Inspiration

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…

Widely considered the world’s biggest lighting and building-tech trade fair, Light + Building took F rankfurt, Germany, by storm last week, attracting some 216,000 trade professionals. But cutting-edge product wasn’t the only draw: Attendees also came out to see Luminale — the Biennale of Lighting Culture — which presented more than 200 lighting installations throughout the…

In 1936, a small architectural firm was founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Louis Skidmore and Nathanie l Owings. Three years later, they would be joined by John O. Merrill, their initials forming an acronym that would become synonymous with skyscrapers, the International Style and global architectural practice. 80 years on, that trio of architects has transformed…

You may have lost your chance to snatch a piece of the Berlin Wall, but there’s plenty of opportunit y to buy and wear a piece of contemporary architecture, so to speak. The anticipated expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Snøhetta, opens this May, and to celebrate, the SFMOMA Museum Store…

The competition to design the First & Broadway Civic Center Park in Downtown Los Angeles has com e down to four finalists: OMA, AECOM, Brooks + Scarpa andEric Owen Moss Architects. From cantilevered restaurants to undulating strips of raised gardens, each of the remaining proposals includes features that would dramatically change the landscape of America’s second-largest…

Updated April 4th, 2016. Amidst the cooing over beautiful architecture across social media platforms in recent months, there has been a bubbling undercurrent of tension — and it is all down to the humble treads and risers of domestic staircases. Facebook comments beneath stunning project interiors have revealed concerns amongst some readers about the safety…

São Paulo Arquitetura’s recently opened Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro is a building of contrasting ar chitectural qualities. A windowless, concrete monolith, the cultural center nevertheless allows a great deal of natural light due to strategically placed folds in the asymmetrical design. A latticed wood screen on the front of the building lends texture and warmth to…

There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to contracts between owners and architects, which is w hy we have outlined the benefits of standard AIA Documents, like the B101, for architects in the past. That contract allows for addendum lists and references to be customized for covering numerous details of one large project.…