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Design districts have become as much a part of the modern metropolis as restaurant rows or theater d istricts. However inevitable they seem today, design districts are a recent invention. Whereas traditional design centers had their backs turned to everyone but professionally credentialed visitors, places like the Design Districts of Miami and Helsinki, or Brera in…
A London gallery designed to house the private collection of notorious artist Damien Hirst has scoop ed this year’s Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. Caruso St John’s building, defined by striking brick facades and a distinctive sawtooth roof, beat out five other standout projects to the prize, including Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School…
Behold Cram's imaginary metropolis of columns, domes, crowns and spires.
It’s official: Brexit is happening. UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced this past weekend that t he process leading to the country’s departure from the European Union would be put into motion before the end of March 2017, promising to strike a deal with the EU as an “independent, sovereign” UK For all the words of…
Brick & Wonder is a curated platform of the highest quality homes for sale worldwide. Launched b y Lang Architecture in 2016, Brick & Wonder provides access to homes in the marketplace with design integrity that have the capacity to improve how we feel, think, interact and ultimately live our daily lives. Architizer will select one…
What’s considered a New York City institution of sorts, the International Contemporary Furniture Fai r (ICFF) — a designer’s paradise stocked with new products from both established and fledgling brands — is for the first time making its way south. On October 5 and 6, the inaugural ICFF Miami will map the newest frontier of what’s…
Hadid’s prismatic intervention perches precariously like a vast iceberg atop an old fire station.
Structural connections needn’t just be functional in architecture today: Thanks to companies like Ne w York–, San Francisco–, and Toronto-based Cast Connex, they can also make for edgy or elegant details. In just nine short years, Cast Connex has grown quickly from startup status to the largest North American supplier of steel castings for architecturally exposed…
OMA has unveiled its design for the office’s first residential building in New York City. Designed b y its New York partner Shohei Shigematsu, the building will be situated in between the neighborhoods of Gramercy Park and Madison Square. Occupying a corner site, the building endeavors to create a “gradient from historic to modern.” Its facade…