Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
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…
“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.