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When Italian-Spanish illustrator Federico Babina draws architecture, he does not simply draw archite cture. His illustrations radically reimagine his subjects, leaving us with new visions of what the architecture means. Drawing can be productive as a method to arrive at a design, but it can also help us re-interpret built work after it is completed. All…
Far be it for us to call it a trend, but all kinds of new buildings bear an uncanny resemblance to e veryday objects: a can of ham, for example, or a sandwich accoutrement. While you may be sick of looking toward the skyline and seeing the contents of your fridge, you could be open to…
This might just be the best month of the year — it’s the first day of spring (despite the weat her), March Madness is starting, and the A+Awards public voting is live. And who could forget Spring Break? Get out your towels and dust off your sandals, because we are here to show you the best…
Thanks to its density, New York City is the locus of some of the most extreme disparities of the hou sing crisis, with super-tall luxury condos inflating the entire city’s housing prices. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to change that by adding 200,000 new units of affordable housing, but activists say that he is moving too…
Earlier this year, when the Downey Conservancy announced their efforts to #SaveTacoBell, we took the opportunity to look at how the beloved chain restaurant has reinvented itself over the years. SxSW sees the latest incarnation of their restaurant: Taco Bell is jumping on the shipping-container building trend. Image via Fast Company Shipping containers have long…
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Can invisible be innovative? Sometimes architecture that is thoroughly integrated into its environme nt is the most impressive to view. Launched earlier this week, Marc Kushner’s book The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings features 100 different structures that push the boundaries of design. We previously saw how some of these projects represent a transformation from…
Formal gimmicks in architecture are a fact of life. Many are incidental; no one set out to build a s ky-high pickle, a can of ham, a drunkard’s gaping mouth, or a pair of boxer shorts. But recent trends seem to favor imbuing buildings with regionalist clichés as a form of deeper meaning. These projects aim…
Inflatable bouncy castles (and their adult analogs) notwithstanding, temporary structures are often an ugly, vinyl-awning / aluminum-leg affair. But pop-up or otherwise ephemeral architecture can also present an opportunity for designers to get creative. Here are some examples, culled from Marc Kushner’s The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings, that prove that architecture doesn’t need…