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Designers continuously redefine the boundaries of architecture. From making simple, glazed connectio ns to the outdoors to intricate tile façades hung by wire, architects continue to reimagine the relationship between interior and exterior, form and envelope. Screens play an important role in that investigation, elements that help us control environmental conditions while transforming how we experience…
The single, stand-alone movie theater has transformed quite a lot in its short life. Lone screens we re originally mainstream staples (one for every town) and took on a life as local social centers, with the architectural attention to boot, before dying off to make way for anonymous, one-size-fits-all megaplexes. As this transformation matures into the…
Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of design — presenting the points of views of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Perkins+Will’s Elina Cardet — recently named interior architecture and design director at the firm’s Miami office — shares her experience with the emotional aspects of…
When New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art reopened in a new downtown location last year, i t introduced natural light and views that the previous Breuer brutalist home lacked. But to balance the new building’s cool glass-and-metal aesthetic, architects Renzo Piano and Cooper Robertson also incorporated seas of wood flooring that lend the gallery…
As the foundational material of many structures — and the key to their structural integrity — concre te is an essential and strikingly common building material for a diverse range of buildings. In addition to its strength and durability in ensuring a building remains standing, concrete also has certain material properties that lend themselves well to…
New York City is known for its expansive views: Nothing approaches the modern sublime quite like tak ing in the Manhattan skyline from a Brooklyn rooftop. However, the city does not offer a comparable experience with regard to the natural world. Beautiful as Central Park is, the experience of nature one finds here is cozy and…
Walk into a Luceplan showroom and you might encounter hovering luminescent forms like none you’ve se en before. Finally being introduced stateside, these unique suspension fixtures that were launched in Europe last year are at once stunning, intriguing, organic and otherworldly. Yet each has a different personality that sets it apart from the others. Soleil Noir…
Glass is one of the most commonly used materials for contemporary buildings, and architects are look ing beyond its application for conventional windows and doors.
HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro is a Japanese architecture firm based in Iiyama, Atsugi, in the Kanaga wa Prefecture in Japan. With an archive of over 350 projects, the firm specializes in designing and building infrastructures for childhood environments, including day cares, nurseries, and kindergartens. Taku Hibino from HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro talked with Architizer…