Articles by Architizer Editors

With the Chicago Architecture Biennial just three months away, the programming and activities of the inaugural event are quickly coming together. To coincide with the Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is sponsoring an open international ideas competition for a Center for Architecture, Design and Education. Open for registration today, the ChiDesign: Designing a Center for…

Classy Cladding: With the resurgence in copper and brass in product and furniture design lately, it is perhaps inevitable that patinated metals would make their way to architecture. Pictured above is the first image of the Fitzroy, a new condo building by Roman and Williams set to rise in New York’s tony Chelsea district, which…

With 90+ categories and 300+ jurors, the Architizer A+Awards is the world’s definitive architectural awards program. In anticipation of the Awards Gala and Phaidon book launch on May 14, we are pleased to share the stories behind the winners of the 2015 Awards program — see all of them here. Hello Wood won the 2015…

All Hands on Decq: Odile Decq’s 1990 masterpiece Banque Populaire de l’Ouest de Montgermont is facin g the threat of demolition. Among the most technologically advanced buildings of its time, the BPO, as it is known, in Rennes has won numerous awards including a Golden Lion for the French firm at the 1996 Venice Biennale —…

Lake|Flato Architects won the 2015 A+Awards, Jury Choice, for the Architecture+Sustainability Catego ry with Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion. This living building, the first in Texas, physically embodies the Dixon Water Foundation’s mission to promote healthy watersheds circa sustainable land management, ensuring the preservation of our water resources. Firm name: Lake|Flato ArchitectsLocation: San AntonioYour names: Bob…

Spitz, Austria

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…

Paris, France