Cold Storage Is Hot Right Now: The Architecture of the Archive
The movie is a quietly compelling illustration of the interaction of the built environment with an i ncreasingly digital world of information.
Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
The movie is a quietly compelling illustration of the interaction of the built environment with an i ncreasingly digital world of information.
For a slight boost in sustainability to its most iconic landmark, Paris recently outfitted the Eiffe l Tower with wind turbines — and they’re just gorgeous, according to Popular Science. The new wind turbines, via The Verge’s amazing photo essay At the end of February, the firm Urban Green Energy installed two vertical-axis wind turbines within…
The oldest operating whiskey distillery in New York City also happens to be the smallest commercial distillery in the country: Founded less than five years ago, Colin Spoelman and David Haskell spent their nights and weekends in a 325-square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, making whiskey in five 24-liter stainless steel stills. Over the course…
“Architecture is a borrower,” Eric Owen Moss said on Wednesday night, during a conversation with Fra nk Gehry at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (better known as SCI-Arc). “It gloms onto events and speculations in the arts and culture and science.” Moss raised a compelling point on the varied sources of architectural movements and nomenclatures.…
Together, the images imagine "how London could be transformed by giant statues of positive female ro le models." They include an asteroid, a tech incubator, a control tower at Heathrow, and a colossal sewing machine, honoring Wollstonecraft, Lovelace, Earhart, and the Dagenham sewing machinists.
Now in its 62nd edition, the iF Design Awards has a long history in the world of products and commun ications but has only recently expanded to include other design disciplines — a trend that it will extend into the coming year, with the notable introduction of the Architecture category. Indeed, this year sees a shift…
A global competition where winners' thesis books will be promoted on Design observer and Blurb and d iscussed by a design jury.
In architecture school, impressionable students are taught to reach for the stars in their mission t o create the greatest buildings of their generation. Thomas Wong, partner and Design Principal at Ennead Architects, has taken this advice to heart, channeling all manner of heavenly influence in his proposal for Shanghai’s latest civic landmark, a 38,000 square-meter…
One of the most iconic architectural typologies in history is set to be resurrected in Cairo! Four a nd half millennia after the Pyramids of Giza were completed on the outskirts of the city, the Ministry of Housing has unveiled a proposal for a tower, Zayed Crystal Spark, to anchor the planned development of Sheikh Zayed…