Witold Rybczynski on Green Cities.
This is one of the smartest entries on sustaiable urban growth we’ve ever read. Check it out. It’s…
Pig City Revisited
No, this is not another post about MVRDV’s infamous porcine skyscraper containing “pregnancy parlors,” “delivery dens,” and “truffle…
UK Bat House
Two architecture students from the Architectural Association in London, Jorgen Tandberg from Oslo and Yo Murata from Tokyo…
Pseudo Bony Architecture
It’s been a remarkably busy week in the animal architecture world. Bat houses, fish texting, and profound words…
3000 Page Views!
We’re happy to announce that Animal Architecture has just crested the 3,000 page view mark since opening up…
Biomimicry Decried
Harvard Magazine features two “ecologically sensitive” projects from HOK and opens up a fruitful discussion regarding bio-mimicry. Bio-mimicry…
Review: “Top 10: Architecture of Pets”
...it's about understanding how to build in relationship to, and in conversation with these "our most other 'others.'"
Top 10: Best Architecture of Pets
This was just brought to our attention and looks to be very interesting. It seems that there is…
Flight Path
This project comes from Marina Nicollier, a recent graduate of Rice University’s M. Arch program. The project was…
Super-Size Park (Shelby Farms)
Field Operations aims to answer some of these questions through their design, which segments the park into these…
Post of the week: Growing Buildings!
Man are we exhausted! We’ve got a whole lot of good content in the pipes, butterfly attracting factories,…
OOZ; Natalie Jeremijenko
This is our follow-up Zoo Posting; the Zoo de Vincennes project raised a few issues that we thought…
Harvest Green
image courtesy of ROMSES Architects Romses Architects recently won a competition for greener and denser development held by…
Zoo de Vincennes Renovation
images by TN PLus Landscape Architects & Beckmann N’Thepe We’d like to revisit a project first published last…
Water Buffalo-Pulled Pavilion
R&Sie, pronounced “Air and Sea” or “Air y see” ( sounds like Heresy), is one of our favorite…
Favorite new Blog
Other than our own, which we really can’t seem to get enough of, our favorite new blog right…
Re:Re:Visioning Dallas
At the end of last week we posted on the Re:Vision Dallas (when will people stop doing the…
Dallas Urban Farming Block
We posted on an entry to this competition a few weeks back and here’s the winner. We’ll briefly…
High Rise Animalia
A new project posted on the BBC yesterday caught our eye. The project proposes to install a handful…
Elephant House
Last year, Foster and Partners completed this new Elephant house for the Copenhagen Zoo, home for a group…
Just like Dystopian Urban Farming
Here’s another vertical urban farming project posted on Inhabitat. While we love the spirit and general interest in…
Architecture, Animal, Human:
Every now and again we come across a book that is doubly refreshing and insightful. Unlike the host…
Agro-Housing
The Agro-Housing prefab concept is a modern housing solution recognized last year at the 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing that blends urban and rural living by creating vertical greenhouse space within high-rise apartments. Developed with concern for predictions that 50% of China's one billion people will soon be living in cities, a trend mirrored in many developing countries in the world, the design of Knafo Klimor Architects allows tenants to produce their own food.
PolySpecies Park
This project is very close to us, embodies many of the principles we are exploring here and of…
Stone Barns Center
The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture was created from a 49,000 square foot complex of Norman-style barns,…