Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Six years ago, a perplexing anomaly sat on display in New York City’s Museum of Art and Design (aka MAD). The object, a wood chair, appeared to be solid at the top, but the legs faded into nothingness as if they were dematerializing right before our eyes. This oddity was no physics experiment gone awry,…
These innovative precedents explore the diverse formal and spatial organizations being created for s tops in six different countries.
An initiative cofounded by the Canadian firms RAW Design, Ferris + Associates and Curio, the annual Winter Stations Design Competition is an open-air art installation that strives to bring Toronto residents outside in the coldest months of the year. The competition called for architects, artists or designers to intervene on the existing lifeguard stands stationed…
Today's mixed-use urban designs provide an exceptionally high level of prescription compared to plan ning efforts of the previous century.
Ban's contemporary dwelling in Yamanashi, Japan, channels the spirit of one of Mies van der Rohe’s g reatest works.
Tokyo's housing is more tightly packed than almost any other metropolis.
On the 27th of February 2016, visionary French architect Claude Parent passed away aged 93. Describe d by philosopher Paul Virilio as a “utopianist of the territory,” Parent was known as a “supermodernist” who frequently confounded the architectural expectations of his peers, producing spectacular and often subversive projects to test the rigid principles of Modernism. Claude…
The mayor of Lyon recently unveiled plans for a massive renovation of Part-Dieu, an iconic shopping center located in the center of the French city. Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV will carry out the transformation, which involves the construction of a massive, elevated public garden and aims to seamlessly blend the shopping center with the urban fabric…
In the past, the term “mobile home” might have brought to mind visions of RV parks full of glossy fi berglass trailers and the shimmering shells of classic Airstream campers. The designers of the VISTA Tiny Home have other ideas. They have unveiled a mobile cabin clad with warm cedar and Corten steel, creating a compact…