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New York City is known for its expansive views: Nothing approaches the modern sublime quite like tak ing in the Manhattan skyline from a Brooklyn rooftop. However, the city does not offer a comparable experience with regard to the natural world. Beautiful as Central Park is, the experience of nature one finds here is cozy and…
Walk into a Luceplan showroom and you might encounter hovering luminescent forms like none you’ve se en before. Finally being introduced stateside, these unique suspension fixtures that were launched in Europe last year are at once stunning, intriguing, organic and otherworldly. Yet each has a different personality that sets it apart from the others. Soleil Noir…
Glass is one of the most commonly used materials for contemporary buildings, and architects are look ing beyond its application for conventional windows and doors.
HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro is a Japanese architecture firm based in Iiyama, Atsugi, in the Kanaga wa Prefecture in Japan. With an archive of over 350 projects, the firm specializes in designing and building infrastructures for childhood environments, including day cares, nurseries, and kindergartens. Taku Hibino from HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro talked with Architizer…
Widely considered the world’s biggest lighting and building-tech trade fair, Light + Building took F rankfurt, Germany, by storm last week, attracting some 216,000 trade professionals. But cutting-edge product wasn’t the only draw: Attendees also came out to see Luminale — the Biennale of Lighting Culture — which presented more than 200 lighting installations throughout the…
In 1936, a small architectural firm was founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Louis Skidmore and Nathanie l Owings. Three years later, they would be joined by John O. Merrill, their initials forming an acronym that would become synonymous with skyscrapers, the International Style and global architectural practice. 80 years on, that trio of architects has transformed…
You may have lost your chance to snatch a piece of the Berlin Wall, but there’s plenty of opportunit y to buy and wear a piece of contemporary architecture, so to speak. The anticipated expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Snøhetta, opens this May, and to celebrate, the SFMOMA Museum Store…
The competition to design the First & Broadway Civic Center Park in Downtown Los Angeles has com e down to four finalists: OMA, AECOM, Brooks + Scarpa andEric Owen Moss Architects. From cantilevered restaurants to undulating strips of raised gardens, each of the remaining proposals includes features that would dramatically change the landscape of America’s second-largest…
Updated April 4th, 2016. Amidst the cooing over beautiful architecture across social media platforms in recent months, there has been a bubbling undercurrent of tension — and it is all down to the humble treads and risers of domestic staircases. Facebook comments beneath stunning project interiors have revealed concerns amongst some readers about the safety…