Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
This might just be the best month of the year — it’s the first day of spring (despite the weat her), March Madness is starting, and the A+Awards public voting is live. And who could forget Spring Break? Get out your towels and dust off your sandals, because we are here to show you the best…
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…
A project to convert abandoned rail tracks in the heart of The City of Brotherly love gets 60% funde d.
The Future of Shade Competition is now open, and with the introduction of three categories for the t hird edition, we’re excited about the opportunity to explore each category in more detail. We've previously looked at inspiration for the Humanitarian category; now we bring you a closer look at the Wellness Garden category.
Each year, a number A+Award Finalists stand out for their innovative contemporary applications of tr aditional materials, and this year, several projects have utilized timber in extraordinary and inventive ways. Here are five projects that have plied wood into inspiring places to live, work, worship, and play: take the tour and then make sure to jump over here and cast your votes!
Thanks to its density, New York City is the locus of some of the most extreme disparities of the hou sing crisis, with super-tall luxury condos inflating the entire city’s housing prices. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to change that by adding 200,000 new units of affordable housing, but activists say that he is moving too…
Robert Moses can confirm that elevated highways in urban areas act as a virtual DMZ, dividing sectio ns of a city and creating strong boundaries between neighborhoods — often along socio-economic lines. In the middle of the 20th century, car-friendly cities were seen as futuristic, economically healthy cities, even if roads made them ugly, dirty, noisy,…
The partially computer-generated concept allows the tower to reflect light where it casts a shadow.
When we received news earlier this year that Google Earth Pro is now free to download, we rejoiced — the digital world has become our oyster, with mind-boggling levels of geographic and demographic statistics at our fingertips. In fact, we have access to such an amount of data that the ocean of information can be…