Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
Earlier this month, Fendi celebrated the opening of a new New York City location designed by fashion architect of choice, Peter Marino. The Italian luxury fashion house is relocating the flagship outpost from the Fifth Avenue location (also designed by Marino) to 598 Madison Avenue. Marino wanted sought to overhaul the space — previously occupied…
Living off the grid — independent of the municipal water supply, sewer, natural gas or electrical po wer grid — has long been a dream of survivalists and environmentalists. The autonomy of a self-sustaining house is attractive to them because it not only saves energy, but it also lessens dependence on the government. In the case…
Anyone can stand on the sidewalk and take a picture of a bridge with their iPhone — search #architec ture on Instagram and you’ll get millions of results of varying quality. What separates a follow-worthy photographer from an amateur is his or her ability to make familiar scenes meaningful, elevating a snapshot into cultural commentary. Wolfgang…
Photos are the de facto medium for vicariously visiting architectural marvels, but video comes much closer to the real thing (at least until VR catches on). Spirit of Space, a Chicago-based creative agency that uses film to promote awareness of design excellence, teamed up with Trahan Architects to capture the stunning design of the Louisiana…
Bjarke’s been busy lately — not just with edifying and exhibiting but also his day job as, you know, an architect. The Danish architect’s firm has unleashed a veritable blizzard of new projects this winter, with the scale and program of each varying significantly. Following on from the recent groundbreaking of their twisting TELUS Sky…
For the third year running, Architizer is excited to partner with Sunbrella for the Future of Shade Competition to design beautiful spaces using fabric. With the growing interest and increasingly diverse range of entries in the past two editions of the annual competition, this year sees its expansion to three distinct categories — Humanitarian, Wellness…
Like so many gems of Los Angeles architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is set on a hill just above a generic shopping center. Approaching the entry to the Barnsdall Art Park, its 36-acre site, from the street, it’s hard to imagine that such an immersive, dramatic experience of modernism is in a park just…
In 2011, Foster + Partner’s Spaceport America opened in the New Mexican desert with some wild fanfar e: Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson propelled down the side of the building, champagne in hand, rockets soaring in the air, to christen the $220-million launchpad of the world’s first civilian spaceflight. Four years down the line and nary…
If the stratospheric rise of Dubai from desert city to mega-metropolis wasn’t already head-spinning enough for you, try watching this truly frenetic fly-through, the latest creation by filmmaker and time-lapse wizard Rob Whitworth. Unsurprisingly, this work of awe-inducing madness comes from the same videographer who gave us the most epic tour through Catalonia with his…