Reports on the latest and greatest from the architecture and building-product industries.
Dallas is no stranger to the striking, sculptural works of Santiago Calatrava. Back in 2012, the cit y was given its first taste of the world-renowned architect’s distinctive style with the arrival of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, an iconic cable-stayed structure spanning 1,200 feet across the Trinity River. Now, Calatrava is back, and he is…
Australia and Scandinavia belong to two different worlds in terms of language, climate, and geograph y, but one thing these two disparate places have in common is their high standards of education and innovative strategies for learning. Philosophies from both sides of the globe are now coming together in a new project by Danish firm Henning…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that British architect David Adjaye is to be the latest recipient of the prestigious Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100,000 prize also includes a valuable artist’s residency at the Institute in the spring of next year. Adjaye is set to take part in a…
After surviving long, intensive university programs and continuing professional development througho ut their careers, architects understand the importance of education better than anyone. It is no surprise, then, that an international competition to design a major new educational complex in Russia attracted some of the biggest firms in the world, including Dutch studio MVRDV and Japanese…
Zaha Hadid Architects is a firm known for its epic fly-through videos used to illustrate its grand p lans with beautifully rendered details. Recently, though, the studio is increasingly using this medium to show its buildings coming to life in the real world. The following “teaser trailer” gives a bird’s-eye view of the site for a…
Ma Yansong is never one to shy away from big ideas. Not long after revealing his firm’s first reside ntial project in the United States — the green-walled 8600 Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif. — the Chinese champion of sustainable cities has conceived a new scheme for Los Angeles, scaling up his utopian concepts to a…
Few architects have had as great an influence on the design of our built environment over the last h alf a century than Le Corbusier, so it is unsurprising that the modernist’s work is still being celebrated today, 50 years on from his death. This new interactive map from infographic magicians Timescape provides a comprehensive overview…
We recently covered the phenomenon of star architects disowning their projects, but this year’s bigg est story in the profession is about defending a design to the death. London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects was hit with an almighty blow last month when their competition-winning proposal for the Tokyo National Stadium — the subject of two years…
Brooklyn-based studio Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu, otherwise known as SO – IL, is coming home. T hey have designed a new hybrid space for exhibiting and creating art in a nearby neighborhood, blending their idiosyncratic style with the urban fabric of New York City’s most populous borough. The Artes Amant Gallery will house “the production,…