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A London gallery designed to house the private collection of notorious artist Damien Hirst has scoop ed this year’s Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. Caruso St John’s building, defined by striking brick facades and a distinctive sawtooth roof, beat out five other standout projects to the prize, including Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School…
This article is part of a series that that tells the story of how Source — Architizer’s new m arketplace for building products — helps architects create brilliant buildings. HEAD THIS WAY For more information on the platform. By now, you will likely be familiar with our popular series “Rendering to Reality,” which looks at…
It’s all very well coming up with a stunning architectural concept like Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera Ho use or Maurice Koechlin’s Parisian tower, but when it comes to the crunch, even the most inspiring of forms need to be rationalized in order to become a reality. This means that architects owe much to the world’s best…
In a time when catering to minds and bodies is insufficient, spaces must engage our eyes with a refi ned sense of aesthetics while we break a sweat.
A few weeks ago, we published an article outlining an in-depth tech test that would aim to uncover t he benefits of using Microsoft’s Surface Book for the design and construction of complex architectural projects. The experiment involved five leading architecture firms and five real-world projects, each at a different stage of development from concept all…
Hong Kong is defined by superlatives. As the world’s fourth most densely populated sovereign state, the autonomous territory balances one of the highest per capita incomes in the world and severe income inequality across its seven million inhabitants. The Special Administrative Region also holds the second largest number of high rises of any city in…
Behold Cram's imaginary metropolis of columns, domes, crowns and spires.
With a little ingenuity, the team was able to design soccer fields that, while asymmetrical, are bal anced enough to facilitate fair gameplay.
It’s official: Brexit is happening. UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced this past weekend that t he process leading to the country’s departure from the European Union would be put into motion before the end of March 2017, promising to strike a deal with the EU as an “independent, sovereign” UK For all the words of…