Articles by Raquel Laneri

From model Lisa Fonssagrives hanging off the Eiffel Tower to Coco Rocha racing through the TWA Termi nal, here are some of our favorite architecture-fashion shoots.

Last week, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City announced that though it still plans on moving forward with the Folk Art Museum demolition, it will preserve at least one part of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien‘s architectural masterpiece: its facade. MoMA plans on dismantling the Folk Art Museum’s 63 unique copper-bronze-alloyed panels…

Ever since he saw Goldfinger as a kid, Siebe de Boer has been fascinated with movie sets. So much so that the Dutch artist and illustrator has rebuilt entire classic set pieces on his computer, rendering them in painstakingly detailed 3D. “I wanted to look back to some of my personal favorites and rebuild them…

Don’t let this year’s harsh winter fool you. Despite the two(!) Polar Vortexes and the f reak snowstorms currently bludgeoning the South, the Earth really is getting warmer. That’s the takeaway from this sobering graphic released by NASA, which illustrates 60 years of the globe’s changing climate. In just 15 seconds, NASA charts the weather patterns…

These architectural curators cleverly harness Instagram to engagement with the design community.

China’s “airpocalypse” has reached a fever pitch recently with the news that Beiji ng, thanks to its out-of-control smog, has taken to televising sunrises on huge screens placed in public squares for its light-starved residents. This is, of course, after the US Embassy in Beijing reported that the city’s air quality level had exceeded 500—the highest…

Qatar has recently announced that it would finally begin work on Santiago Calatrava’s “D oha Sharq Crossing” in 2015, five years after the Spanish architect first released plans for the project. The 12 km “crossing,” a bridge-and-tunnel hybrid that stretches across the bay, linking the new Hamad Airport with the financial and cultural districts. The delicate…

The recent activities by—and ensuing scandals of—the National Security Agency here in the United Sta tes have prompted us to ponder the architecture of surveillance before. Unsurprisingly, the buildings that house our secrets are almost defiantly unremarkable: not striking or adventurous enough to command attention, but not so hideous as to stick out in the landscape…

Last night, we imagine many of you were catching planes to visit loved ones, slaving over your Chris tmas roasts, or catching up on your last-minute holiday shopping before Christmas Eve. But we at Architizer HQ spent the evening looking at lots and lots of gingerbread houses. That’s right: We were making our final judgements on…