Curated lists of the best new building-products, materials and design solutions to inspire your next project.
What’s in a name? That depends who’s giving it. In the case of high-profile architecture, a large nu mber of buildings have official names, but the more distinctive forms among those structures tend to attract popular sobriquets bestowed on them by the public. These nicknames can run the gamut from humorous to disparaging and are often…
Few civic complexes capture the imagination like the Smithsonian. As the world’s largest museum and research complex, with 19 museums, 9 research centers and affiliates worldwide, the Smithsonian’s collections are housed in diverse buildings around the National Mall and throughout the world. Established in 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge,” the Smithsonian Institution…
The circular-patterned façades in this collection operate in sharp contrast to the constructed form of the buildings and the spaces within them.
This highly performative material is a marriage between functionality and beauty.
Even the slightest of modifications to conventional building geometries have the potential to create more dynamic dimensions to architecture.
The contemporary residential architecture of Japan is innovative, especially in experimentations wit h shapes, sizes and geometries. In sifting through new residential projects, we commonly find that Japanese architects seem to be drawn to creating new orthogonal volumes that are easily eye-catching yet understatedly beautiful. However, despite the burgeoning of such structural new design ideas, these…
The subconscious associations of color is something that building occupants pick up on, whether they realize it or not, and as evidenced below, orange is no exception.
These museums are constructed using a single cladding material, blurring the line between roof and f açade.
Architects are utilizing different concrete aggregates, textures and forms to create expressive spac es and break from tradition.