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As the story goes, during the recess between world wars, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a startli ngly modern home for a Jewish businessman and his new wife in Czechoslovakia. The Villa Tugendhat, a building of dramatic vertical and horizontal lines marked by a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows, managed to survive many instances of…
Two Italian architects, Valeria Mercuri and Marco Merletti, recently won third place in eVolo’s 2016 Skyscraper Competition for their project ‘Data Tower.’ While much attention was given to the first-place winners, Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, for their horizontal skyscraper wrapping around the perimeter of a sunken Central Park, Mercuri and Merletti stepped away from…
For the last week in Milan at Salone del Mobile 2016, a simple question was explored with seemingly endless possibilities: How shall we live? Though entirely open-ended at first glance, the framework for the answer is actually surprisingly predetermined due to one growing, indisputable trend. As people flock to cities in ever-increasing numbers, the demand…
During the 2016 Milan Design Week, the colonnaded cloister of Basilica Minore di San Simpliciano, in the heart of the city’s Brera Design District, underwent a brilliant transformation courtesy of Japanese creative studio Nendo. The installation, titled 50 Manga Chairs, featured, as the name says, 50 different chairs lined up in a perfect grid filling…
Photography studios are a curious type of space. Not quite open-air art studio, and not usually havi ng a fixed formal layout, they are part of a range of building typologies that can morph and change according to needs. There isn’t a single template that guides the design of a photography studio, and as such, they…
Ian Gillespie of Vancouver developer Westbank recently announced architect Kengo Kuma as the latest to partner with the company in its ongoing expansion of the city’s skyline. Kuma will add to a list of high-rise projects underway and completed by BIG, Henriquez Partners Architects and James KM Cheng Architects, among others. BIG’s Vancouver House and…
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” That mantra — the memorable max im of famed British novelist C.S. Lewis — undoubtedly chimes with the philosophies of architect Matthias Hollwich. The German-American designer and author, cofounder of New York–based firm Hollwich Kushner (HWKN), has recently taken on one…
Located on an ancient lakebed bounded by river valleys, Taipei is a world all its own. Known for its blended mix of cultures and traditions as a global metropolis, the city is continuously redefining its architectural identity. Traditional design elements like wood construction, an axis of symmetry, key bricks and enclosed courtyards are often creatively…
At the height of Salone del Mobile in Milan, Architizer hosted a dinner party right in the MINI LIVI NG Installation. Bridging privacy and community is central to the MINI LIVING Installation. While curious visitors freely roamed the space to kick the proverbial tyres of the concept apartment, special guests sat down to a long candlelit…