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Neri&Hu Design Research Office won the 2015 A+Awards, Jury Choice, for the Mixed Use Category with D esign Republic Design Commune. A design hub and flagship store in the heart of Shanghai, this multi-programmatic space — a gallery, event space, café, restaurant, and one-bedroom apartment — is situated in the historic police headquarters, dating back to the 1910s.
The number of outstanding cantilevered projects have proven to be a highlight of the A+Awards down t he years — from the MINI Brand Experience Center in China to stunning Casa Narigua in Mexico, architecture firms across the globe showed that their affinity for dramatic structural overhangs remains undiminished. This love is longstanding: from Frank Lloyd…
Florida Tech: Hot off the back of their big reveal for Uber’s HQ in San Francisco, SHoP Architects h ave announced another proposal for the world of technology, unveiling plans for an entire district in Miami for innovative businesses — their collaboration with West 8 has been dubbed “Florida’s Silicon Valley.” Monumental Madness: Numerous critics have…
Organic and undulating in nature, wood is rarely perfectly linear or a platonic solid. Nevertheless, humans have long adopted the abundant raw material to serve their own ends, and, nowadays, designers continue to explore its possibilities. From organic and largely untouched, to repurposed to the manufactured, geometric, and parametric, these designs start with raw timber…
With the advent of mobile and ever-increasing reach of data networks, the very notion of the cloud h as taken on a new meaning in contemporary culture. The omnipresent yet radically decentralized concept may seem at odds with buildings, but rest assured the word perfectly captures the philosophy of New York City-based Clouds Architecture Office. Established…
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 take a closer look at some of the winners of the 2015 Awards program — see all of them here. DinellJohansson won…
Calling all American architects and interior designers! Hansgrohe+Axor have begun their nationwide s earch for the second annual Das Design competition. Whether it’s a five-star luxury suite in NYC or a midcentury renovation in California, the Black Forest-based company is searching for recent projects that have incorporated Hansgrohe and Axor products in a novel way. As…
It came down to the wire last Friday night as the full-house audience at St. Patrick’s Old Cat hedral watched the real-time results of the text-to-vote poll on the big screen, but one team emerged victorious: by the time MC Ilya Marritz called it, the Underline prevailed over the East River Skyway by a single vote.…
The New York City-based firm Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects is known for its international scope, wi th several hundred projects throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Now it’s heading to Dodoma, Tanzania, with ambitious plans not just for the central African country’s people, but for its bees as well. Earlier this…