ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW REDESIGN ///

International architecture magazine Architectural Review has just been redesigned by London-based Alexander Boxill. Looks great, can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.

Via Dezeen

LIEB HOUSE ///

Robert Venturi’s 1969 Lieb House is being relocated from Barnegat Light, NJ to Glen Cove, NY on Long Island. More about it here.

LE CORBUSIER’S VACATION HOME ///

Whoa. Cassina produced a 1:1 replica of Le Corbusier’s vacation home for an exhibit by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Le Corbusier built the Cabanon in 1952 for his holidays at Cap-Martin on the Cote D’Azure, retreating there every summer for more than ten years.

MOLESKINE x THE GLASS HOUSE

Yes, as in Philip Johnson’s Glass House.

The Glass House Moleskine® sketchbook features sketches by 29 architects, designers, and artists inspired by the home, quotes by Philip Johnson, and blank pages for notes or sketching. A limited edition notebook, the proceeds from it go to support the preservation and maintenance of Johnson’s famous architectural masterpiece, The Glass House (shown above).

This sketchbook is inspired by the site’s unique power of place, its role as a source of inspiration for architects, designers and artists, and the desire for visitors to pause, look closely, and document their observations as part of their site experience. In this spirit, the Glass House has launched a partnership with Moleskine®, the signature tool for creative minds, to produce a custom sketchbook.

The centerpiece of the notebook is Stephen Doyle’s 3D glass house:

Via If It’s Hip, It’s Here (Thanks Raf!)

TINY HOUSES ///

I’ve been meaning to post this for months now. I love these teeny-tiny little houses by Tumbleweed that were covered in the NY Times.

QUOTE ///

While doing some browsing at Labyrinth Books the other day I came across this spectacular quote, above, in Counterpoint, a great book on Daniel Libeskind’s work designed by Pentagram.

Spam Architecture

The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.

Via Design Observer