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During the decades following World War II, Americans experienced a drastic shift in both the domesti c and the professional landscape. In response, both US-born and émigré architects, designers, and patrons helped to disseminate the midcentury aesthetic and worldview to a broad American audience. Yesterday saw the opening of Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism at…
The more cynical amongst us have long suspected that the growing forest of supertall residential con dominiums in Midtown Manhattan is as much about big egos as it is about great architecture. Now, the marketing department in charge of selling the multi-million dollar apartments in SHoP Architects‘ slender skyscraper on West 57th have added fuel to…
Do you have an innovative concept for a hotel? This is your chance to shake up hospitality. The John Hardy Group, an international leader in hotel real estate development, is now calling for entries for its annual Radical Innovation competition. Since Radical was founded, more than $100,000 has been awarded to firms and creative thinkers…
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…
eVolo’s annual skyscraper design contest has become a hotbed for some extraordinary and often contro versial twists on the high-rise typology over the years: We’ve seen everything from floating megacities to an immense agricultural prison levitating in the clouds. The winning designs for 2015 have just been announced, and they are just as diverse as you…
Legislation in the President's budget proposal would prevent the public for financing professional s ports arenas.
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…
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…