Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Cumulus Studio created beautiful spaces within the two listed buildings of the Pumphouse Point and p rovided environments that capitalize not only on the gorgeous natural surroundings of the reserve, but also manage to convey a sense of both old and new.
Foamspace is the winning project of the 2015 Street Architecture Prize Competition hosted by Storefr ont for Art and Architecture and the New Museum as part of the biennial IDEAS CITY festival. The brainchild of SecondMedia, this mobile work of architecture and digital platform of financial tools will allow members to propose and vote on the…
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…
New Yorkers, clear your schedules for this weekend because there’s only one place you need to be for the next three days: the Lower East Side, for the third biennial IDEAS CITY Festival. For three days, starting tomorrow, the Bowery will be transformed, literally and figuratively, into the epicenter of arts and culture, offering something…
L: SANAA’s Proposal for the Art Gallery of New South Wales © Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, v ia Designboom; R: Detail of Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room, via Designboom Wizards of Oz: Japanese modernists SANAA have been selected to design a major extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Their typically…
It’s proving to be an incredibly fruitful spring for Renzo Piano Building Workshop: no sooner had th e firm enjoyed the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the shimmering Intesa Sanpaolo Bank in Turin, they were expected across the Atlantic for another major inauguration. An industrial powerhouse for art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan is easily…
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…
OMA’s brand of provocative, program-driven design made a bold mark on their home territory last year as the enormous De Rotterdam complex rose to mixed reviews on the waterfront of Europe’s largest port. The building polarized opinions across the board but has achieved critical acclaim from some of the most influential quarters, garnering nominations for…
Marble has long been a staple of art and architecture alike, and its popularity has scarcely waned d espite the availability of alternatives and approximations. David Chipperfield, for one, is known for his masterful use of the material, which is at once luxurious and understated, not to mention classical and beautiful. Meanwhile the Taj Mahal is…