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“Architecture may not necessarily cure personal unhappiness,” English architect Nick Elias tells Arc hitizer via email, “but it may provide the framework for it.” This is the guiding premise of PoohTown, Elias’s RIBA President’s Silver Medal-winning conceptual overhaul of Slough, a middling English town where industry rules — the likes of O2, Mars, Blackberry, Sara Lee,…
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The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture has announced that Aaron Betsky has been named dean of Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, an experimental architecture school with a main campus at Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Ariz., and a summer campus at Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisc. An influential writer, theorist, educator, and…
Dutch studio MVRDV have triumphed in a three-stage international competition to design a mixed-use s kyscraper in the Austrian capital of Vienna with a new twist on the conventions of high-rise design yet again… In order to satisfy the city’s strict planning regulations, the lower ten stories of the tower are pivoted around the building’s core…
Thomas Edison’s light bulb is arguably the single most influential invention of the last several hun dred years. That doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement. Shanghai manufacturer Sengled has taken the bulb and brought it up to speed with our modern multi-tasking, energy-efficient sensibilities. The newly unveiled Sengled Snap, winner of the 2015 Consumer Electronics…
GPT+ Architecture Design won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture+Technology category with BIOTI C-TECH SKYSCRAPER CITY. This futuristic urban skyline features high-rise buidings that adapt to surrounding environmental conditions to create energy.
Coworking offices just had a very good month. New Jersey recently marked $731,000 in state funds for the improvement and growth of shared workspaces. WeWork, a coworking office operator, just raised $335 million in investment funds and announced its first office in Austin, a city already already home to 15 independently owned coworking spaces.
Ever wonder what it takes to become the next great architect? Sure, you can always go with the tried -and-true strategy of attending a top grad school, interning with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and going through the wringer of getting licensed… but you can also forge a less predictable path to becoming an architect. In…
After dabbling in the interiors of New York’s Balenciaga flagship and a creating few small home acce ssories, fashion designer, icon, and darling Alexander Wang has officially made the big crossover into the world of industrial design. Italian furniture empire Poltrona Frau just launched a new Wang-designed collection that evokes the monochrome glam-banality of his eponymous…