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What is UP with the Sears Tower? It ain't the Sears Tower any more! Many buildings are named after the company that spends the money to build them. but once the company moves out, as Sears did with our Tallest Office building in the WEstern Hemisphere, the name no longer sticks. So soon it will be called the Willis Tower? We don't know if we will ever get used to that... (The new name is because the Willis insurance company will be leasing some of the floors of the 110 story building.) Here is the story in the Chicago Tribune.
what the heck is this?
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Whatcha gonna do with that old Van?
MAKING THE VANS OF YESTERDAY INTO THE ROOMS OF TOMORROW : a vanKIDecture competition!
Take that old minivan, stop using gasoline and start using it as a new room! Tell us how you would do it!
So we all know that there is a limited amount of fossil fuels in the world. And many of us know that we will not be able to continue to drive our big trucks and minivans forever. So the question becomes, "What is going to become of all of the old minivans?"
That
is why we have created the first ever
"MINIVAN into a ROOM
Competition"!!
We want you to submit ideas and designs for bringing that old mini van into the yard or parking lot and make it your own room. No need to drive that minivan, just park it and get out of your parents hair!
Download the details HERE. or HERE. or contact us at info@archKIDecture.org
Random Acts of Architecture
March 2009 || It's a Green Thang
Architect
Renzo Piano, from Italy, is renowned throughout the world for his innovative
and creative designs. And the building he designed for the California Academy
of Sciences is greater than a hill o'beans!
The museum is three city blocks wide and it holds not only an aquarium, and a planetarium but also a natural history museum. Yowza...that is a lotta museum under one "green" roof!. More...
October 2007 || Casa
de Pedra (means House of Stone) and WOW this stone house is not from the
Flintstones. This artist has taken over 20 years to detail this stone
house and it is a great expression of his artistic eye.
Learn
more »
WORD o' the Week
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Stuff we like
Gingerbread Mansions!
This artist works in gingerbread and bakes her structures and they are remarkable! Gingerbread houses and bigger structures. Aren't they just delicious-looking?! Read more »
Build IT! archKIDecture exhibit NEWS
A
good (a bit old but let's call them vintage!) review ot the BuildIt! exhibit here
(Thanks to TheEncyclopedia Brittanica for including archKIDecture as a link to their Brittanica IGuide.)
We visited Watseka
Ilinois and made some cool treehouses out of cigar boxes. Take
a look > >