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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…
Thomas Edison’s light bulb is arguably the single most influential invention of the last several hun dred years. That doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement. Shanghai manufacturer Sengled has taken the bulb and brought it up to speed with our modern multi-tasking, energy-efficient sensibilities. The newly unveiled Sengled Snap, winner of the 2015 Consumer Electronics…
GPT+ Architecture Design won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture+Technology category with BIOTI C-TECH SKYSCRAPER CITY. This futuristic urban skyline features high-rise buidings that adapt to surrounding environmental conditions to create energy.