Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is pleased to announce the 14 recipients of the 2015 Youn g Architect Award. AIA defines “young” in reference to years in practice rather than the age of the individual — the award can go to any AIA member who has been licensed for 10 years or less, regardless of…
What role will architecture and landscapes play in the newly authorized park?
Hot on the heels of the appointment of Aaron Betsky as dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Arch itecture, we’re excited to hear more news about America’s best-known architect: Ten of his masterpieces have been nominated to the United Nation’s World Heritage List. If selected, Wright’s works will join the likes of the Sydney…
Rejoice and be merry, for architects are on the rise again! Ok, that statement may be overselling it . Nonetheless, new statistics indicate that a key trio of design and construction sectors — architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering — is continuing a steady recovery following the global financial crisis of 2008. Figures released by the U.S.…
“The unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence,” wrote Italo Calvino in his ma sterpiece Invisible Cities. Beyond designing the Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Paris and the Columbia University Campus Plan in New York City, architect Renzo Piano has spent last year looking for fragments of happy cities around Italian suburbs…
Minimal USA was the 2014 Popular Choice Award winner in the Products+Kitchen category with the Minim al - M3 collection. This custom-made kitchen hardware is built to last with stainless steel structures and aluminum doors and drawers.
News flash: Houses on the numerous Mulholland Drives throughout the United States are worth 235 perc ent more than the national average. Meanwhile, houses on the literally thousands of Main Streets list for 58 percent less. We still wouldn’t move in. Despite the often random nature by which streets get their names, there seems to be…
Sometimes architects just need to do rad shit — and not only when they’re asked. Designed by F amily and PlayLab, the +POOL, a floating, water-filtering pool in the East River, fits in this category of awesome stuff no on asked for, and they are taking their message to the streets. “Doing Something Big When No…
C.T. ARCHITECTS was the 2014 Popular Choice winner and the Jury Award winner in the Architecture+Agi ng category with Loft MM. This storage-space-turned-micro-loft was created with custom-made furniture and design solutions that subtly comply with Belgian disability codes.