Inspiration

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.

Allsteel, a manufacturer of cutting-edge workplace environments, crafts products that were unheard o f just a decade ago. A few examples: Hedge, an angled partition wall with built-in shelf specifically designed for leaning on; Rise, a modular lounge made of tiered, rectangular seats; and Mind-Share, seating with a super-high backrest that doubles as a screen. All…

Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Bob Borson, AIA, LEED, AP — principal of Malone Maxwell Borson Architects — who experiences architecture with an…

Remember that famous Will-Ferrell-as-Harry-Caray line, “We all know that the moon is not made of green cheese. But what it were made of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it then? I know I would.” In the spirit of that rhetorical quip, what if the White House was made of Jell-O? Would you eat it?…

As a respite from all the in-your-face robotics and high-tech fanfare going on at the Consumer Elect ronics Show, Architizer found one moment of Zen playing around with the ambient lighting options of Philips Hue Tap. The puck-like remote control syncs to Philips’ smart, color-changing Hue lights via ZigBee, a lower-energy, appliance-specific alternative to wi-fi that…

It’s official: The United States Olympic Committee has selected Boston for its bid for the Summer Ol ympics in 2024. In a hard-fought competition against Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C., Beantwon came out on top and will now begin its campaign to host the summer games in nine years’ time. The USA was the…

Although ubiquitous email is only two decades old and the iPhone launched a mere seven years ago, mo bile working has already rewritten the playbook of office design. In fact, the transformation is so complete that its signatures—unassigned seating, bench tables, floor plans favoring chance interactions—already seem like old hat. Do the 21st-century offices that dazzle…