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Upon visiting the High Line for the first time in May 2004, the team members of James Corner Field O perations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro entered a lost world, far removed from the New York City they were so accustomed to. A decade later, their transformation of this industrial relic into a stunning elevated park…
From a select gathering of modernist decorative arts galleries, Design Miami/ has become second only to Art Basel Miami Beach as the must-attend event of Miami Art Week. The design fair’s tent has grown in vision, as well, as corporate sponsors, young gallerists, students, and others now take a place alongside the original exhibitors. Design…
One of the standout installations at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial is, undoubtedly, SP IRIT OF SPACE’s collaboration with OPEN Architecture. This innovative group of moviemakers teamed up with Li Hu’s Beijing-based firm to tell the story of the Garden School in the Chinese capital, and new footage has now been released with compelling commentary on…
In this edition of Architizer Asks, architects and interior designers across the country sound off o n what their current favorite lighting product is, whether it’s a decorative luminaire or utilitarian fixture. Here’s what they had to say:
The challenge of utilizing stone in a fresh and dynamic way has been something of a hot topic lately . Renzo Piano found ingenious ways to modernize the sandstone of Malta in his Valetta City Gate master plan, and there have been numerous examples recently of cool, contemporary designs harnessing the age-old technique of gabion walling.…
Danish firm Schimdt Hammer Lassen has won an international competition to design a new district in c entral Oslo, Norway, totaling almost one million square feet. According to the architects, Eureka Kvarteret has been conceived as a “unifying urban development icon” notable for its phased construction plan intended to create “fertile ground for the life between…
Alucobond is the Kleenex of aluminum composite material: comprising two sheets of 0.02-inch-thick al uminum thermobonded to a core material, Alucobond has become synonymous with ACM. One reason why the brand is so trusted by the design community is that it has long been used to resist fire. Just several years after the product’s 1964 launch,…
The greatest challenge facing architects when designing religious spaces pertains to the profundity of program: how do you create an atmosphere befitting such weighty functions as worshiping, professing faith, celebrating new life, or grieving death? One way in which many firms achieve answers to these questions is by harnessing an intangible element that possesses greater…
TO CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF OUR 4TH ANNUAL A+AWARDS, WE’RE TAKING A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF OUR F AVORITE PROJECTS FROM 2015. WANT TO GET IN ON THE ACTION? CHECK OUT THE A+AWARDS PAGETO FIND OUT HOW TO ENTER. Parisians should share some of the plaudits when it comes to celebrating the High Line in…