Old/New Venetian Gallery

ArcSpace today featured the renovation of the Francois Pinault Foundation Gallery in Venice by Japanese Modernist Tadao Ando. What a wonderful combination of history and modernism, brick and concrete, glass, steel, and wood. Bellisimo! All Images via arcspace. Photo credit Thomas Mayer.        

World’s Tallest Woman-Designed Skyscraper

Aqua, the new skyscraper by Studio Gang Architects, is complete and a beautiful undulating addition to Chicago’s skyline. Jeanne Gang is the 45 year old principal architect for the building, which she describes as having an “inhabited facade”. The buildings concepts and execution make it truly sustainable, an active green building instead of a cube [...]

Tour the ZEH

Whats the ZEH you ask? Bellevue’s new Zero Energy Idea House located on the shores of Lake Sammamish. They are offering Self-guided Tours this weekend. See below for official poster. The house is innovative structurally and sustainably, utilizing features such as Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS), small scale wind power, and a green roof. There is [...]

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