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Architizer’s A+Awards, the world’s largest awards program for architecture and products, remains open for entries until the end of January! Click here to submit your project now. Is it just us, or is it getting cold out there? After an unseasonably warm autumn in many parts of the world, it seems that one of Game…
Zaha Hadid looks likely to be spending a good portion of her summer on Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copac abana Beach this summer, but she is unlikely to be relaxing on the sand with a cocktail in hand. The British-Iraqi architect has teamed up with Arup and Mello Afonso Engineering to commence work on her firm’s…
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light,” L e Corbusier wrote in his 1923 manifesto Towards a New Architecture. The same can be said of the architectural photography of Hélène Binet, the 2015 recipient of the Julius Shulman Photography Award. Over the past 25 years, Binet has worked closely…
Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been awarded the J.C. Nichols Prize for Vision aries in Urban Development given by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to those who demonstrate a “longtime commitment to the creation of communities that reflect the high standards of design and development.” The ULI commended Rogers for a “more…
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” So said Renzo Piano, but, however unreasonable he may believe this premise to be, the architect has come closer than ever to achieving the feat with an astonishing new structure in Athens, Greece. The Energy Canopy is a huge roof…
Following the completion of the largest building in the Netherlands, OMA has returned to its spiritu al home with another conceptual curiosity in Rotterdam. The mixed-use Timmerhuis building has arrived in the heart of the Dutch city, its cascading terraces of glazed cubes now visible above the skyline not far from the distinctive curved form of…
Lebbeus Woods' architectural drawings are among the most arresting in history.
Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando (together with American artist Elyn Zimmerman) has been named a winner of the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award, which is awarded “to individuals who share [museum founder] Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, global consciousness, and East-West exchange.” Tadao Ando, 2004; via Wikipedia Past winners of the award include some prestigious names from…
Architizer’s A+Awards is the world’s premier awards program for architecture and products. Click her e to enter now, and act fast: the final entry deadline is january 29th. “We’re not here to build for other architects, we’re here to build for all of humankind.” Bjarke Ingels’ quote serves to remind everyone in the architectural profession about…