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Death by building. Some architects might think that is the ideal way to go. Buildings can kill peopl e any number of ways, including collapses, falls from treacherous heights – one can even be eaten alive by a mechanical system. Architecture can also kill you when you are on the street, if its cladding starts to…
It is no coincidence that the world's earliest surviving camera photograph captured building roofs a s seen from Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's window at Le Gras in 1822. This rudimentary photographic technique required a static subject whose anatomy could be distilled into a few essential gestures.
As in the past several years, 2014 saw activists take to the streets in major protests around the wo rld. Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement demanded open elections without new regulation by China, while Ferguson became the center of racially-charged demonstrations against police brutality. From New York to Venezuela to Palestine and Turkey, uprisings addressed serious issues.…
Beijing’s got its Big Shorts (CCTV Tower, OMA, 2012), London’s got its Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe, Norm an Foster, 2003), and al-Wakrah’s got various euphemisms for the female anatomy that just aren’t fit to put in writing (al-Wakrah Stadium, Zaha Hadid, 2018). San Francisco, how ’bout you? Last month may have been the best one…
In case you somehow failed to notice, your fridge’s crisper drawer is a stroke of genius, a compartm ent that provides the optimal humidity and temperature settings to keep your organic Tuscan kale stalks as crisp as can be while the milk and eggs chill out on their own on other shelves. But don’t your milk…
Samsung is on a mission towards a smarter home, as Architizer saw Monday during the brand’s Consumer Electronics Show presentation. These are the four top gadgets we’d like to live with. Super Surround Sound Samsung’s Audiolab has developed an “omnidirectional sound experience” for our modern multi-tasking world with the egg-shaped WAM7500 and WAM6500. “Unlike traditional…
Let the record show that December 2014 may well mark a turning point for Norwegian architects Snøhet ta. They have received good news at all stages of the design process, spread across three sizable projects around the world. Vaven. Image courtesy Snohetta The most talented Scandinavian firm going right now, Snøhetta has been working backwards a…
Did Santa happen to overlook the Lego-shaped flash drive you had on your wishlist this year? Tell hi m he can make it up to you by swinging by a Danish post office and picking up the nation’s new Lego-themed postage stamps (which are the currency for mail, which is kind of like email, except printed…
Speaking of Airbnb, the startup is also a prime example of the so-called “sharing” econo my’s nebulous legal status when it comes to taxes, regulations, and building codes. But even as the company faces controversy (most recently in Paris), cities like Portland, Ore., have welcomed Airbnb’s business model, going so far as to change their laws…