Inspiration

Terreform ONE won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture+Communication category with Bio City Worl d Map of 11 Billion.

After my hour-long commute with luggage via the L and A subway lines, I find myself on the AirTrain shuttle, making sure I don’t miss my stop. I know once I find it, I will have a nice little jaunt via elevated tram across a highway junction and a couple of odd access roads. Up…

Who are the Architizer A+Awards jurors, you ask? Well, members of the esteemed panel comes from all walks of life, including architects, curators, photographers, developers… and even one LEGO-Certified Professional. That’s right, A+Juror Adam Reed Tucker has the LEGO equivalent of LEED certification, but for building intricate, accurate scale models of iconic architecture out of…

What is the difference between a representational drawing, such as a rendering, and an interpretatio n of a built project by an illustrator? Buildings are drawn for several reasons, but the rendering never seems to capture the serene feeling of an illustration. Perhaps Isozaki’s screenprints did. Why did that trend fade away? Illustrator Thomas Danthony has…

These shoe designs wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery.

ALA Architects won the 2014 Jury Award for the Theaters & Performing Arts Centers category with Kild en.

Here in New York City, architecture might as well be sausages. Not in the sense of London’s so -called “Gherkin” or “Cheesgrater,” but in the metaphorical sense that all kinds of building projects are scrapped or altered by the intense sausage-making process that is NYC planning. Stakeholders — from businesses and neighborhood coalitions to politicians and…

Every winter, the small Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi builds an Icehotel. Almost 50,000 people will visit each season, and artists from around the world come to build sculptural, light-based or even typographic installations for themed rooms. This year is the 25th edition of the iconic frozen palace, which uses almost 1,000 tons of frozen water…

Scott & Scott Architects won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture +Self Initiated Projects categ ory with Alpine Cabin.