Articles by Architizer Editors

If there is one thing architects never seem to have quite enough of, it’s time.

Architizer’s A+Awards, the world’s largest awards program for architecture and products, remains open for entries until the end of January! Click here to submit your project now. Is it just us, or is it getting cold out there? After an unseasonably warm autumn in many parts of the world, it seems that one of Game…

What brands like Dornbracht™ keep reaffirming is that luxury product design can be both unique and v ersatile. The company’s newest series of bathroom fittings combines technology and delicate contours meant to delight both the eye and the skin while providing numerous possibilities for customization. The new CL.1 series, conceptualized and designed by Sieger Design, introduces…

When you combine a desire for landmark creation with a penchant for contemporary design and a dramat ic natural context, the results can be breathtaking.

Since at least the 1970s, when Calgon advertised its skincare products as means to “take me away,” t he bathroom has transformed from a site of hygiene to a personal haven. Yet this enormous shift does not rely on bubble beads and body washes alone. The Hornberg, Germany-based manufacturer Duravit is producing bathroom fittings that foster…

François Lévy, AIA, a principal architect at Lévy Kohlhaas Architecture in Austin, Texas, recently j umped at the opportunity to create a residence for Hope House, a nonprofit that started out housing special-needs children who’ve now become adults thanks to advances in medicine. With this one project, Lévy found a chance to combine his personal philosophies…

Through much of the 20th century, architecture gave an upper hand to technology over nature. Buildin gs were sealed off from fresh air and were primarily accessible by car. In retrospect, this era will register as an anomaly: while movements like sustainability and biophilia may sport cutting-edge monikers, in reality, they represent a return to age-old…

Writing for Gensler’s 50th-anniversary blog series “Fifty On,” public relations manager Katie Dabbsr ecently contributed some fascinating insights into the strengthening relationship between design and social media, and how the online “wisdom of the crowd” will help shape the cities of the future. With wide-ranging sources from Kim Kardashian to Iwan Baan, here’s what Dabbs had…

One of the ironies of modern “green” architecture and design is that in attempting to build more sus tainable and comfortable structures and make use of the positive aspects of natural daylight we can sometimes accomplish the opposite. All that glass allows us to reduce energy used to light and heat buildings, and there are documented…