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From compact spaces to light and inexpensive materiality to ease of construction and green building practices, these projects redefine the meaning of home.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) recently unveiled plans for its newest endeavor, a renovation of the are a adjacent to Masaryk Railway Station in Prague, Czech Republic. This major building project will reinvigorate a brownfield urban site that has been derelict for the past several years and will establish a new central business district for the city.…

Long before Americans succumbed to the lure of a low-cost flat-pack furniture brand called IKEA, the y discovered the charms of Scandinavian design through a rather ingenious chair: Made within the constraints of wartime material shortages, the chair utilized cedar scraps and webbing of army-rejected nylon straps from parachute production. This design, created by Jens Risom…

The Woodhull Medical Center (1969–1978) by Kallman & McKinnell — designers of the oft-loathed Bo ston City Hall — and Kenzo Tange’s Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Center (1961–1966) are two geographically and typologically remote projects, but ones that emerged from the same architectural ethos: an unabashed structural expression of buildings as containers for social activities rather…

Cross-cultural understandings of blue as the color of a subdued, passive feeling ensures it will hav e a strong effect when used in architecture.

On June 24th, visitors to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park can take a 40-second plunge do wn the Arcelormittal Orbit via the world’s largest slide. The twisting, turning attraction takes thrill seekers through 584 feet (178 meters) of inner tube, wrapping around the structure 12 times and providing extraordinary views of London’s city skyline. Designed by…

This video series is realized in collaboration with ‘Architectures’ — a series presented by the Arts and Culture Bureau — offering unique views into the concepts and forms of built landmarks. every week, we present one building, accompanied by a short video from their youtube channel. In 2010, the Rolex Learning Center was built near…

This article is the first in a series that that tells the story of how Source — Architizer’s new mar ketplace for building products — helps architects create brilliant buildings. HEAD THIS WAY For more information on the platform. When SHoP Architects unveiled its proposal for the Uber Headquarters — a gleaming “vertical city” set to…

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