The Angry Architect
Forget Apple’s sleek new headquarters in Cupertino — if any building might represent the iPhone in a rchitectural form, this is it. Today sees the opening of the new contemporary art wing of the Corning Museum of Glass. The client for this major civic project in upstate New York, Corning Inc., produces Gorilla Glass, used for…
Public voting for the 2015 A+Awards is now open, which means that YOU have the power to select the v ery best architecture in the world. With the A+Awards, recognizing the best projects is no longer domain of a small group of judges — everyone gets a say in who will be crowned victorious in over…
When Gustave Eiffel completed his tower for the 1889 World Fair in Paris, the observation deck typol ogy was truly born. The success of that structure – it remains the most visited paid monument in the world – illustrated the power of the humble viewing platform to transform a city’s economic fortunes and its architectural identity…
Each year, a number A+Award Finalists stand out for their innovative contemporary applications of tr aditional materials, and this year, several projects have utilized timber in extraordinary and inventive ways. Here are five projects that have plied wood into inspiring places to live, work, worship, and play: take the tour and then make sure to jump over here and cast your votes!
When we received news earlier this year that Google Earth Pro is now free to download, we rejoiced — the digital world has become our oyster, with mind-boggling levels of geographic and demographic statistics at our fingertips. In fact, we have access to such an amount of data that the ocean of information can be…
The “children of Rem” sure are growing up fast. Former OMA Partner Ole Scheeren’s firm BOS has been up and running for five years now, and the brains behind Beijing’s iconic CCTV Headquarters is now returning to the Chinese Capital with an ambitious new project, the enormous mixed-use Guardian Art Center. The landmark building will…
If you needed further evidence that the world of architectural design is transforming fast, look no further than Marc Kushner’s new book The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings, released this week in conjunction with the architect’s uplifting TED Talk. When establishing just howfast, though, one particular question that Marc poses stands out amongst the…
This March is turning out to be a splendid month for Thomas Heatherwick Studio. Just a week after th e firm unveiled its ambitious plans for a super-green Googleplex in collaboration with BIG, one of its largest projects to date has now been completed in Singapore: The Learning Hub is a cluster of 12 sculpted towers,…
When the Dubai Government recently unveiled the grandly titled Museum of the Future, the building lo oked like it was missing something: A vast void pierces the center of the oval structure, designed by an unnamed architecture firm and set for construction in 2017. The distinctive shape of the building forms the latest attempt by the…