Inspiration

One of the most practical new building products on display during ICFF, held at the Javits Center du ring the NYCxDesign festival, was a moveable wall system with the clever name of Tudelü. Designed and engineered in Brooklyn, Tudelü’s retractable roll-up walls create privacy or more space at the touch of a remote-controlled button. Intended for both residential and commercial projects, the material-layered wall comes in a variety of colors and materials, including felt, wood, faux leather, and two soundproofing options.

As in all great partnerships, the backstories of Eduardo Cadaval and Clara Solà-Morales overlap and intertwine in perfect harmony. Their journey from academia to practice has taken them thousands of miles over the years, but ultimately came full circle, culminating in the founding of Cadaval and Solà-Morales, based in the architects’ home countries of Mexico…

Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design won the 2015 A+Awards, Jury Choice, for the Office Interio rs Category with OFFICE > ENTROPY. For this office space, the architects rigidly applied a grid, constructed from plywood, to the interior space.

L: 2WTC by Bjarke Ingels Group; R: Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia, via Designboom. Up Grade: Bj arke Ingels has made headlines this week with the revelation that Silverstein Properties is moving forward with his design for 2 World Trade Center instead of a previous one by Norman Foster. The tower will rise alongside Skidmore Owings…

With last month’s bicoastal shows and NeoCon around the corner, we’re well into design-s how season at this point, and at least a few product trends have become … concrete. If you weren’t able to make it to ICFF last month, we’ve got a rundown of some of the most interesting new products from the show…

Set to open later this year, the Shanghai Tower by Gensler (2,073 ft) is currently the tallest build ing in China and second tallest in the world. Here, Xiaomei Lee, Co-Managing Director of Gensler Shanghai, shares the story of the centerpiece of the city’s Lujiazui District. From the outset, this project was meant to represent China’s…

Although tensile structures are certainly complex elements of our architectural vocabulary, they can be as simple as a tent, where poles and ropes pretension the membrane or fabric. The technical definition is a structure that carries only tension throughout the various elements without bending or compression, which makes tensile structures suited for roofs as an…

With 90+ categories and 300+ jurors, the Architizer A+Awards is the world’s definitive archite ctural awards program. In anticipation of the Awards Gala and Phaidon book launch on May 14, we are pleased to share the stories behind the winners of the 2015 Awards program — see all of them here. MHN Design Union won the…

The rapid rise of Bjarke Ingels Group has been reflected in recent months by a notable increase in t he scale of many projects on the firm’s drawing board. The Danish studio has a growing collection of large urban planning proposals to its name, and another is set to become a reality in the coming years,…