MetaFilter posts tagged with buildings and design

Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Artw — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:53 -0800

Dan Dare, pilot of the future, scourge of the Venusian Mekon menace, and modernist architectural inspiration?

Eikongraphia

carter — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:59:55 -0800

Eikongraphia - Browsable architecture design theory thingy.

Put Wet Towels On The Sensor

Xurando — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:23:54 -0800

How to wash your hands and ride the elevators in the new New York Times Building.

Buildings UI, good and bad

nthdegx — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:27:05 -0800

Buildings UI, good and bad

An innovative design for an office building - No screwing around

psmealey — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:30:19 -0800

Helix — a 1D skyscraper with a single corridor. The principle is a cylindrical building with a helical shape for the floor. The slope of the floor is 1.5% (it rises by 1.5 cm every meter), thus hardly noticeable. The height of each ’storey’ is 3 meters, so that when you walk 200 meters along the corridor, you have walked a full circle, but you end up one ’storey’ above or below your starting point.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Shalom Synagogue

Afroblanco — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:28:53 -0800

Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Shalom Synagogue - Cool photo essay about a beautiful building

Dream Houses And Great Architects

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 31 May 2003 19:31:37 -0800

I So Want This House It Hurts. Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House is up for sale. If price was no object and location wasn't a problem, where would you choose to really live? What architect, living or dead; what building, available or not, would you choose? [NYT reg. required for main link..]