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In contemporary architectural projects around the world, traces of Mies persist in form and material details, lines of architectural poetry that allude and confirm his timeless adage.
Tour guides are a mixed bag. The best guides can bring a city to life, allowing visitors to truly gr asp what makes a place special. The worst ones, however, simply work from a script and can transform even the most vibrant cities into a dull series of “sites” no more inspiring than what one would…
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.