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On the eve of PIN-UP magazine’s 10th anniversary, Architizer spoke with the publication’s founding e ditor Felix Burrichter about issue 20, graphic design in architecture and dream features for its future (Mr. Gehry, if you’re reading this … ). Emma Macdonald: Congratulations on the new issue. What brought about its theme, ‘garden variety’? Felix Burrichter: The…
For the eighth year, Marvin Windows and Doors sponsored its competition that celebrates outstanding project designs incorporating the manufacturer’s products — otherwise known as the Marvin Architects Challenge. Results of the 2016 edition once again delivered a feast for the eyes as they were announced at the AIA expo in Philadelphia. And the winners are…
After a 2008 voter-approved bond, the team at Opsis Architecture was tasked with updating Portland C ommunity College’s Rock Creek Campus. In line with a city known for green initiatives and smart growth, the bond stipulated that the 1970s buildings be updated and expanded while also reducing sprawl and becoming more efficient. Cascade Architectural worked closely…
This complex country is home to some incredible building projects.
The towers showcase diverse ideas examining the city’s programmatic and spatial conditions.
Aileen Kwun and Bryn Smith’s newly released book Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design is a veritable treasure trove of knowledge from a group of architects who have seen it all. Kwun and Smith’s premise was simple: Sit down with 20 key figures in the profession over the age of…
Since Swiss-French modernist architect Le Corbusier wrote his seminal “Five Points Towards a New Arc hitecture” in 1926, the discipline has seen countless interpretations of modernism and an ever-diversifying range of trends throughout the postmodernist period. The following series of contemporary homes all follow at least the very first of Le Corbusier’s foundational principles: the supports.…
“It’s ridiculous that we have these hundred-year-old buildings that everyone loves, and none of them ‘should’ be the way they are.”
“I will never forget this day,” the Parisian street artist JR said on Wednesday. “Today I’m going to make the Louvre Pyramid disappear.” The Louvre Pyramid was commissioned in 1984 by the French President François Mitterrand and designed by the legendary architect I.M. Pei. For over 30 years, the Pyramid has served as the main…