Inspiration

This highly performative material is a marriage between functionality and beauty.

The artist Katie Paterson has teamed up with the architects Zeller & Moye to create a truly imme rsive public artwork that tells the story of our planet’s history through the traces left behind on ancient wood. If you’re a fan or art, natural history or even just the planet Earth itself, you’ve got to check…

Considered the cornerstone event of NYCxDESIGN, ICFF came and went, drawing more than 35,000 design professionals, an increase in attendance by 6 percent compared to 2015. The show itself was also massive, taking up a 30-percent-larger footprint at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan — and convincing us that we need two posts to…

Most rooms are left empty, representative of voids, which brings rhythms between the many events of the day-to-day.

In the introduction to her new book One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building, Judith Dupré — the author of the bestseller Skyscrapers — calls its designers Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) “a firm with unparalleled expertise in skyscraper design.” The practice, celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, recently won numerous A+Awards for projects…

Even the slightest of modifications to conventional building geometries have the potential to create more dynamic dimensions to architecture.

For many design observers the name Pininfarinais synonymous with automobiles. In 1930, Battista “Pin in” Farina founded Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in Turin, Italy, precisely to build one-off and small-batch vehicles for a tight circle of wealthy young people. The new company exhibited Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Isotta Fraschini and Fiat cars at the Paris Motor Show shortly…

The contemporary residential architecture of Japan is innovative, especially in experimentations wit h shapes, sizes and geometries. In sifting through new residential projects, we commonly find that Japanese architects seem to be drawn to creating new orthogonal volumes that are easily eye-catching yet understatedly beautiful. However, despite the burgeoning of such structural new design ideas, these…

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” Mies van der Rohe may well have been talking about masonry made from clay, but for many, the origins of their love affair with architecture can be traced back to the satisfying sound of two LEGO bricks clicking together. You’d be hard-pressed to…