Inspiration: Industry

Scott & Scott Architects won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture +Self Initiated Projects categ ory with Alpine Cabin.

It’s official: The United States Olympic Committee has selected Boston for its bid for the Summer Ol ympics in 2024. In a hard-fought competition against Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C., Beantwon came out on top and will now begin its campaign to host the summer games in nine years’ time. The USA was the…

Located in the resort town of Estes Park, Colorado, the Stanley Hotel’s claim to fame is that it ins pired Stephen King to write the “The Shining,” an icon of the horror story genre that is perhaps best known in Stanley Kubrick’s legendary 1980 film adaptation. To celebrate its current management’s 20th anniversary, the hotel has…

Just seven months after a fire that destroyed part of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s eponymous bu ilding the Glasgow School of Art has announced the shortlist of five firms selected to lead the restoration of the masterpiece built between 1897 and 1909 by the Scottish architect. Via The Daily Mail The prestigious list includes Avanti Architects, John…

Installations often walk a fine line between art and architecture, if not simply because of their sc ale. The rooms at MoMA/PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, do an especially good job of facilitating this odd scalar disposition, perhaps because of the building’s own history as a school and then an art gallery. The variety of…

Last month, under Foster + Partners’ tessellated canopy at the National Portrait Gallery in Washingt on, Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA, was inaugurated as the 91st President of the AIA. A Chinese-born architect from Corpus Christi, Texas, Chu’s contributions include an award-winning public radio series, “The Shape of Texas,” in addition to her role as CEO of…

Shiro Kuramata made some of the most intriguing Post-modern furniture designs, with a narrative and visual clarity that defines the era even as it transcends the mid-century moment. His work questions the rigidity of Modernism without falling into direct uncontrolled kitsch. A exhibition at Wright Auction House in New York titled Shiro Kuramata and Hiroshi…

Come May of this year, the largest and most iconic billboard in New York City’s Times Square will ta ke a break from advertising soda and fast-fashion brands in order to promote great architecture! That’s right — a giant billboard at the “crossroads of the world” will be dedicated to celebrating the 2015 Architizer A+Award winners.…

It is no coincidence that the world's earliest surviving camera photograph captured building roofs a s seen from Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's window at Le Gras in 1822. This rudimentary photographic technique required a static subject whose anatomy could be distilled into a few essential gestures.