Architizer Editors
Return of the Adjaye: The London-based architect’s star continues to rise as New York City”s Studio Museum in Harlem has just announced [PDF] that David Adjaye will be designing a new ground-up building (pictured at top) to replace its current home on West 125th Street. The plans will be filed on July 14th, and construction…
L: 22 Bishopsgate within the new London skyline, via theGuardian; R: Cardiff Interchange byFoster + Partners. Glass Goliath: A new tower at 22 Bishopsgate is set to dwarf London’s eclectic array of existing skyscrapers, the Guardian reports. Oliver Wainwright writes that the broad-footed high-rise “will be inescapable from every angle, an urban cliff face that…
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It’s not architecture (or maybe it is?), but we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the major new s this morning: the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the Constitution guarantees marriage equality! And now back to your regularly scheduled programming … L: Álvaro Siza, via Archdaily; R: Zaha Hadid, via Design…
L: David Chipperfield’s Fayland House, via ArchDaily; R: Cosmo by Andrés Jaque, via Dezeen. Contempo rary Classic: David Chipperfield’s Fayland House in Buckinghamshire has been proclaimed the winner of the 2015 AR House Awards, with the Architectural Review praising the architect’s “radical new take on the English country house.” Judges waxed lyrical about Chipperfield’s restrained residence,…
DISSING+WEITLING Architecture won the 2015 A+Award, Jury Choice, for the Highways & Bridges Category with Cykelslangen / The Bicycle Snake. This 660-foot (200-meter) bicycle bridge in Copenhagen makes life easier for some 12,500 commuters daily.
HELSINKI — Moreau Kusunoki Architectes of Paris are the winners of the Guggenheim Helsinki design co mpetition, the museum announced at a press conference Tuesday morning. After a year-long process, they were chosen by an 11-member jury from a shortlist of six firms. “One of our key ideas from the beginning was to make a transparent…
Architecture has come a long way since the time of drawing boards, T-squares, and dividers. How do c ontemporary firms deploy software and hardware solutions in an increasingly competitive market when superior workflow is measured in seconds, bytes, and pixels? Architizer recently conducted a survey of architects [PDF] to glean how they use technology, and the…