Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
São Paulo Arquitetura’s recently opened Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro is a building of contrasting ar chitectural qualities. A windowless, concrete monolith, the cultural center nevertheless allows a great deal of natural light due to strategically placed folds in the asymmetrical design. A latticed wood screen on the front of the building lends texture and warmth to…
There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to contracts between owners and architects, which is w hy we have outlined the benefits of standard AIA Documents, like the B101, for architects in the past. That contract allows for addendum lists and references to be customized for covering numerous details of one large project.…
The Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) in Shenzhen, China, designed by CO OP HIMMELB(L)AU is nearing completion. Led by Wolf D. Prix, the Austrian practice won a competition to design the cultural complex in 2007 and has spent the last eight years developing the project using innovative construction concepts. Robots were used in…
A zebra can change its stripes, as demonstrated by “Dot,” the spotted zebra that stood guard over a wood farm table set against a safari-evoking backdrop. Meanwhile, a sea of faces doodled onto whiteboard gazed upon a stark white table and complementing crisp-white stools. These constitute just a smidgeon of the 33 vignettes created by…
The Götz Collection museum showcases the pared-back potential of wood
Feast your eyes on these examples of “invisible” architecture.
Not anyone can elevate the childhood craft of papier mâché and use it to produce a commercially viab le furniture line. But, then, Studio Job isn’t just anyone. From the Paper collection that was conceived for Dutch brand Moooi to a radical 12-foot-tall sculpture of the Burj Khalifa being scaled by King Kong, the Antwerp-based studio…
Long gone are the days when digital tools functioned simply as representational vehicles for great p rojects. By modeling in three dimensions, architects are increasingly using the generative potentials of software during all stages of design. With this change came various compatibility constraints that forced architects to relinquish some of the control by relying on a…
Two startling architectural cliffhangers — the cantilevered Biré Bitori restaurant by TALL ARQUITECT OS and the sublime Cliff Retreat, beautifully rendered by Alex Hogrefe — have gone viral on Architizer during the past month. While these conceptual projects were met with a great deal of awe on Facebook, a number of people were skeptical about these…