Eileen Gray's Classic Modernist Villa E-1027 Restored
On a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (near Monaco), Eileen Gray’s E-1027 house was built to share with her lover, Romanian architect and critic Jean Badovici. The name of the house sounds impersonal, but it is in fact a numeric code for their joint initials.
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
San Francisco Park(ing) Day 2009
The first Park(ing) Day was launched by Rebar in 2005, right here in San Francisco. Watch our latest Streetfilm to see how San Francisco re-purposed parking spots during Friday's Park(ing) Day. Just imagine if bike parking and expanded outdoor café seating took over our automobile-filled public spaces every day. (Courtesy: Streetfilms.org)
Lumenhaus - Zero Energy Home
Not Just A Box: Daniel Libeskind's New $3million Prefab Home
High-profile architect, Daniel Libeskind, 63, has designed a 5,500-square foot, two-story home, or as it being marketed, The Daniel Libeskind Villa. Libeskinds's signature design vocabulary of bold angular, thrusting forms is found through out this design. Clearly, he rejects the rectilinear shapes common to a lot of modern prefab residential design. Except for a commission for a private home in Connecticut, this project represents Mr. Libeskind's only second attempt at residential home design.
Smart grid technology startup, Tendril, gets $30M more capital.
Smart grid technology startup, Tendril, has secured a third round capital injection of $30 million
from VantagePoint Venture Partners and Good Energies. The company plans to expand its hardware and software systems and develop additional partnerships with uitlities and appliances makers.
Documentary film on Subprime crisis: "American Casino"
Director Leslie Cockburn gets to the crux of the matter, eliciting candid revelations from defectors from Bear Stearns and Standard & Poor's and other high-level players in the subprime mortgage gamble.
Higher Prices May Follow Home Sales
As KB Home Loss Shrinks, What's Ahead for Housing?
60 minutes interview with Ben Bernanke
The Federal Reserve controls the economy by setting interest rates. But after the crash of 2008, Bernanke invoked emergency powers,and with unprecedented aggressiveness has thrown a trillion dollars at the housing and financial crisis.
Recent Blog Posts
- Eileen Gray's Classic Modernist Villa E-1027 Restored
- Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
- San Francisco Park(ing) Day 2009
- Lumenhaus - Zero Energy Home
- Not Just A Box: Daniel Libeskind's New $3million Prefab Home
- Smart grid technology startup, Tendril, gets $30M more capital.
- Documentary film on Subprime crisis: "American Casino"
- Higher Prices May Follow Home Sales
- As KB Home Loss Shrinks, What's Ahead for Housing?
- 60 minutes interview with Ben Bernanke







