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What is the Habitat III Conference, and what does it mean for architecture today? The event, which t ook place in Ecuador’s capital city this week, united more than 25,000 international delegates around the challenge of setting out the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda. This agenda lays out the expectations for the U.N.’s work in cities…
“If cities were devised in the proper form, then something wonderful could happen,” explains Stein.
Leong Leong and JCJ Architecture have revealed the design for a mixed-use community building for the nonprofit organization Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE). Over seven stories, the center addresses the organization’s need for work, events and public spaces. The AAFE has existed since 1974 and works to provide a range of support services including affordable…
On a warm late-summer day, we traveled up from busy New York City to the quiet suburban town that is New Canaan, Connecticut. For anyone who has visited Philip Johnson’s Glass House and the 49-acre property on which it sits, you will remember the imposing gate — two tall trapezoidal stone columns that carry a…
Architectural photographer Steve King discovered Snorre Stinessen’s A+Award-winning cantilevered cab ins on Manshausen Island Resort while planning a vacation last January. Preparing to travel with his girlfriend Luiza to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights over the winter, Steve stumbled on a post that featured Stinessen’s Sea Cabins and immediately decided to make them a…
“You don’t need a lot of color to make something feel warm,” explains Levete.
“Bijoy Jain is one of the world’s most fascinating and interesting architects,” begins Naomi Milgrom , chair of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and founder of MPavilion. Presenting the architect’s design for this year’s MPavilion in Melbourne, Australia, Milgrom thinks back to the moment she first became interested in the work of Studio Mumbai. “It was fascinating…
Founded in 2009, stpmj is a husband-and-wife design practice founded by Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung L im with small offices working in both New York and Seoul. In its beginnings, stpmj worked on various competitions and small-scale pavilions in which the duo experimented with the possibilities of materials and sensory experience. After winning the…
Pioneering prefabrication architecture, Jean Prouvé was a French designer and engineer who invented easy-to-assemble prototypes for everything from tables, chairs and beds to houses, schools and petrol stations. Fabricated with parts made of bent, corrugated or perforated sheet metal, these structures could be assembled by small teams of builders in just a day, presenting avant-garde…