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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…
The success of the High Line in New York has spawned a new generation of reclaimed-urban-infrastruct ure-parks. São Paulo, Brazil might be the latest city to find a patch of elevated greenery in the dense metropolitan fabric. The question is, do they reeeally want one? The answer is looking like a “yes,” given the current status…
Vitrocsa USA won the 2014 Jury Award for the Product+Access category and was the Popular Choice Awar d winner for the Product+Access category with Vitrocsa Sliding Glass Wall. Marcel Fontijn reveals how many pieces and parts it takes to assemble a simple sliding door.