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Wondering what’s new in the world of Kitchen and Bath? Look no further than our Product Catalo g, a database of thousands of products, searchable by projects that they’ve been used in. And if you’re looking for a place to start, we’ve put together a handy round-up of some of the latest and greatest kitchen and…
Coworking offices just had a very good month. New Jersey recently marked $731,000 in state funds for the improvement and growth of shared workspaces. WeWork, a coworking office operator, just raised $335 million in investment funds and announced its first office in Austin, a city already already home to 15 independently owned coworking spaces.
Jim Kazanjian has been making insanely realistic-looking but obviously fake photo-collages for a whi le. We first checked in with Kazanjian’s monsters when they were dystopian Victorian mash-ups set to post-apocalyptic landscapes. Now, the Portland, Ore.-based artist — he works in commercial CGI by day — has moved onto something a bit more sinister. Images courtesy…
Photographer Iwan Baan travels the world, living out of a suitcase and hotel rooms exclusively, in o rder to document architectural marvels in far-flung locales like the middle of Africa and China. For an advocate of aerial vantage points, drones are often the only way to get up in the air and show the surroundings and…
Fashion Week is in full swing in Milan, long a capital of both haute couture and high design. The tw o worlds intersect in the eclectic and variegated interiors of the labels’ flagship stores — architecture may not be subject to the biannual cycles of fashion, but it certainly goes a long way toward complementing the…
It’s not unusual for architects to diverge from the conventional path of practice, with multip le skills from the profession lending themselves to all manner of creative pursuits. However, once you’ve experienced life in the studio, you never see the world in quite the same way again. It comes as no surprise, then, that Kacper Kowalski…
What is the difference between a representational drawing, such as a rendering, and an interpretatio n of a built project by an illustrator? Buildings are drawn for several reasons, but the rendering never seems to capture the serene feeling of an illustration. Perhaps Isozaki’s screenprints did. Why did that trend fade away? Illustrator Thomas Danthony has…
These shoe designs wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery.
Every winter, the small Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi builds an Icehotel. Almost 50,000 people will visit each season, and artists from around the world come to build sculptural, light-based or even typographic installations for themed rooms. This year is the 25th edition of the iconic frozen palace, which uses almost 1,000 tons of frozen water…