Inspiration: Industry

An expressive steel diagrid and "skyparks" sets this skyscraper concept apart.

By the 1920s, airplane travel had made art and architecture a global profession, at least in the dis semination and cross-contamination of ideas. All over the globe, colonialism and otherwise globalized commissions were spreading modernism and other sociopolitical systems around the world. These intellectual histories make for fascinating tales that reveal a secondary history behind some…

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…

The 2014 Venice Biennale program of national pavilions was titled “Absorbing Modernity,” which had the premise that local, regional, and national cultures had absorbed the modern way of building in different ways. One of the most exciting places that Modernism intersected with traditional aesthetic notions and traditional building techniques was in Africa. Image via Pinterest…

The Vitra Design Museum (VDM) in Weil am Rhein, Germany, will celebrate African design and architect ure with an African theme for the next six months. The programming starts with the exhibition “Architecture of Independence – African Modernism,” which opened on February 20th and runs until May 31st, and “Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary…

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…