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In anticipation of the upcoming deadline for the 2015 A+ Awards, we’re featuring facts you did n’t know about some of last year’s winners. These innovative designs don’t just happen overnight. Well, number six sort of did… Find out more about how these unique projects got our attention: 1. Mix Work and Play Supermass Studio was…
There are wacky Airbnbs and then there are wacky Airbnbs. This guy in Phoenix wants you to rent and stay in his TESLA Model S, which seems like a legit camping adventure. The car, according to the ad, “sleeps 2 in climate controlled comfort all night” — on a twin airbed that is 6’6″ by…
The prospect of owning a home designed by an iconic architect remains a fanciful dream for most of u s — but in New Jersey, that dream could be about to come true for one lucky buyer. Those Louis Kahn-worthy Nikes are long sold out by now, but now you can do one better: The ‘Clever…
A decade ago, when white LEDs began entering the architecture marketplace in force, early adoption c ame with misgivings. The new light source would drastically cut electricity consumption over many more hours of life — but the color temperature was cold, or brightness seemed insufficient. Like most disruptive technologies, LEDs promised to revolutionize the industry. Just…
ikon.5 Architects won the 2014 Jury Award for the Typology Art Galleries category with School of Art and Design at New York State College of Ceramics. The pavilion is a large ceramic structure made to hold art and light.
“Architecture may not necessarily cure personal unhappiness,” English architect Nick Elias tells Arc hitizer via email, “but it may provide the framework for it.” This is the guiding premise of PoohTown, Elias’s RIBA President’s Silver Medal-winning conceptual overhaul of Slough, a middling English town where industry rules — the likes of O2, Mars, Blackberry, Sara Lee,…
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The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture has announced that Aaron Betsky has been named dean of Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, an experimental architecture school with a main campus at Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Ariz., and a summer campus at Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisc. An influential writer, theorist, educator, and…
Dutch studio MVRDV have triumphed in a three-stage international competition to design a mixed-use s kyscraper in the Austrian capital of Vienna with a new twist on the conventions of high-rise design yet again… In order to satisfy the city’s strict planning regulations, the lower ten stories of the tower are pivoted around the building’s core…