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Architectural Craziness: East River Floating Pool Concept Dives Right Into Our Hearts

By: Curbed

23Jul2010

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Dumpster pools? Yesterday's news. The latest innovation in the field of urban swimmin' holes is + Pool, a floating pool design we've become obsessed with in the five minutes since we...

Architectural Craziness: Futuristic East River Greenhouses Should Cheer Al Gore Right Up

By: Curbed

15Jul2010

How are young architecture firms keeping busy during these lean times in New York City? A couple of ways! According to the Archpaper, some particularly rebellious whippersnappers are designing "secret, illegal apartments" in warehouses that...

Architectural Craziness: The Archpaper got a test run...

By: Curbed

29Jun2010

The Archpaper got a test run on P.S. 1's stripperific bouncy ball extravaganza Pole Dance, and the museum's latest architecture experiment is a winner, Matt Chaban writes: "This may just be the best damned pavilion in the program’s dec...

Architectural Craziness: Crazy Algae Skyscraper Could Kill Pollution, All Life Forms

By: Curbed

28Jun2010

This would be the 80-story pollution-fighting skyscraper designed by Czech architects Pavlína Doležalová and Jan Smékal and featuring pollution scrubbing algae attached to the exterior with concrete spikes. Wha? The...

Architectural Craziness: Luxury Rentals Infiltrate Jamaica, Devour Everything in Their Path

By: Curbed

23Jun2010

We don't often get invited to grand opening parties out in Jamaica, but Moda is trying to do something different from its eastern Queens brethren. The rental building, made up of studios/1BRs/2BRs, has the look and feel (and marketing)...

Architectural Craziness: New York Architects Go Abroad, Act All Crazy!

By: Curbed

22Jun2010

You don't need a lecture from Jean Nouvel to know that it's hard getting something truly avant-garde built in New York City, so our best and brightest have to trot the globe looking for work. For example, check out...

Arrested Development: Crazy New Idea for Stalled Buildings: Put 'Em on Ice!

By: Curbed

21Jun2010

Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[Totally crazy images by Woods Bagot New York.] The downturn has led to plenty of ideas on how to best use stalled developments, ideas like subsidized housing and homeless shelters and rehab...