Inspiration: Industry

“There’s so many things I love about architecture.” Cory Taylor, architect at Belzberg Architects, f eels pretty lucky. The first architect to become a partner with Hagy Belzberg, founder of Belzberg Architects, Taylor has found a career that he is passionate about and a job in which he can exert a positive influence on the world around him at an organization that is generating fresh new approaches to design each day. Life in this profession is anything but predictable — more than ever these days for those working at the Santa Monica, Calif.-based studio.

Where better to address the issue of housing shortage than in one of the world’s 50 most densely pop ulated cities? Located in Seoul’s largest district, the Songpa Micro-Housing functions as a small urban village in which the line between individual living units and semi-public and open-program spaces are blurred, adding significant social value to the reconfigurable blocks of the complex.

Around 8,700 miles (14,000 kilometers) separates Chicago from Ho Chi Minh City, but certain architec tural typologies are known to transcend borders and travel extraordinary distances. Some 42 years since Skidmore Owings and Merrill oversaw the completion of the iconic Willis Tower in the Windy City, a new skyscraper with a very similar language is now…

British architect David Chipperfield is renowned for his use of columns in cultural projects, having designed numerous contemporary museums and galleries inspired by the classical compositions of Greek and Roman architecture. Now, he has utilized the rhythmic qualities of these structural elements in the private residential sector, completing a pair of luxury villas on the…

One of the world’s most ancient architectural forms, the pyramid, is experiencing a remarkable resur gence across the Middle East and Europe. Following the revelation that Egypt will be building its first pyramid in 4,500 years — not to mention Herzog and de Meuron’s recently approved triangular tower in Paris — Daniel Libeskind has now joined…

With 90+ categories and 300+ jurors, the Architizer A+Awards is the world’s definitive archite ctural awards program. Following the culmination of the 2015 program in May, we are pleased to showcase at some of the 100+ winners. In partnership with Cadillac, this series of profiles offers an exclusive look at several firms that push the boundaries…

If you thought the current boom in high-luxury residential architecture in New York City was confine d to Midtown’s “Billionaire’s Row,” think again. Construction has just broken ground on a sparkling new condominium in the heart of Tribeca, with the new skyscraper set to rub shoulders with SOM’s One World Trade Center and, eventually, BIG’s own…

Named for a peak in its native Norway, Snøhetta has been on the rise for some time now, and in Italy , they are looking to ascend higher still — literally. The Norwegian studio has won another international competition, this time to design the new Bolzano Cable Car Transit Hub in the heart of the Italian…

If you are looking for a summer getaway with a dash of architectural splendor, you could do a lot wo rse than to explore some of the latest luxury resorts to rise in Southeast Asia. Earlier this year, we toured the gorgeous brick canyons of Onion Co. Ltd.’s stunning Sala Ayutthaya Hotel in Thailand, and now…