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Designing a facility for international border control can be a tricky proposition amounting to an ar chitectural tightrope walk. The imperative for almost every border crossing is to communicate contradictory messages of welcoming and surveillance, at once making desired border-crossers feel at ease while trying to make potentially threatening border-crossers feel watched and intimidated. In meeting…
The Woodhull Medical Center (1969–1978) by Kallman & McKinnell — designers of the oft-loathed Bo ston City Hall — and Kenzo Tange’s Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Center (1961–1966) are two geographically and typologically remote projects, but ones that emerged from the same architectural ethos: an unabashed structural expression of buildings as containers for social activities rather…
This video series is realized in collaboration with ‘Architectures’ — a series presented by the Arts and Culture Bureau — offering unique views into the concepts and forms of built landmarks. every week, we present one building, accompanied by a short video from their youtube channel. In 2010, the Rolex Learning Center was built near…
This article is the first in a series that that tells the story of how Source — Architizer’s new mar ketplace for building products — helps architects create brilliant buildings. HEAD THIS WAY For more information on the platform. When SHoP Architects unveiled its proposal for the Uber Headquarters — a gleaming “vertical city” set to…
THIs new video series is realized in collaboration with ‘architectures’ — a series presented by the arts and culture bureau — offering unique views into the concepts and forms of built landmarks. every week, we present one building, accompanied by a short video from their youtube channel. “Between the slopes of the black forest and…
Two Italian architects, Valeria Mercuri and Marco Merletti, recently won third place in eVolo’s 2016 Skyscraper Competition for their project ‘Data Tower.’ While much attention was given to the first-place winners, Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, for their horizontal skyscraper wrapping around the perimeter of a sunken Central Park, Mercuri and Merletti stepped away from…
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” That mantra — the memorable max im of famed British novelist C.S. Lewis — undoubtedly chimes with the philosophies of architect Matthias Hollwich. The German-American designer and author, cofounder of New York–based firm Hollwich Kushner (HWKN), has recently taken on one…
Atira Women’s Resource Society’s mission is clear: to provide resources to self-identifying women wh o have been affected by violence. One of these resources is, of course, housing, and Vancouver’s skyrocketing real estate market provides an extra hurdle to its already-challenging endeavor. The Society has been inventive in its proposals, however, and has become an important…
Updated April 4th, 2016. Amidst the cooing over beautiful architecture across social media platforms in recent months, there has been a bubbling undercurrent of tension — and it is all down to the humble treads and risers of domestic staircases. Facebook comments beneath stunning project interiors have revealed concerns amongst some readers about the safety…