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We were captivated by the three winners of eVolo’s annual skyscraper competition, but what made this year’s contest even more remarkable was the incredibly high standard of concepts and visualizations across the board: Even the honorable mentions list includes some truly jaw-dropping renders and outrageous ideas. Here, we take a look at five of our…
Public voting for the 2015 A+Awards is now open, which means that YOU have the power to select the v ery best architecture in the world. With the A+Awards, recognizing the best projects is no longer domain of a small group of judges — everyone gets a say in who will be crowned victorious in over…
During the decades following World War II, Americans experienced a drastic shift in both the domesti c and the professional landscape. In response, both US-born and émigré architects, designers, and patrons helped to disseminate the midcentury aesthetic and worldview to a broad American audience. Yesterday saw the opening of Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism at…
The more cynical amongst us have long suspected that the growing forest of supertall residential con dominiums in Midtown Manhattan is as much about big egos as it is about great architecture. Now, the marketing department in charge of selling the multi-million dollar apartments in SHoP Architects‘ slender skyscraper on West 57th have added fuel to…
Google is known for their playful April Fool’s Day pranks and hoaxes. Their first, MentalPlex, was an actual hoax. In 2000, when search engines were still in their formative stages, they tricked people into thinking about what they wanted to search for, and then delivered humorous error messages, like “Error 001: Weak or no signal…
Do you have an innovative concept for a hotel? This is your chance to shake up hospitality. The John Hardy Group, an international leader in hotel real estate development, is now calling for entries for its annual Radical Innovation competition. Since Radical was founded, more than $100,000 has been awarded to firms and creative thinkers…
Public voting for the 2015 A+Awards is now open, which means that YOU have the power to select the v ery best architecture in the world. With the A+Awards, recognizing the best projects is no longer domain of a small group of judges — everyone gets a say in who will be crowned victorious in over…
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 Michele de Lucchi — Founder and Principal of aMDL — who has two groundbreaking projects debuting later this…
eVolo’s annual skyscraper design contest has become a hotbed for some extraordinary and often contro versial twists on the high-rise typology over the years: We’ve seen everything from floating megacities to an immense agricultural prison levitating in the clouds. The winning designs for 2015 have just been announced, and they are just as diverse as you…