Inspiration

The Vitra Design Museum (VDM) in Weil am Rhein, Germany, will celebrate African design and architect ure with an African theme for the next six months. The programming starts with the exhibition “Architecture of Independence – African Modernism,” which opened on February 20th and runs until May 31st, and “Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary…

Sydney is home to an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the waterfront: The huge natural harbo r of Australia’s most populous city is complemented by the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge, not to mention the building with the world’s most recognizable silhouette, Jørn Utzon’s Opera House. Developers in the city, though, are not content to…

Even though we’ve grown used to seeing Photoshopped images, this doesn’t mean that docto red photos have lost their ability to unsettle or provoke us as viewers. This is the impetus behind artist Olivier Ratsi‘s “Anarchitecture” series, where familiar buildings are edited into uncanny versions by manipulating colors, textures, and edges to make impossible-looking new skylines.…

The debate over what kind of environment is most conducive to productivity in the workplace has been raging in recent months — The Washington Post’s Lindsey Kaufman >caused quite a stir when she declared that Google’s adoption of the open-plan office might actually be detrimental to employees, while Kay Sargent argued otherwise, extolling the abolition…

FIGMENT, the summer-long art and design festival that pops up on Governors Island every summer, has selected not one but two pavilions to be built for its 2015 summer “City of Dreams” program. The two designs are well underway, but they need your help to make it across the finish line. They are both seeking…

“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” Pe rhaps Renzo Piano had a point: Architects are suckers for the drama of cantilevers, and the perpetual tension that comes with that perfect structural balancing act. As always, Many of this year’s A+Award Finalists have employed cantilevers to create defiant, dynamic architecture, counterbalancing the functional advantages of extra space on the upper stories with the formal theatre of an architectural overhang. Here are 5 of the best – don’t forget to vote for your favorite finalists over here!

Every little bit counts when it comes to caring for the environment. Reusing, recycling, and choosin g eco-friendly products all go a long way — at least when enough consumers take part. Larger entities, including the United States federal government, have to do their part, too, or else their bad habits will drown out the efforts…

The idea of Gesamtkunstwerk is alive and well and can be found at Klingelhöferstrasse 14 in Berlin, where the Bauhaus Archiv is currently hosting its final exhibition before it closes for renovation.

If architecture is like frozen music as Johann Wolfgang said, then perhaps Chicago-based power-poppe rs OK Go didn’t get the memo. The walls, floors, ceilings and furnishings in their latest video — a commercial for a sale at Chinese furniture store Red Star Macalline — are constantly on the move, melting and flowing in time with…