Architecture on the Market: A Desert Home and Studio Pursues Lofty Heights With a Daring Cantilever
The cantilevered desert home made waves back in 2006 when it was first built by the Phoenix-based pr actice.
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Smart Citizens Not Smart Cities: This Sensor Allows Anyone to Track and Share Urban Environmental Conditions
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. Urban…
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Modern Ruins: Peter Eisenman’s Abandoned “City of Culture” Crumbles Away
The €475.9 million project came to be regarded as a symbol of excess and vanity during strained econ omic times.
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MAD World: Ma Yansong on Competitions, Organic Cities and China’s “Weird Architecture”
The 5th annual A+Awards — the world’s largest awards program for architecture and products — is open for entries!Click here to find out how to submit your project. Architizer’s A+Awards, the world’s largest awards program for architecture and products, is all about innovation. Every pioneering project — whether it is conceived by a well-known international…
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The Art of Survival: Turenscape Creates Green Infrastructure Through Resilient Wetland Parks
Finding ecologically responsible yet “artful” solutions to the current crises of urbanization is the central concern of the landscape architect, founding principal of the Chinese studio Turenscape.
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Herman Miller Opens Its First Brick-and-Mortar Retail Store
Even the chill of a blustery November evening in New York City didn’t stop the local architecture an d design community from venturing out across Manhattan to 251 Park Avenue South. That’s because one of the industry’s long-beloved brands, Herman Miller, opened the doors to its flagship store at this address, where the company’s commercial showroom…
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The Architecture of Surveillance: Manhattan’s Brutalist Masterpiece Revealed as an NSA Hub
One of New York City’s most compelling pieces of Brutalist architecture — the "AT&T Long Lines Build ing" located at 33 Thomas Street — has been revealed to be one of the National Security Agency’s central spy hubs in the US.
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“We Design With Life”: Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE on Soft Cars, Garbage Towers and Mushroom Chairs
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. How…
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Rendering to Reality: Allied Works Architecture Evokes a Gathering of Acoustic Vessels for Its National Music Centre in Canada
Allied Works Architecture (AWA) has completed its most ambitious project — Studio Bell — the new hom e to Calgary’s National Music Centre of Canada. The 160,000-square-foot project is formed through the connection of nine interlocking towers, featuring a dramatically suspended bridge, which allows the building to straddle over a central road in Calgary. With a…
