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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…
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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. Ken Architekten won the 2015…
Guardian Industries Corp. will be bringing its newest digital tool to the AIA National Conference in Atlanta this month, showing how the glass manufacturer has made the glass selection easier and more efficient than ever. Founded in 1932, the Auburn Hills, Mich.-based manufacturer produces float and fabricated glass products including SunGuard® Advanced Architectural Glass, which…
The rise of the co-working space has been spurred by demand, but so, too, has the cost of renting a desk at these venues. For those looking for an alternative, Open Lobby is a network of affordable public co-working spaces in the underused, overlooked lobbies of office towers in Midtown East, idly marking the boundary between the public sidewalk and the private offices above despite their premium zip codes. Open Lobby activates these sites — the ideal site for this public-private partnership — as a productive public space. Open Lobby will manage the physical spaces, the urban policy mechanisms, and the financial structures that support it.
L: Visualization of 53W53 Tower by Jean Nouvel via Bloomberg; R: House for Essex, via Dezeen. Mile-H igh Mansions: If you have a few dollars to spare and appreciate a stunning panoramic view across Manhattan, perhaps you’ll consider purchasing the duplex penthouse at the summit of Jean Nouvel’s 53W53 tower above MoMA — a steal at…
New Yorkers generally know to avoid Times Square if possible, but we’ve got a pro tip for loca ls and visitors alike: if you happen to be in the neighborhood this week, you might just catch a glimpse of, say, Hasselt Courthouse or Rundeskogen, among the other architectural stunners. That’s right, Architizer is currently broadcasting the…
Each year since 2013, Architizer has partnered with Sunbrella to sponsor the Future of Shade Competi tion, an open call for projects and ideas that explore the possibilities of what fabric architecture can be. Now in its third year, the 2015 competition received 190 submissions from 36 countries including the US, Canada, India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Italy,…
Not many parts of the world have yet to be touched by the influential hand of Dame Zaha Hadid, but C entral America had been one of them … until now. Following her first foray into South America — the proposal for a spine-like condominium in Rio de Janeiro was revealed late last year — the…