Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Today sees the completion of Richard Meier‘s first residential project in Japan, one of the pa ir that make up the Harumi Residential Towers in Tokyo’s Harumi Chuo-ku City. Named after their site — one of the artificial islands in Tokyo Bay, a stone’s throw from the mainland — the waterfront condominiums are adjacent to the…
This past February, Generator Hostels opened a new location in Parisnear the Gare du Nord train stat ion. The string of hostel locations in Europe are all designed in the fashion of repurposing the existing architecture. As the story goes, the Paris location was once a pair of ramshackle 1980s insurance office buildings before it was…
Looking to brighten up your lighting scheme? Our product catalog is a one-stop shop for all variety of lighting options — from lifelike virtual skylights to sculptural floor lamps made from reclaimed wood. We’ve picked only a handful of our favorites from the database of thousands of products, which are also searchable by projects that…
As the baby boomers grow older, they increasingly need places to do so with grace. Sometimes this is a design solution that converts a home so the elderly can “age-in-place,” but often it means relocating to an assisted-living facility or nursing home. This expanding architectural field is open to many design innovations, from technologies and…
What can music teach us about architecture? When it comes to the storied history of modernist design in Southern California, Gabriel Kahane can give a musical lesson or two in this historic building genre. Released last year, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s latest album “The Ambassador” features ten tracks about ten street addresses in his birthplace of…
The intense heat, different levels of local construction knowledge and the availability of materials all factor into designs.
When Antoine Roset accepted his father Pierre’s offer to join Ligne Roset in 2006, the French furnit ure manufacturer entered its fifth generation. The younger executive’s family loyalty is not limited to the people who share his surname. “We have more than 900 employees working for the company, and one of the most important things for…
Due to quirk of the 2015 calendar, this year sees the unusual occurrence of Easter overlapping with Passover. For those of you who are celebrating the freedom meal of Passover at home, we have gathered a collection of synagogues that express more chutzpah in channeling an emotional story than your average architecture. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregationby…
In an age of automated everything, the word “smart” usually denotes a wifi or bluetooth connection, or some remote control via app. While Yves Béhar’s August Smart Lock definitely fits that bill, Architizer still applies the word “smart” to design that is based simply on good ideas. Thanks to new technologies, these new ideas can become real products that are more useful and efficient than previously possible, from the convenience of self-cleaning ceramic façades to the wonders of a virtual skylight that can exist underground. Check out these six high-tech 2015 A+Award Products finalists that have used technology to make major breakthroughs in product design that make us wonder why no one had ever thought of them sooner.