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Considered the world’s largest collection of premier boutiques for home building and renovation, Lux eHome at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart will host the Chicago Design Summit. This residential design summit — the Midwest’s largest — will showcase 31 innovative programs, CEU seminars and events featuring industry luminaries, 11 strategic media partners and over a dozen notable editors,…
Happy 79th birthday, Renzo Piano! The Pritzker Prize–winning architect first gained global recogniti on in his mid-30s with the design of the Centre Pompidou, and decades later, he is still garnering our attention. While some may argue that Piano lacks a certain “signature” style that many of his illustrious peers possess, the Italian architect continues to…
Ole Scheeren’s unique tower features a three-dimensional ribbon of architectural pixels.
The wide array of digital design tools available to architects today can sometimes be a double-edge sword. While the variety of software is enabling architects to customize their workflows, having to switch from program to program can cause bottlenecks, hinder efficiency and make collaboration unnecessarily cumbersome. Prior to the creation of BIM, architects generated 3D…
In the recent past, outdoor space in high-rise buildings has gone from being called “roof decks” and “balconies” to “sky gardens” and “sky parks.” The real estate branding potential in the “sky” part of the label is obvious, but a more significant shift is evident in the choice of the second word, as it denotes…
Burning Man 2016 might have come to a close, but like a phoenix it will rise again next year, hotter and brighter than ever. Until then, we are left with the memories of this one-of-a-kind festival, which ties art, music and design together with the spirit of community. If you missed the festivities in Black…
The preeminent tennis tournament in America, the U.S. Open is back in full swing in Queens, New York , as of this week and continues into early September. Traditionally, the tail end of summer is a spectacular and dry period in the region, but in the last several years, the Open suffered delayed and even suspended…
On a warm late-summer day, we traveled up from busy New York City to the quiet suburban town that is New Canaan, Connecticut. For anyone who has visited Philip Johnson’s Glass House and the 49-acre property on which it sits, you will remember the imposing gate — two tall trapezoidal stone columns that carry a…
The debate over technology in architecture is seemingly endless, with certain questions igniting the fires of forums across the internet each and every time they are put forward: Apple or PC? Revit or ArchiCAD? Rhino or 3ds Max? IPhone or Android? The list goes on and on, but these questions are never truly answerable unless…