Welcome to the New Elevate Architecture Website
We have officially re-launched the Elevate Architecture website. I know it has only been about 6 months since we launched the first one, but content should be easier to find, better utilized, and fully optimized [...]
A Fascinating and Uplifting Story of One Woman Making Homes from Garbage for the Needy
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/viewfinder/2013/01/20131994836277368.html This article featured in on Algazeera today really shows how one person can really make a difference. Ingrid Vaca Diez is pioneering an effort to recycle garbage (plastic bottles) in a way that [...]
Plasma Studio Crafts Moutainous Forms
What do you get when you take an interesting shape and run it through a tomato slicer? Answer: The Dolomite Luxury Apartment Building of course! Call it what you will, but I love it. Inspired [...]
China Going Big Redux
It seems like just yesterday I wrote about China going big again on a massive pseudo underground hotel-quarry thingy...oh wait that was yesterday. Well today China one-ups itself by going even bigger. Look out Middle [...]
The Power of Monoliths
Spomenik—Jan Kempenaers and “The End of History” In his book Spomenik, Jan Kempenaers creates a beautiful taxonomy of the fractured past of the Eastern Europe block through his visual documentation of brutalist monoliths. These creations [...]
Mark Lascelles Thornton’s Happiness Machine
Well, architecture certainly moves people in different ways. Mark Lascelles Thornton uses a literal impression of architecture in excruciating hand drawn detail overlaid by an artistic red tint that he colors into his latest art [...]