The Angry Architect
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…
Being an architect can sometimes be a frenetic and stressful job, and from time to time, one couldn’ t be blamed for desperately wanting to “get away from it all”. Now, the perfect project for such an architect could be on the very distant horizon: the Royal Institute of British Architects has launched an ideas competition…
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…
Sydney is home to an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the waterfront: The huge natural harbo r of Australia’s most populous city is complemented by the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge, not to mention the building with the world’s most recognizable silhouette, Jørn Utzon’s Opera House. Developers in the city, though, are not content to…
The debate over what kind of environment is most conducive to productivity in the workplace has been raging in recent months — The Washington Post’s Lindsey Kaufman >caused quite a stir when she declared that Google’s adoption of the open-plan office might actually be detrimental to employees, while Kay Sargent argued otherwise, extolling the abolition…
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” Pe rhaps Renzo Piano had a point: Architects are suckers for the drama of cantilevers, and the perpetual tension that comes with that perfect structural balancing act. As always, Many of this year’s A+Award Finalists have employed cantilevers to create defiant, dynamic architecture, counterbalancing the functional advantages of extra space on the upper stories with the formal theatre of an architectural overhang. Here are 5 of the best – don’t forget to vote for your favorite finalists over here!
If architecture is like frozen music as Johann Wolfgang said, then perhaps Chicago-based power-poppe rs OK Go didn’t get the memo. The walls, floors, ceilings and furnishings in their latest video — a commercial for a sale at Chinese furniture store Red Star Macalline — are constantly on the move, melting and flowing in time with…
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…
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…