IceLink
In response to the International Ideas Competition for the Bering Strait, Lateral Office‘s Mason White and Lola Sheppard…
BIRD BUG BEAST
Art League Houston is delighted to present Indigenous Genius, a selection of artistic and scientific artifacts from the private collection of pioneering Ohio-based collector R.W. Northcutt, that chronicles the obscure yet poetic life of three particular wood-working animals the beaver, the woodpecker and the termite...
ARC Wildlife Crossing
The ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition (ARC) has brought together landscape architects, engineers, and ecologists to create a proposed wildlife crossing structure in Colorado.
Monist Kingdoms
This project comes to us from Max Hooper Schneider, a graduating landscape architecture student at the Harvard GSD. …
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
The Institute for Figuring has created quite possibly one of the world's largest community art projects - the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. Christine and Margaret Wertheim, the project's founders, describe their creation as "a woolly celebration..."
Amphibious Architecture
A couple years back, we posted on a collaborative project between The Living, Chris Woebken, and Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic. The now completed Amphibious Architecture project seeks to captivate participants by immersing them into the ebbs and flows of aquatic ecosystems...
Oyster-Tecture
The Rising Currents exhibition at MoMA in 2010 featured one of our recent favorite projects here at Animal…
Interview with Joyce Hwang
A few months ago we posted on the Bat Tower, an exciting project by Joyce Hwang and her students at SUNY Buffalo. Recently we've had the chance to catch up with her and get some more details about the tower itself and what can happen when Animals get involved with Architecture.
Honey Bee
Honey Bee, an experimental video by artist Allison Hunter, explores the fascinating nature, fragility, and study of the Western honey bee using a combination of live and computer-constructed 3D footage. Hunter is known for photography and video that make people think about how they perceive and respond to elements of the world...
Call of the Wild
Call of the wild Chimp — that is. This year’s lecture series at the Houston Zoo kicks off…
Kate Orff – Saving the Planet with Oysters
Late last year Kate Orff (of SCAPE) participated in the Rising Currents exhibition at New York’s MoMA. We…
FERAL CITY
...from Seth Barnard, an architecture student at the Cooper Union. Seth's project, as he states, asks the simple question "What if we introduced [or re-introduced] zoological/ entomological/ botanical specimens into our everyday lives?" And we totally agree with you Seth. What if? What if we had a greater awareness of the animals already around us...
Bat Tower
An interesting project came our way from a reader a few months ago and we’re working to provide…
Buenos Aires Vertical Zoo Competition 2010
While we might disagree with their claim to "organic cliff" and suggest something more like cactus, or termite hill, the basic idea of a highly malleable structure with variable porosity we think is right on track.
Interactive Fish Display
This comes to us from Natalie Jeremijenko, one of the foremost Animal Architecture thinkers and developers. In fact…
Batumi Aquarium
Inspired by the characteristic pebbles of the Batumi beach, continually shaped by the wash of the waves through millennia, the building stands out as an iconic rock formation visible from both land and sea.
Winner! Adelaide Zoo
Earlier this month the Adelaide Zoo was garnered with an outstanding five awards to dominate this years Australian Institute of Architect's 2010 Australian Architecture Awards.
Bug Hotel Winner Announced
The "Beevarian Antsel and Gretel Chalet" designed and constructed by the organisation ‘German Women in Property’ was selected from the shortlisted group of five entries...
Oil Eating Animals
“The gulf is such a great fishery because it’s fed organic matter from oil,” said Roger Sassen, a specialist on the cold seeps who recently retired from Texas A&M University. “It’s preadapted to crude oil. The image of this spill being a complete disaster is not true.”
The Gulf Coast Oyster
Where do the Gulf Coast Oysters fit into the BP Oil tragedy? Are they victims or saviors? Could they possibly hold the key to a massive gulf-coast clean up?
Beyond the Hive: Competition Shortlist
A few weeks ago we reported a competition in the UK to design five-star hotels for British insects.…
Urban Aeries
We're happy to announce that Melissa McDonnell, M.Arch '11, Rice University (in partnership with Animal Architecture's Ned Dodington) has won a prestigious RDA (Rice Design Alliance) Houston Initiatives Grant for a very cool project. The project is titled “Urban Aeries” and aims to design urban roosting habitats for Houston's migratory bird population.
Insect Art
More insect art comes to us this time through DeZeen Magazine. The images below show the work of…
UK Bat House
Two architecture students from the Architectural Association in London, Jorgen Tandberg from Oslo and Yo Murata from Tokyo…
Flight Path
This project comes from Marina Nicollier, a recent graduate of Rice University’s M. Arch program. The project was…