Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Designing gallery spaces is a complex feat. The architect must design for the values of the insti tution with a critical focus on creating a specific and appropriate experience for the users. In a setting where the interior circulation must be designed in a way where people can easily move around and view what is…
You may well be accustomed to the truly striking portrayals of contemporary architecture on Instagra m, but the ubiquitous app also contains gems from centuries long past. A photographer who goes by the username m1rasoulifard has captured an extraordinary array of Iran’s historic structures, focusing on the gloriously detailed ceilings of mosques and cultural complexes across…
The classic bathroom elements of white ceramic fixtures, marble vanity tops, wood-simulating cabinet s and metallic-finish faucets and fittings aren’t the only games in town recently. Color is creeping back into the bath in tasteful ways — and we’re not talking about tile or chromatherapy systems. Bette: Bettelux ShapeA series of beautiful freestanding tubs and washbasins…
Hyperions, the latest conceptual proposal to come from the firm of ecological architect Vincent Call ebaut, is named after the tallest tree in the world, a sequoia in Northern California. The name is fitting, as the striking “garden towers” combine a sensitivity to the natural world with an architect’s eye for grandeur. The proposed site for…
Made with carefully articulated façades and thoughtful material transitions, these designs showcase emerging building trends in Paris’s historic legacy.
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has been preoccupied with some extraordinarily grand plans across the globe since the beginning of the year, but this week he has revealed a project on a more modest scale, revealing a series of renderings for the Serpentine Gallery’s annual pavilion. BIG has conceived an installation it calls “the unzipping of…
Corrugated sheets are composed of metal that is galvanized and cold-rolled to produce an instantly r ecognizable building material. This pattern is commonly used in agricultural or industrial buildings because of the high bending strength of the sheet in the perpendicular direction, as well as the low maintenance needed. Today, the benefits of corrugated sheets are…
Ideas require space. Produced through a lengthy process or a creative spark, ideation and innovation are intimately tied to our surrounding environment.
Emerging from progressive studios, public works and social-enterprise investments, integrated design has entered mainstream architecture. For no surer sign that this highly collaborative process has become a new best practice, look to the residential projects in which most of the industry works: architects of single- and multifamily buildings are assembling teams of partners and consultants…