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Guardian Industries Corp. will be bringing its newest digital tool to the AIA National Conference in Atlanta this month, showing how the glass manufacturer has made the glass selection easier and more efficient than ever. Founded in 1932, the Auburn Hills, Mich.-based manufacturer produces float and fabricated glass products including SunGuard® Advanced Architectural Glass, which…
The rise of the co-working space has been spurred by demand, but so, too, has the cost of renting a desk at these venues. For those looking for an alternative, Open Lobby is a network of affordable public co-working spaces in the underused, overlooked lobbies of office towers in Midtown East, idly marking the boundary between the public sidewalk and the private offices above despite their premium zip codes. Open Lobby activates these sites — the ideal site for this public-private partnership — as a productive public space. Open Lobby will manage the physical spaces, the urban policy mechanisms, and the financial structures that support it.
New Yorkers generally know to avoid Times Square if possible, but we’ve got a pro tip for loca ls and visitors alike: if you happen to be in the neighborhood this week, you might just catch a glimpse of, say, Hasselt Courthouse or Rundeskogen, among the other architectural stunners. That’s right, Architizer is currently broadcasting the…
Each year since 2013, Architizer has partnered with Sunbrella to sponsor the Future of Shade Competi tion, an open call for projects and ideas that explore the possibilities of what fabric architecture can be. Now in its third year, the 2015 competition received 190 submissions from 36 countries including the US, Canada, India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Italy,…
Alucobond is the Kleenex of aluminum composite material: comprising two sheets of 0.02-inch-thick al uminum thermobonded to a core material, Alucobond has become synonymous with ACM. One reason why the brand is so trusted by the design community is that it has long been used to resist fire. Just several years after the product’s 1964 launch,…
It’s finally here! Those of you who attended the A+Awards gala last Thursday had the very firs t look at the inaugural Architizer A+Awards 2015 book, which has been shipping from Phaidon to lucky doorsteps (or mailboxes) all over the world. Now in its third year, the Architizer A+Awards program has expanded to include the publication…
With 90+ categories and 300+ jurors, the Architizer A+Awards is the world’s definitive archite ctural 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. Helen and Hard as won…
The parking garage is a routinely overlooked architectural typology: a necessary structure, but rare ly one that garners much attention. Cook Children’s Health Care System — a Forth Worth, Texas, pediatric hospital listed by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation’s best — thought differently, tapping the potential of the ancillary piece of…
All you need to know from the A+Awards Ceremony!