Inspiration

Feast your eyes on these examples of “invisible” architecture.

Not anyone can elevate the childhood craft of papier mâché and use it to produce a commercially viab le furniture line. But, then, Studio Job isn’t just anyone. From the Paper collection that was conceived for Dutch brand Moooi to a radical 12-foot-tall sculpture of the Burj Khalifa being scaled by King Kong, the Antwerp-based studio…

Long gone are the days when digital tools functioned simply as representational vehicles for great p rojects. By modeling in three dimensions, architects are increasingly using the generative potentials of software during all stages of design. With this change came various compatibility constraints that forced architects to relinquish some of the control by relying on a…

Two startling architectural cliffhangers — the cantilevered Biré Bitori restaurant by TALL ARQUITECT OS and the sublime Cliff Retreat, beautifully rendered by Alex Hogrefe — have gone viral on Architizer during the past month. While these conceptual projects were met with a great deal of awe on Facebook, a number of people were skeptical about these…

Plans for Expo 2020 in Dubai are taking shape. Organizers of the event recently announced the design s of the three major pavilions for the exposition, which were chosen from a pool of 13 submissions. The winning firms are Foster + Partners, BIG and Grimshaw, with each design following one of the three themes for the…

This may be the digital age when everything has gone paperless and people digest literature through tablet readers and audiobooks, yet the love affair with a beautifully or cleverly integrated bookcase continues to endure in design, today. Here are some recent projects that have titillated us with their solutions — and product suggestions for creating…

When it was announced that Architecture for Humanity — one of the world’s most well-known nonprofit organizations dedicated to humanitarian design — was closing its doors on January 1st last year, there was collective dismay amongst architects across the globe. Architecture for Humanity had become renowned as a bastion of public-interest design, inspiring architects to…

Generally speaking, many of those outside of the design world tend to associate architects with mono lithic buildings like skyscrapers or museums, linking a façade with the associated architect. On the other hand, a similar connection is made between interior designers and inside spaces like restaurants or hotels — interiors are associated with the atmospheric qualities…

Plans for an iconic new civic center for the Darling Square district of Sydney have been announced b y Kengo Kuma, proposed in collaboration with development company Lendlease. The six-story, spiraling tower will contain a market hall on the ground floor in addition to a public library, a center for childcare and a rooftop bar. The…