Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
When SANAA’s Grace Farms opened to the public last month, visitors were treated to a feast for the e yes — from the sinuous architecture and connecting spaces of The River building to the surrounding landscape’s early-autumn foliage. But equally impressive were a number of the project’s furniture pieces and light fixtures that the Japanese Pritzker…
To date, FormIt 360 is the only conceptual BIM tool that allows you to build 3D models on a tablet d evice instead of merely viewing them — and it’s all about finger control.
Both versatile and pragmatic, sheet metal is quickly becoming a popular choice for modern projects. While it’s currently used in numerous capacities, including as airplane wings and car bodies, architects have begun specifying sheet metal for roofs, walls, and complex façade designs. Manufactured through industrial processes, the metal undergoes many different forming techniques: rolling, bending,…
While the Day of the Dead opening sequence might have stolen the spotlight in the latest 007 movie S pectre, a certain design icon very quietly infiltrated the set — and has made a cameo in just about every James Bond film not via product placement, but by selection. Just take a look back at the…
As any architect knows, a sound substructure literally and figuratively is the foundation of any bui lding. And the key to a solid foundation, of course, is a comprehensive survey and geotechnical evaluation. To that end, the American Institute of Architects has recently released a series of new contract documents that are expressly intended to define…
From delicate stone screens to solid envelopes, these buildings emerge from their surroundings as or dered, hierarchical volumes.
When viewing the work of London-based Neil Tomlinson Architects, it becomes quite clear that the sta ircase is not an afterthought in the design process. On the contrary, it is sometimes a key element, as demonstrated by two recently completed local residential commissions. Morton Mews. Photography by Agnese Sanvito. For the Morton Mews project, the architects…
Echoing Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages of Man,” we look at seven of the most seminal moments for contempo rary concrete and its most influential advocates.
In 1896 Austrian architect and urban planner Otto Wagner published Modern Architecture in response t o his distaste for the 19th-century custom of employing old historical styles. The textbook reflects his ideas about the role of the architect in using new materials and forms to reflect the needs of a society that was changing during the…