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Shopping centers have long been a source of conflict and contradiction for architects. Successful ma lls are celebratory cathedrals of consumerism that, for all their vitality, can suck the lifeblood out of the surrounding cityscape and transform high streets into ghost towns. The functional motivation of malls is at once glamorous and gluttonous, often necessitating aesthetics…
As of today, a third state legalized marijuana. Say goodbye to not-so-discretely blacked-out windows . As the tide turns toward legalization, architects are increasingly tasked with creating well-designed dispensaries in Colorado, Washington, and now Alaska. We think this trend will continue as voters in Washington D.C. and Oregon have also approved legalization, and there are advocates…
Bjarke’s been busy lately — not just with edifying and exhibiting but also his day job as, you know, an architect. The Danish architect’s firm has unleashed a veritable blizzard of new projects this winter, with the scale and program of each varying significantly. Following on from the recent groundbreaking of their twisting TELUS Sky…
For the third year running, Architizer is excited to partner with Sunbrella for the Future of Shade Competition to design beautiful spaces using fabric. With the growing interest and increasingly diverse range of entries in the past two editions of the annual competition, this year sees its expansion to three distinct categories — Humanitarian, Wellness…
Like so many gems of Los Angeles architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is set on a hill just above a generic shopping center. Approaching the entry to the Barnsdall Art Park, its 36-acre site, from the street, it’s hard to imagine that such an immersive, dramatic experience of modernism is in a park just…
After being freshly appointed with the Golden Lion award at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale , South Korea has become one of the architecture scenes to keep an eye on. The politically ambitious project Crow’s Eye View, presented at the Korean Pavilion in Venice, aimed to ”demonstrate the potential of an unified Korea by bringing together…
In 2011, Foster + Partner’s Spaceport America opened in the New Mexican desert with some wild fanfar e: Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson propelled down the side of the building, champagne in hand, rockets soaring in the air, to christen the $220-million launchpad of the world’s first civilian spaceflight. Four years down the line and nary…
If you are a fan of architecture, digital design, typography, and GIFs — the undisputed darlings of online artistry — then you are in for a real treat. Creative firm Deepblue Networks recently collaborated with illustrator Florian Schommer on a marketing campaign for their website, transforming their logo into gigantic letter-shaped buildings — crisp axons…
There’s a popular fixation on waterfront architecture lately. A plus-shaped pool installed in the mi dst of New York’s East River, along with an artificial wave pool in Melbourne’s Victoria Harbour, and other amusement park projects like it have city-dwellers raving about the wonders of civic architecture like never before. Seaside construction, sadly, isn’t all about…