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IMAESTRI, as company founder and CEO Paolo Timoni describes it, is a “marketing and distribution pla tform for small leading-edge design companies.” The year-old business rigorously vets little-known Italian manufacturers and, if they pass muster, makes those producers accessible to designers and consumers via its members-only website — a hybrid destination in which e-commerce meets art…
The parking garage is a routinely overlooked architectural typology: a necessary structure, but rare ly one that garners much attention. Cook Children’s Health Care System — a Forth Worth, Texas, pediatric hospital listed by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation’s best — thought differently, tapping the potential of the ancillary piece of…
All you need to know from the A+Awards Ceremony!
A collection of law enforcement facilities from around the world.
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…
As the anchor event of NYCxDesign and North America’s largest showcase of global design, ICFF is just a week and a half away. Now in its 27th year, the show promises to be bigger and better than ever, a design destination for not only New York-based architects and designers but exhibitors and attendees from the…
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 today, 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. It’s not…
In most contexts, a cage represents imprisonment or an otherwise undesirable restriction of one̵ 7;s freedom. However, within the realm of architectural design, cages themselves can be freed from the negative connotation of containment: well-designed instances can dramatically enhance the structure or space they contain, framing views, creating visual dynamism, and filtering light to fantastic effect…
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. EHDD won the 2015 A+Awards,…