Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
Each year, a number A+Award Finalists stand out for their innovative contemporary applications of tr aditional materials, and this year, several projects have utilized timber in extraordinary and inventive ways. Here are five projects that have plied wood into inspiring places to live, work, worship, and play: take the tour and then make sure to jump over here and cast your votes!
Robert Moses can confirm that elevated highways in urban areas act as a virtual DMZ, dividing sectio ns of a city and creating strong boundaries between neighborhoods — often along socio-economic lines. In the middle of the 20th century, car-friendly cities were seen as futuristic, economically healthy cities, even if roads made them ugly, dirty, noisy,…
The partially computer-generated concept allows the tower to reflect light where it casts a shadow.
When we received news earlier this year that Google Earth Pro is now free to download, we rejoiced — the digital world has become our oyster, with mind-boggling levels of geographic and demographic statistics at our fingertips. In fact, we have access to such an amount of data that the ocean of information can be…
Wiel Arets Architects has been selected to design the “Am Hirschgarten” mixed-use campus on the western of edge of Munich. In order to meet the requirements of economy, sustainability, and flexibility, the firm has developed a series of four buildings, towers rising from the 6- to 7-story plinths, the tallest coming in at 17 stories…
Architizer was founded on the premise that architecture is and always will be for everyone — look no further than Marc Kushner’s TED Talk and book for proof — and the A+Awards perfectly encapsulates this mission to break architecture out of its echo chamber. Now in its third edition, the program has gotten bigger and…
In recent news from Kiev, Ukrainian rebels have seized the palace of ousted President Viktor Yanukov ych in a symbolic coup d’etat, opening the enormous five-story estate and surrounding golf course to the public, who expressed outrage that such a private residence even existed. Vice recently toured the grounds and veritable McMansion, and the result is…
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…