Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
The “children of Rem” sure are growing up fast. Former OMA Partner Ole Scheeren’s firm BOS has been up and running for five years now, and the brains behind Beijing’s iconic CCTV Headquarters is now returning to the Chinese Capital with an ambitious new project, the enormous mixed-use Guardian Art Center. The landmark building will…
It’s one thing when a work of fiction is so immersive that it’s billed as a “time machine,” but even better when going behind the scenes actually makes it more magical. Starting this weekend, “Mad Men” fans will have the opportunity set foot in the office of Don Draper. Dripping in Herman Miller, the Museum…
In conjunction with Bjarke Ingels / BIG’s widely praised exhibition at the National Building M useum, “HOT TO COLD. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation,” the New-York- and Copenhagen-based firm is pleased to release an exhibition catalog of the same name. Like the built environment, climate change affects each and every one of us, and both the…
Seasteading is an exciting new vision of building micro-utopias out at sea, leaving the traditional nation-state behind and forming libertarian communities where new economic, legal, and social systems can grow and thrive without governmental constraints. These new places come not only with their own stories about who founded them and what kind of new civilization…
Today is a big day for Architizer — and for myself personally — and I wanted to take a moment to tha nk the entire community for being a part of it! Today sees the launch of my TED Talk, originally presented last March, an 18-minute crash-course in the last 30 years of architecture history. In…
Calling all NYC architects! We’re looking for the next revolutionary, innovative scheme that w ill revitalize and make a big impact on the city — think High Line, +Pool, or Brooklyn Bridge Park — will it be yours? Architizer is once again teaming up with the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) to bring you…
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…