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In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly walks out into the 2015 Hill Valley, the camera panning t o show the city as he says incredulously, “the future.” He walks around, dumbfounded by the rapid changes his city has made. It is a world of flying cars, holographic media screens, and futuristic-looking architecture. Unfortunately…
In Canada’s Yukon territory, where temperatures can regularly dip as low as -58 °F, a tiny case-stud y house is a model of efficiency even in the harshest climate: Laird Herbert of Leaf House Small Space Design and Build recently completed the third iteration of his tiny house design. While the house only occupies a 97-square-foot…
Sky Factory won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture+Health Care category for Luminous SkyCeilin g. This innovative design feature brings nature into interior design and promotes health and relaxation.
As architectural practice continues to expand in scope, the Master in Architectural Management and D esignprogram at IE School of Architecture and Designhas set out to incorporate the seldom addressed business aspects of the AEC professions into their curriculum. This program looks to bridge the gap between advanced design and management skills, challenging the obsolete notion…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced another rate hike for commuters yesterday, with the cost of a single subway or bus ride increasing from $2.50 to $2.75 come March 22nd. So too will the cost of a monthly card rise from $112 to $116.50, and Metro North and LIRR fares will be going up as well.…
Something of an architectural force majeure is sweeping across Paris, and it’s just not a case of news media covering architecture but rather the opposite: Snøhetta have been chosen as architects for the new headquarters of the Le Monde newspaper in Paris. The Norwegian rising stars emerged victorious among the top-tier firms invited to submit…
DIOINNO ARCHITECTURE PLLC won the 2014 Jury Award for the Products+Living category for QUBE. This sl atted wooden box unfolds to become a sturdy dining table with seating for five.
Jim Kazanjian has been making insanely realistic-looking but obviously fake photo-collages for a whi le. We first checked in with Kazanjian’s monsters when they were dystopian Victorian mash-ups set to post-apocalyptic landscapes. Now, the Portland, Ore.-based artist — he works in commercial CGI by day — has moved onto something a bit more sinister. Images courtesy…
Photographer Iwan Baan travels the world, living out of a suitcase and hotel rooms exclusively, in o rder to document architectural marvels in far-flung locales like the middle of Africa and China. For an advocate of aerial vantage points, drones are often the only way to get up in the air and show the surroundings and…