Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
One of the most iconic architectural typologies in history is set to be resurrected in Cairo! Four a nd half millennia after the Pyramids of Giza were completed on the outskirts of the city, the Ministry of Housing has unveiled a proposal for a tower, Zayed Crystal Spark, to anchor the planned development of Sheikh Zayed…
In the early 1980s, Bonnie Littman was working at Chemical Bank, as her sister Sandy was launching a new decorating lighting company. To steward that brand’s meteoric growth, Bonnie became president of the American Glass Lite Company in 1983. “Even then I knew was an entrepreneur,” she recalls, and ultimately that flair led Bonnie and…
Have you ever been lost in IKEA? There are new unofficial regroup locations that are perfect for “re charging.” Starting in April, you will be able to charge your phone with new IKEA furniture. And, if already have an apartment full of IKEA furniture, for $33 you can upgrade existing furniture with an add-on kit. Images…
Imagine if you could take Photoshop out into the streets and use it to change the world around you. Shrub, Linked by Air’s drawing app for iOS, lets you do precisely that, or at least part of that. The city (or landscape) becomes the material for a clone-stamp-like brush that grabs your surroundings and lets…
Welcome to the future! The Googleplex is coming, and it’s exactly how you imagined it: a bustling me tropolis full of luscious parks, cyber cafés, public art, cycle paths and yoga classes … all encased in gargantuan glazed bubbles, naturally. When Google’s Vice President of Real Estate David Radcliffe spoke of his company’s search for the…
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…