Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Known as America’s grandest and oldest exposition of contract interiors, NeoCon returned to Chicago’ s Merchandise Mart with a plethora of exciting designs for the various commercial markets, from office and education to hospitality and healthcare. We scoured the show floors to share our favorites with you but also took the time out to get inside…
Updated by Paul Keskeys, June 17, 2016 The Powers of Ten (1968) by Ray and Charles Eames is a staple film in contemporary design (and life) literacy. Considered “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress, the film was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1998. But did you know…
Redsquare Productions traveled to Aspen, Colorado, to walk through Shigeru Ban’s Aspen Art Museum an d learn how the project came to fruition from an explorative collaboration between the Japanese architect and the museum’s director, Heidi Zuckerman. Completed in 2014, the museum is an homage to the architecture and picturesque landscapes of the Western USA as…
Architecture is intimately tied to construction. It is through materials and their assembly that spa ces and experiences are realized. Construction has always been a part of architectural education, but its significance within academia varies. While institutions focus their curricula differently, each school works to build an understanding of assembly within the design process. But how…
Tomorrow marks the opening of Herzog & de Meuron’s extension for London’s Tate Modern. Sixteen y ears after the firm’s transformation of the Bankside Power Station into the original Tate Modern building, the Switch House will provide the iconic cultural institution with a new 10-story space topped by a 360-degree lookout of the city. Set above…
The 158-year-old lighting brand Louis Poulsen is making a major investment in the U.S. market with i ts first-ever permanent brick-and-mortar stateside showroom in Los Angeles. Positioned in the Helms Bakery District, a design hub of the sprawling metropolis, the grade-level showroom is the first step in a series of efforts that will increase brand awareness…
In a series of conversations with prominent architects, Dezeen — in collaboration with Architizer — explores the memories of those involved in the late Zaha Hadid’s career, highlighting some of her most spectacular projects. In this brief interview, Richard Rogers looks back on Zaha’s persistence when she proposed and successfully built the London Aquatics Centre…
The scale at which laser cutting is employed by architects has changed dramatically in the last few years.
While many contemporary architects have shunned traditional brick materials in favor of flashy glass and steel, this ancient and reliable building method can still be put to use in ways that are exciting and innovative. Brick has been used for thousands of years in constructing a number of different building typologies, but this material finds…