Tadao Ando: “Creation Is Fighting … Designing Architecture Is a Battle”
"Creation is fighting … you have to go forward, always one step ahead."
Inspiration: Stories
In-depth case studies on amazing architecture and the building-products that helped make it a reality.
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Transforming Work Environments Into Real Communities: Clive Wilkinson Discusses the Publicis Headquarters in New York
There is no doubt that new technologies are transforming the way we work. As autonomous tools and pl atforms continue to become more portable, powerful and connective, offices are decentralizing, the personal and professional realms are becoming more unified. For those designers charged with fabricating the office for this accelerated and fluid world, this task is…
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Hedonistic Sustainability: Bjarke Ingels Discusses Designing a New Vernacular in the Face of Climate Change
This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today. “In…
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To the Bath Cave: A Thermal Bath Gets a Modern Translucent-Concrete Grotto
In the German city of Bad Staffelstein, a manmade “cave” of sorts beckons leisure-seekers to a therm al bath fed by Bavaria’s hottest and most powerful saltwater spring. Obermaintherme is a 15,000-square-meter (161,500-square-foot) bath hall whose pool previously boasted a natural-stone cave feature with artificial palms for decades. But in recent years, the saltwater pool and…
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Workplace Spotlight: A Peek Inside the 3M Design Center
From introducing the now-ubiquitous Post-it Note to perfecting adhesives and glass films, 3M is a br and synonymous with scientific ingenuity. But science is only one part of the equation for developing successful everyday products. That’s where the company’s design team comes into the picture — and why the company set out to create the 3M…
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Watch the Making of Fuksas’ Amorphous Floating Cloud for the New Rome Convention Center
The Italian firm expresses a commitment to pursuing the boundaries of the structural and material po ssibilities of architecture, often stretching a building’s form to just shy of its breaking point.
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Dance With Me! Take a Feather-Light Tour Through Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton
Panning the dancer’s long strides as he approaches the monumental museum, Andrew Margeston’s camera offers glimpses of Frank Gehry’s sail-like structure, splashed with color from Daniel Buren’s “Observatory of Light” installation.
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Brilliant Beirut, Through the Eyes of an Ingenious Instagram Photographer
Serge Najjar’s home city is one of his greatest sources of inspiration, and he seeks to capture its diverse architectural fabric via this series of striking abstract photographs.
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Revealed: The Underground Secrets of the Buildings We Thought We Knew
From burial sites and asylum tunnels to Cold War bunkers, you wouldn’t believe some of the secrets t hat go on behind closed doors of the architecture we thought we knew. What famous buildings are hiding something from us?
