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Concrete is the humblest of materials, a hardwearing blend of gravel, sand, cement, and water that r emains associated with driveways and basements. But in the right hands, the utilitarian mixture can be elevated to high design. Take the work of architect John Pawson, for example. His minimalist concrete interiors in the Hotel Puerta America in…

Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Chad Oppenheim, FAIA, the Founder, Principal, and Lead Designer of Oppenheim Architecture + Design LLP, with Offices in…

In a recent interview with the Japan Times, Japanese architect Jun Igarashi cites a specific example of traditional Japanese interiors, the engawa, as spaces between being outdoors and indoors. Traditionally in old-style Japanese buildings, this engawa manifested as a seating area that acted as a buffer between the garden and the interior. The engawa plays…

L: SHoP’s Uber HQ, via Curbed; R: Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site, via Archdaily . Road to Riches: Ride-sharing platform Uber will be moving into an über-cool new headquarters in a couple of years’ time thanks to SHoP Architects. The New York-based studio unveiled brand-new renderings of the office complex in San Francisco where 3,000…

MAS and Architizer have teamed up once again to bring you Pitching the City 2015, a signature anchor ing event of the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival. Offering a platform for fresh urban ideas, five innovative projects, diverse in scope and scale, will be pitched to both an esteemed panel of experts, who will offer advice…

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. ORE Design won the 2015…

Architects: Showcase your next project through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newslett er. After yet another apocalyptic winter in much of the Northern hemisphere, things are finally heating up for summer — and what better way to cool off than with a dip in your local swimming hole? Right on cue, Rotterdam-based Ooze Architects…

Rita Catinella Orrell was previously products editor at Architectural Record and the founding editor of Snap, a quarterly building products magazine. she launched DesignyThings.com, a curated list of gifts, gadgets, and gear for consumers, in 2011 and Architects-Toybox.com, a resource for architects and designers looking for the latest building products, in 2013. This post originally…