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on 15.07.2014
Herzog & de Meuron's newest residential project for Ian Schrager is located at 357 West Street in New York's West Village, overlooking the Hudson River. John Hill
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on 14.07.2014
The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design presents the student exhibition “Urban Routines” as final examination for the 2013/14 educational program. Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
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on 14.07.2014
C.F. Møller Architects and Brut have won the competition for a new residential and mix-use tower in the Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp, with a proposal that redefines the residential high-rise as a vertical social community. C.F. Møller Architects and Brut
Headlines
on 14.07.2014
KCAP Architects&Planners, in a team of international experts, was chosen from four international entries as the winning proposal in the architectural competition for a new RER E – Eole - station in Nanterre, France. John Hill
Reviews
on 13.07.2014
The harsh sun of America's Desert Southwest leads architects to varying design responses, from the vernacular use of mass that absorbs the sun's heat and radiates it during the cool nights to elements that filter the sunlight. Eric Strain of assemblageSTUDIO has combined these two...
Products
on 11.07.2014
LUCEM's light-transmitting concrete finds its first Berlin application at the Prenzlauer Berg development by Wolf Architekten. Current lighting technology allows the street-level façade to change colors on demand. John Hill
Headlines
on 11.07.2014
Renderings have been released for Studio Gang Architects' design of a 40-story tower at 160 Folsom Street in San Francisco for developer Tishman Speyer. John Hill
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on 11.07.2014
The climbing gym of Bressanone was built on a prominent spot regarding the urbanism of the city, and in this way the building received an ambitious aesthetics and design. Lanz + Mutschlechner
Headlines
on 10.07.2014
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, completes the final phase of the transformation of its 140-acre campus, centered on a Visitor Center designed by Tadao Ando. John Hill
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on 10.07.2014
On vacation this week as part of an extended (U.S.) Independence Day, an architectural highlight was a bird blind built in the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary by students from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University. John Hill
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on 09.07.2014
A unique interpretation of slow design by an architect and a photographer: Architect Bence Turányi and photographer Zsolt Batár unified their artistic and professional visions, and the result of their work is an extraordinary house in a forest. Bence Turányi and Zsolt Batár
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on 09.07.2014
ABSCIS ARCHITECTEN BVBA have submitted their Campus KTA Casinoplein (Casino Square) project in Ghent, Belgium. ABSCIS ARCHITECTEN BVBA
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on 09.07.2014
Over at Architect Magazine, Aaron Betsky takes a sneak peek at MVRDV's almost-completed Markthal (Market Hall) in Rotterdam, an arching building whose underside is covered in colorful prints by artist Arno Coenen. John Hill
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on 08.07.2014
A small portion of a large apartment in a stately building in the center of Turin is separated from the rest, becoming independent. A single large space, born from the union of two rooms and the entrance area, composes the new accommodation. Studioata
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on 08.07.2014
The Heschel School is a new $70,000,000 high-rise school, a 145,000 sf building, located in a developing urban neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. The project received 2014 SARA NY Bronze Award of Honor and achieved LEED Gold certification. IBI Group - Gruzen Samton
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on 07.07.2014
Bjarke Ingels Group's aptly named labyrinth opened on July 4th inside the West Court of Washington, DC's National Building Museum (NBM). The 18-foot-tall, 60-foot-square BIG Maze is on display until September 1st. John Hill
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on 07.07.2014
Cubic form and zero gravity, the Vial-Norte UCO building is the result of the combination of massive volumes with light spaces. Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
Headlines
on 07.07.2014
Herzog & de Meuron's seventh project for the Swiss manufacturer of herb drops has been completed in Laufen. Notably, the building is considered the largest loam building in Europe. John Hill
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on 07.07.2014
Point 92 was completed in late 2012, the building simply named after the size of the site itself. It sits on a small site of 0.92 acres and consists of a single 19-story tower with 200,000 sq feet of office space. ZLGDESIGN
Reviews
on 06.07.2014
Aksarben Village is a mix of apartments, shopping, restaurants, entertainment, recreation and offices that bills itself as "Omaha's all-weather destination" about five miles west of downtown. The office spaces are particularly important for giving the new development some...
Insight
on 04.07.2014
Uta Abendroth speaks with architect David Adjaye about his design philosophy in regards to buildings like the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and furniture like the new Washington Chair for Knoll. Uta Abendroth
Headlines
on 04.07.2014
Frank Gehry, designer of a mixed-use development in downtown Toronto for David Mirvish, scales down the project from three towers to two, saving some old buildings in the process. John Hill
Headlines
on 04.07.2014
George Lucas's selection of Chicago for the home of his planned museum launches speculation on how the city was selected over San Francisco, who will design the museum, and what it will mean for Chicago. John Hill
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on 03.07.2014
C.F. Møller has won the invited competition for the Herningsholm Vocational School, with a proposal that integrates building, urbanism and landscape. C. F. Møller Architects
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on 03.07.2014
Osnabrück´s universities around the Westerberg required a new, shared lecture and study building due to an expansion. The new hall, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, will be used primarily by the University of Applied Science. Benthem Crouwel Architects
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on 03.07.2014
Magma architecture has revealed the design for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Game sport shooting venue. The jagged upper edge of the outer perimeter wall is reminiscent of the Canadian national emblem: the maple leaf. magma architecture
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on 03.07.2014
A building and an urban space unique to the climate and the culture of Taichung that combines a public library and municipal fine arts museum—the cultural flagships of a city—into one area, synergizing art, education and recreation SANE architecture
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on 02.07.2014
FUNDAMENTALS: Form-ContraForm puts the definition and perception of space and infinity on center stage. The installation provides an experience that is shaped by the physical boundaries of space, as well as it is extended beyond the tangible. Bekkering Adams Architects
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on 02.07.2014
The Art Institute of Chicago pairs two unlikely architects in the fascinating exhibition Architecture to Scale: Stanley Tigerman and Andrew Zago, now on display until September 14, 2014. John Hill
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on 01.07.2014
Pop-up laboratory in a park in Bucharest for the German company Bayer and the advertising agency Ogilvy Romania. SANE architecture
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on 01.07.2014
"The Busstop” is used as a workshop and gallery for creating and exhibiting the ceramic works of Claartje Borren. Borren Staalenhoef Architecten
Headlines
on 30.06.2014
London's Design Museum has awarded Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. It is the first architectural project to be named Design of the Year in its seven-year history. John Hill
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on 30.06.2014
Hy-Fi, a project by David Benjamin's The Living, opened recently in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. The installation, the winner of the museum's Young Architect's Program, is made from special bricks that will be composted at the end of the summer. John Hill
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on 30.06.2014
This public toilet, which has been developed for the city of Uster in 2011, is a prototype for a new typology of urban infrastructure that will be installed, in different variations, at several places on the city territory over the next few years. Gramazio & Kohler
Reviews
on 30.06.2014
Site often determines a building's form, be it orientation, size, views, or materiality, among numerous characteristics. This cabin on the edge of Flathead Lake in western Montana finds inspiration in its site accordingly, also going so far as to echo the slope of the land in the green...