Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
Last night’s A+Awards gala was a joyous celebration of great architecture and the talented people th at help bring it to reality. However, this year’s joy was tinged with sadness, because 2016 is no ordinary year for the profession: It has recently suffered the loss of one of its brightest stars, Dame Zaha Hadid, who passed…
Through a continuing partnership with Phaidon – the premier global publisher of the creative a rts with over 1,500 titles in print – Architizer will once again compile this year’s Jury and Popular Winners of the A+Awards into a hard cover book. The book is available for pre-order, and will be available for purchase at the…
Please grab a comfortable seat, I’m afraid I have some bad news. 11 of New York’s most cherished arc hitectural landmarks have vanished. The only clues investigators have are a few photos of uncertain origin depicting the buildings in unidentifiable, barren landscapes. It’s never been easier to land a good seat at the Metropolitan Opera ……
With alt-rock pioneers Radioheadin the news, many architecture fans might be daydreaming about what their favorite buildings would look like “in rainbows.” Well, if Frank Gehry’sFondation Louis Vuitton is among your top icons, you’re in luck: conceptual artist Daniel Buren’s newest site-specific installation Observatory of Light paints this modern Parisian landmark in luminous tones, just…
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) recently unveiled plans for its newest endeavor, a renovation of the are a adjacent to Masaryk Railway Station in Prague, Czech Republic. This major building project will reinvigorate a brownfield urban site that has been derelict for the past several years and will establish a new central business district for the city.…
Long before Americans succumbed to the lure of a low-cost flat-pack furniture brand called IKEA, the y discovered the charms of Scandinavian design through a rather ingenious chair: Made within the constraints of wartime material shortages, the chair utilized cedar scraps and webbing of army-rejected nylon straps from parachute production. This design, created by Jens Risom…
On June 24th, visitors to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park can take a 40-second plunge do wn the Arcelormittal Orbit via the world’s largest slide. The twisting, turning attraction takes thrill seekers through 584 feet (178 meters) of inner tube, wrapping around the structure 12 times and providing extraordinary views of London’s city skyline. Designed by…
The 27th edition of Lightfair International — the world’s largest annual lighting trade show — took over the San Diego Convention Center last week, once again showcasing cutting edge fixtures and systems, emerging technologies and decorative products for both commercial and consumer markets. If you missed the expo, here are seven products from the show…
Walk through the galleries of the Met’s newly opened “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technolo gy” exhibition to the soundtrack of Brian Eno’s 1978 “Ambient 1: Music For Airports” and time feels as if it had been slowed down. The commissioned architects for the exhibition design were Rotterdam-based OMA, and to marry the…