The Angry Architect
Just last month, we were speculating about how an Uber-style fleet of driverless cars could change t he make-up of cities. Now, the same questions may need to be applied not to our roads, but to the skies far above: Helicopter livery operator Gotham Air has launched an airborne taxi service, promising to transfer time-squeezed commuters…
Many major cultural institutions have been looking to expand their reach in recent times, with satel lite branches opening or under construction across the world: The Guggenheim Foundation leads the way as ever, with new divisions taking shape in both Abu Dhabi and, eventually, Helsinki. The Louvre is traversing borders for the first time, setting up…
It’s almost as if Ken Shuttleworth has taken inspiration from my very own pseudonym… The founder of Make Architects — a former right-hand man of Sir Norman Foster — thrust his inner “Angry Architect” into the limelight, deriding his peers as “arrogant and egotistical,” and accusing them of “taking all the credit” for the work…
Deep in the remote hills of rural Chile, there lies a brilliantly bizarre settlement with a unique h istory: Ciudad Abierta, or ‘Open City,’ is an ode to experimental design, formed by a group of students and teachers working at the intersection of poetry and architectural exploration. Journalist Vincenzo Latronico recently visited this surreal landscape, and…
Shopping centers have long been a source of conflict and contradiction for architects. Successful ma lls are celebratory cathedrals of consumerism that, for all their vitality, can suck the lifeblood out of the surrounding cityscape and transform high streets into ghost towns. The functional motivation of malls is at once glamorous and gluttonous, often necessitating aesthetics…
Bjarke’s been busy lately — not just with edifying and exhibiting but also his day job as, you know, an architect. The Danish architect’s firm has unleashed a veritable blizzard of new projects this winter, with the scale and program of each varying significantly. Following on from the recent groundbreaking of their twisting TELUS Sky…
If you are a fan of architecture, digital design, typography, and GIFs — the undisputed darlings of online artistry — then you are in for a real treat. Creative firm Deepblue Networks recently collaborated with illustrator Florian Schommer on a marketing campaign for their website, transforming their logo into gigantic letter-shaped buildings — crisp axons…
The last freezing phase of the current ice age ended around 10,000 years ago, but the residents of c ertain cities in the northeastern U.S. could be forgiven for thinking it has returned with a vengeance: Boston is in danger of buckling under the weight of 95.7 inches of snow so far this winter, and the…
BIG’s brand of hedonistic sustainability is coming to Calgary, with the firm’s mixed-use skyscraper — the 57-story TELUS Sky Tower — breaking ground in the city’s downtown quarter last week. The project is being realized in collaboration with local practice Dialog, and is slated for completion in the fall of 2017. The high-rise attempts to…