Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
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.
The top five designs for the highly anticipated £90-million entertainment venue in Bristol, England, will be on display and open to public commentary for the next two weeks. The 12,000-seat Bristol Arena is due to open in 2017 next to the Temple Meads Station in the heart of the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. Launched in…
Stark photos of an embattled region's airport (built less than three years ago) highlight the harsh realities of war.
In anticipation of the upcoming deadline for the 2015 A+ Awards, we’re featuring facts you did n’t know about some of last year’s winners. These innovative designs don’t just happen overnight. Well, number six sort of did… Find out more about how these unique projects got our attention: 1. Mix Work and Play Supermass Studio was…