Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
People never tire of imagining the apocalypse. Whether in disaster films or speculative books, there is something darkly alluring about the idea of a world without people. Now, two artists have taken up the apocalyptic mantle in a new medium: the humble diorama. In a series titled “The City,” Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber modeled…
The parking garage is generally a utilitarian affair. Like the cars they house, parking garages are generally seen as necessary evils, blights on the urban landscape that are better left in the background. There is one city, however, where this isn’t the case: In Miami, parking garages, like all buildings, are designed to stand out.…
Zürich has a special relationship with the avant garde. Dada— the first modernist movement to define itself as “anti art,” a radical insurgency against the status quo — was born here. Beginning in 1916, renegades like Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball published manifestoes, put on inscrutable performances, and basically did everything they could to shock…
MVRDV is not known to create buildings that blend into the background, but the Dutch firm’s latest p roject — a library in Tianjin, China — is one of its most mesmerizing creations yet. Nearing completion and scheduled to open in mid-2017, this rectangular glass building has an almost gravitational visual pull. Tianjin Library is articulated…
Updated July 1, 2016 See-through bridges and transparent swimming pools are already in the works for the world’s architectural adrenaline junkies — but those vertigo-inducing projects may just have been trumped by a new addition to the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles. Developer OUE Limited — which purchased California’s tallest building in 2013 —…
With the end of Barack Obama’s presidency fast upon us, many Americans are scratching their heads, w ondering how eight years could have possibly gone by so fast. One group that is not feeling caught off guard, however, is the Obama Foundation, which has been laying the groundwork for the 44th’s post-presidency for some time now.…
Known to some as the Banksy of India, street artist Daku (Hindi for “bandit”) has often taken a crit ical stance on controversial contemporary issues with his work. His latest text-based installation, titled Time Changes Everything, prompts reflection rather than agitation. Mounted perpendicularly to the façade of a white building in Delhi’s Lodhi Colony, letters cast…
It is said that great art should provoke fierce responses, both positive and negative. By this crite ria, few architects would have a stronger claim to greatness than Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), the idiosyncratic Catalan master known widely as “God’s architect.” His best-known work, the still-incomplete cathedral La Sagrada Familia, was described by the modernist architect Louis…
More than a launchpad for new furniture designs, Chicago’s NeoCon is also an unveiling event for the year’s most innovative solutions ranging from performance textiles to productivity accessories. In our third and final wrapup of NeoCon 2016, we present our top picks from these categories for all of your contract design needs. ACCESSORIES Clarus Glassboards:…