Architizer Editors
2016 marks a huge year for democracy, and we’re not just talking about that US presidential election . Architizer’s A+Awards sets itself apart from other prominent architecture award programs by giving everyone a say on the world’s best buildings — and public voting for the fourth annual competition is officially open! While the Pritzker Prize jury…
In a recent survey of trends in American rental housing, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported that fewer than one percent of units include a basic suite of universal-design accommodations. “The picture is far worse among one- to three-family houses,” says Richard Duncan, executive director of the Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based RL Mace Universal…
In order to create an ambitious indoor/outdoor eatery at Miami’s renowned Bal Harbour Shops, the in- house design team for Hillstone Restaurant Group had to go through a particular kind of window shopping. In turning to Hope’s®, leading manufacturer of custom steel and bronze windows and doors, Project Architect Rakesh Patel found the solutions to help…
Temporary shelter is a bigger issue in today’s world than ever before as we face extreme changing we ather patterns, disasters and political instability. And there’s no group better suited to providing creative solutions to such social issues than the architecture and design community.
Emerging from progressive studios, public works and social-enterprise investments, integrated design has entered mainstream architecture. For no surer sign that this highly collaborative process has become a new best practice, look to the residential projects in which most of the industry works: architects of single- and multifamily buildings are assembling teams of partners and consultants…
Architizer is excited to partner with Sunbrella® for the fourth annual FUTURE OF SHADE COMPETITION, which is dedicated to exploring space-building potentials of fabric. Over the years, the competition has generated interest from architects and designers all over the world, attracting innovative solutions that advance the technological and aesthetic potential of Sunbrella products. This year,…
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, global firm Gensler asked its team of talented architects, u rban planners and researchers for their personal insights and opinions on how design innovation can create more livable cities. The resulting articles feature on the firm’s dedicated blog at gensleron.com. A recent feature by Peter Weingarten— a native New Yorker…
Since it opened inside Chicago’s Merchandise Mart in 2003, LuxeHome has been a tremendous resource t o retail consumers and the trade alike, and quite literally so. Located on the ground floor of the Merchandise Mart, LuxeHome currently features 37 residential building and renovation brands stretching 125,000 square feet, making it the world’s largest collection of…
Biophilia proposes that humans have a deep-seated attachment to the world around them. Indeed, becau se human evolution has almost exclusively taken place in nature, then affinity for it is encoded into our biology. Remove the forces that stimulated our species’ formation — you can take the boy out of the country, as it were —…