Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Shiro Kuramata made some of the most intriguing Post-modern furniture designs, with a narrative and visual clarity that defines the era even as it transcends the mid-century moment. His work questions the rigidity of Modernism without falling into direct uncontrolled kitsch. A exhibition at Wright Auction House in New York titled Shiro Kuramata and Hiroshi…
The history of the rugged landscape of Far West Texas is inscribed in its passageways. The largest c ity, El Paso, gets its name from the historic Spanish mission, El Paso del Norte. It was the point marking passage from South to North, while the Rio Grande River cuts up from there through the mountains, marking…
Come May of this year, the largest and most iconic billboard in New York City’s Times Square will ta ke a break from advertising soda and fast-fashion brands in order to promote great architecture! That’s right — a giant billboard at the “crossroads of the world” will be dedicated to celebrating the 2015 Architizer A+Award winners.…
Death by building. Some architects might think that is the ideal way to go. Buildings can kill peopl e any number of ways, including collapses, falls from treacherous heights – one can even be eaten alive by a mechanical system. Architecture can also kill you when you are on the street, if its cladding starts to…
It is no coincidence that the world's earliest surviving camera photograph captured building roofs a s seen from Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's window at Le Gras in 1822. This rudimentary photographic technique required a static subject whose anatomy could be distilled into a few essential gestures.
As in the past several years, 2014 saw activists take to the streets in major protests around the wo rld. Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement demanded open elections without new regulation by China, while Ferguson became the center of racially-charged demonstrations against police brutality. From New York to Venezuela to Palestine and Turkey, uprisings addressed serious issues.…
Beijing’s got its Big Shorts (CCTV Tower, OMA, 2012), London’s got its Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe, Norm an Foster, 2003), and al-Wakrah’s got various euphemisms for the female anatomy that just aren’t fit to put in writing (al-Wakrah Stadium, Zaha Hadid, 2018). San Francisco, how ’bout you? Last month may have been the best one…
In case you somehow failed to notice, your fridge’s crisper drawer is a stroke of genius, a compartm ent that provides the optimal humidity and temperature settings to keep your organic Tuscan kale stalks as crisp as can be while the milk and eggs chill out on their own on other shelves. But don’t your milk…
Samsung is on a mission towards a smarter home, as Architizer saw Monday during the brand’s Consumer Electronics Show presentation. These are the four top gadgets we’d like to live with. Super Surround Sound Samsung’s Audiolab has developed an “omnidirectional sound experience” for our modern multi-tasking world with the egg-shaped WAM7500 and WAM6500. “Unlike traditional…