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Most everyone is familiar with the standard university typologies — lecture halls, dorms, libraries, gyms, student centers, etc. — but how many campuses can boast a “contemplative center?” San Francisco-based Aidlin Darling Design has recently completed The Windhover Contemplative Center at Stanford University, a uniquely programmed building meant expressly as a spiritual retreat for the…
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 Guy Peterson, FAIA — Founder and Principal of Guy Peterson | Office for Architecture — whose forthcoming book…
Staircases are, by their very nature, one of the most visually striking elements in architecture — t hey are one of the few components of a building that can be highly functional yet also incredibly sculptural, ebbing and flowing to fit whatever space is granted to them. Via Core77 Core77 recently deemed this staircase in Portugal…
Calling all NYC architects! We’re looking for the next revolutionary, innovative scheme that w ill revitalize and make a big impact on the city — think High Line, +Pool, or Brooklyn Bridge Park — will it be yours? Architizer is once again teaming up with the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) to bring you…
The movie is a quietly compelling illustration of the interaction of the built environment with an i ncreasingly digital world of information.
For a slight boost in sustainability to its most iconic landmark, Paris recently outfitted the Eiffe l Tower with wind turbines — and they’re just gorgeous, according to Popular Science. The new wind turbines, via The Verge’s amazing photo essay At the end of February, the firm Urban Green Energy installed two vertical-axis wind turbines within…
Imagine the experience of entering a stubby, brutalist building with claustrophobically low ceilings and dim lighting. Then, envision a pair of 10-foot glass doors opening to a skylit atrium with scarcely a barrier between the ground and the sky. The biological need for humans to work, live, and play in large spaces alludes to our…
The oldest operating whiskey distillery in New York City also happens to be the smallest commercial distillery in the country: Founded less than five years ago, Colin Spoelman and David Haskell spent their nights and weekends in a 325-square-foot room in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, making whiskey in five 24-liter stainless steel stills. Over the course…
“Architecture is a borrower,” Eric Owen Moss said on Wednesday night, during a conversation with Fra nk Gehry at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (better known as SCI-Arc). “It gloms onto events and speculations in the arts and culture and science.” Moss raised a compelling point on the varied sources of architectural movements and nomenclatures.…