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Architecture and especially historical monuments or statues can often become implicated into war and cultural cleansing. Unfortunately, that usually means simply wiping them off the face of the earth in the misguided attempt to do the same to whatever culture they represent. The terror group ISIS is of course not above some good old fashioned…
Did you know that pre-fab construction dates back as far as the pilgrims, who shipped a disassembled house from England to Cape Ann, Mass., so that the new settlers would have a well-constructed place to stay? Thanksgiving might have taken place in a pre-fab house that was assembled onsite. Today, the unhappy hipsters in Dwell…
About one year ago, a report surfaced that North Korea had successfully landed a man on the sun.  220;This just in: North Korea has landed a man on the Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Hung Il Gong started his journey at 3am this morning, traveling alone, to reach our nearest star, a journey that took him just 4…
“As a child, I was a James Bond film, Space: 1999 geek,” Napa Valley-based designer Richard Von Saal tells Architizer. Captivated by the glamour and “complex geometry of futuristic modernism,” of these movies, he developed a certain cinematic flair in his own interior design and fabrication practice, making it only fitting that the Napa Valley…
Just last month, we were speculating about how an Uber-style fleet of driverless cars could change t he make-up of cities. Now, the same questions may need to be applied not to our roads, but to the skies far above: Helicopter livery operator Gotham Air has launched an airborne taxi service, promising to transfer time-squeezed commuters…
Earlier this month, Fendi celebrated the opening of a new New York City location designed by fashion architect of choice, Peter Marino. The Italian luxury fashion house is relocating the flagship outpost from the Fifth Avenue location (also designed by Marino) to 598 Madison Avenue. Marino wanted sought to overhaul the space — previously occupied…
Living off the grid — independent of the municipal water supply, sewer, natural gas or electrical po wer grid — has long been a dream of survivalists and environmentalists. The autonomy of a self-sustaining house is attractive to them because it not only saves energy, but it also lessens dependence on the government. In the case…
What if the entire ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melted?
Anyone can stand on the sidewalk and take a picture of a bridge with their iPhone — search #architec ture on Instagram and you’ll get millions of results of varying quality. What separates a follow-worthy photographer from an amateur is his or her ability to make familiar scenes meaningful, elevating a snapshot into cultural commentary. Wolfgang…