Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
For more than 75 years, Symmons Industries has offered architects, designers and property owners bea utifully designed plumbing products for commercial and residential applications. Today, the brand still rolls out products that are built to last, designed to stand out and backed by a customer-first culture, while going a step further with the Symmons Design Studio™,…
Most end-of-year holiday celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere tend to take place around, or at le ast nearby, a fireplace. In the grand tradition of Christmas, where as the story goes, Santa shimmies down chimneys to deliver presents to children worldwide on Christmas Eve. The fireplace is the central totem of Christmas gatherings — a place…
Serge Najjar’s home city is one of his greatest sources of inspiration, and he seeks to capture its diverse architectural fabric via this series of striking abstract photographs.
The restricted palette of these tiny buildings requires maximized logic – efficiency and creativity are paramount.
From burial sites and asylum tunnels to Cold War bunkers, you wouldn’t believe some of the secrets t hat go on behind closed doors of the architecture we thought we knew. What famous buildings are hiding something from us?
It is no exaggeration to say that 2016 has been a year unlike any other in recent memory. Characteri zed by tension, tenacity and occasional tragedy, the past 12 months have been predictable only in their unpredictability — and those constant twists and turns extended to the architectural profession, with moments of inspiration intertwined with controversy…
From the expansive Parc de la Tête d’Or to Place Bellecour square, Lyon’s urban fabric is characteri zed by openings and thoroughfares.
Blake Goble, AIA, Leed AP, and Libby Zemaitis, MBA, MS, introduce Up Homes, their modular design con cept for compact homes that promotes space efficiency, site adaptability and energy consciousness.
Japanese youths’ infatuation for cosplay and vibrant make-up is on full display in the convivial str eets of Harajuku, but just blocks away in the Omotesando district of Tokyo, another cosmetic trend characteristic of the Japanese has osmosed its way onto the façades of Tokyo’s high-end retailers. The exteriors of these seven retailers operate in tandem…