi-family homes in California. The San Francisco-based startup, which opened a 91,000 square foot net zero housing factory late year, is ...READ»
In the two weeks following the publication of "Look Who's Curing Cancer" (May), about IBM's campaign to recruit the public to volunteer their idle computers for medical research, World Community Grid added 11,000 computers, the ...READ»
The prefab homes of the future won't just be relatively cheap and easy to build on the fly--they'll also be ultra-sustainable. For evidence of what these homes will look like, we need only direct our attention toward this year's ...READ»
L.A. isn't known as a leader in the cleantech industry. In California, that distinction falls squarely on the Bay Area--specifically Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Now L.A. hopes to get up to speed with the CleanTech ...READ»
If you were in the market for an introduction to the New Urbanism -- what is it for? what is it against? what is it about, really? -- your choices on the opening day of the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU 18) were either a ...READ»
Sporting a super-private location, the master-planned community of Scottsdale Mountain is an exclusive guard-gated enclave just north of Shea Boulevard on 136th Street. Tucked tight against the fabulous foothills of the McDowell ...READ»
Hospitals are some of the worst buildings around. But plenty of research shows that physical surroundings can improve health. Which is what makes the Maggie's Centre initiative so brilliant.READ»
Highly regarded world-wide as an architectural innovator, the legendary Paolo Soleri established the Cosanti Foundation in Paradise Valley, Arizona in 1956. Since that time, Cosanti has been the headquarters for this nonprofit ...READ»
Andre Kikoski, who was brave enough to take on the challenge of designing a restaurant within Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece museum, the Guggenheim, was just named the 2010 James Beard Foundation Award winner for Outstanding ...READ»
1968 Hal 9000
2001: A Space Odyssey's supercomputer sets the bar: Hal could interpret emotions, anticipate requests, and co-opt systems on an interplanetary voyage.
1987 LesConcierges
Jaguar and Genentech still use this ...READ»
Michael Stein
CEO, Darkstrand
Chicago
Stein, 40, offers companies access to a superfast network that can transfer vast amounts of data, in real time, from 187 universities and research institutions.
"We found a unique asset ...READ»
Surprise, surprise! The Pritzker committee makes history by awarding architecture's top honors to its first male-and-female duo, designers of NYC's iconic museum and the Rolex Learning Center in Switzerland.READ»
Jean Nouvel, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2008, is to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London. For the past decade, the gallery, situated in Hyde Park, has been home to some of the most innovative pop-up structures ...READ»
I'd love to write about your latest architectural masterpiece, I really would. If only your Web site wasn't such an information architecture disaster.READ»
The notoriously metallic starchitect goes back to his roots with a cheap, plywood design for the Signature Theater Company. Don't worry--it still looks wild.READ»
At a time when extreme weather events seem to be relatively common, would you feel safe living in a home made out of recycled plastic? Affresol, a U.K. modular home designer, is betting on it. The company is launching a range of ...READ»
I'll
be speaking in NYC Friday 3/19 at GoGreenExpo's Business Day. Business
buyers get in free on Friday. If you'd like to attend Saturday and/or
Sunday, here's a discount code (gets you into the Architecture Fair
also): visit ...READ»
