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Following its announcement of a major expansion to the Asian continent, the WeWork team is setting s tandards across the globe for efficient and comfortable co-working spaces, all the while adapting to its multicultural clientele. With close to 30 locations in New York City alone, WeWork’s growth in the past six years is telling of a…
More than ever before, clean photography is indispensable to the presentation of architecture. It is a way for architects to record their work and allow it to be shared vastly through the extensive networks of social media channels and editorial platforms. In a recent interview with Architizer, Steven Holl of SHA exclaimed that he found…
An initiative cofounded by the Canadian firms RAW Design, Ferris + Associates and Curio, the annual Winter Stations Design Competition is an open-air art installation that strives to bring Toronto residents outside in the coldest months of the year. The competition called for architects, artists or designers to intervene on the existing lifeguard stands stationed…
From the delicate innovations of the fashion industry to the mind-bending accomplishments of 3D-prin ting technologies, Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial moves beyond any one form of art and offers a diverse insight into the future of design. Amid the work of creatives such as Neri Oxman, Jenny E. Sabin and the Haas Brothers, the curators of…
This month at Chamber Gallery in Chelsea, photographer Andrew Zuckerman presents the first capsule o f his curated series called “Human Nature.” Framed around works by Steven Holl Architects, Levenbetts and Leong Leong, the show is an introspection on the cube as form, element and inspiration. Leong Leong’s contribution to the show, A Toolkit for a…
When the Romanian Cultural Institute offered British photographer Richard Seymour a grant to photogr aph the country’s capital, Bucharest, he first turned his lens to the countryside, believing it to be an important step to understanding the character of the city itself. In the midst of his research, Seymour dove 367 feet underground to uncover Salina…
“It’s a long story, and I’ll try to make it short … ” starts Luca Drigani when he begins to tell the origins of Pilosio Building Peace’s project RE:BUILD. The foundation, Pilosio Building Peace, is a humanitarian offshoot of Pilosio SpA, an Italian company started in 1961 that produces, and sells and provides, scaffolding and…
Winner of the Curry Stone Prize for humanitarian architecture in 2015, Rural Urban Framework is a no nprofit design and research lab based out of the University of Hong Kong and led by assistant professors John Lin and Joshua Bolchover. The duo lectured at Columbia this past Monday, January 25th, as part of the GSAPP Spring…
Named after “segja,” the Icelandic word for “tale,” Saga is a collective of five young architects: P ierre Y. Guérin, Camille Sablé, Anastasia Rohaut, Simon Galland and Sylvain Guitard. The initiative started in 2014, guided by the mission to instill new dynamics within environments and communities through precise actions, experiments and architectural interventions. In the following…