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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced another rate hike for commuters yesterday, with the cost of a single subway or bus ride increasing from $2.50 to $2.75 come March 22nd. So too will the cost of a monthly card rise from $112 to $116.50, and Metro North and LIRR fares will be going up as well.…
Something of an architectural force majeure is sweeping across Paris, and it’s just not a case of news media covering architecture but rather the opposite: Snøhetta have been chosen as architects for the new headquarters of the Le Monde newspaper in Paris. The Norwegian rising stars emerged victorious among the top-tier firms invited to submit…
DIOINNO ARCHITECTURE PLLC won the 2014 Jury Award for the Products+Living category for QUBE. This sl atted wooden box unfolds to become a sturdy dining table with seating for five.
Jim Kazanjian has been making insanely realistic-looking but obviously fake photo-collages for a whi le. We first checked in with Kazanjian’s monsters when they were dystopian Victorian mash-ups set to post-apocalyptic landscapes. Now, the Portland, Ore.-based artist — he works in commercial CGI by day — has moved onto something a bit more sinister. Images courtesy…
Photographer Iwan Baan travels the world, living out of a suitcase and hotel rooms exclusively, in o rder to document architectural marvels in far-flung locales like the middle of Africa and China. For an advocate of aerial vantage points, drones are often the only way to get up in the air and show the surroundings and…
Studio Mode was the 2014 Popular Choice winner for the Typology Bars & Nightclubs category with NIGH T FLIGHT. This live-music club is designed to make visitors feel like they are dancing and dining under a glittering sky full of stars.
The Architects’ Journal recently published an enigmatic set of renderings, displaying what architect Richard Weston describes as a new genre of high-rise building: the “contextual tower.” The angular skyscraper — officially named after its address, 1 Undershaft — is intended to correlate closely with its surroundings, its form dictated by a careful analysis of adjacent…
Anagrama won the 2014 Jury Award for the Typology Libraries category and was the 2014 Popular Choice winner in the same category with Niños Conarte. This children's library and cultural center fosters a love of learning through its geometric and colorful design.
Images courtesy NL Architects. When Chinese president Xi Jinping called for the end of all of the &# 8220;weird architecture” in China, Dutch designers NL Architects must not have gotten the memo. Their design for a chain of hotels is one of the weirdest yet, in a very good way. Each one is shaped — in…