Tips and tricks to help you specify the right building-products and design better buildings.
Some things just aren’t meant to be. The tumultuous love affair between Manchester City Council and minimalism appears over, and the fallout has plunged architectural purists into a period of urgent introspection. This critical moment is signified not by the construction of a building, but by its unceremonious removal: Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s only structure…
There is a certain irony in NBC calling creative majors useless when its own media platform is undou btedly brought to life by people with degrees in those very subjects.
Like plants to the sun, most of us possess the innate desire to bask in — or just have access to — n urturing natural light. But in the deepest of building cores or lowest of subterranean floors, true openings or daylight harvesters might not be feasible or affordable. So architects and interior designers have found ways to simulate daylight, whether through faux skylights, cove lighting or strategic material and color palettes.
Architecture can be a lonely pursuit — but also the greatest thing you'll ever do.
Rendering artist Rafal Barnas approaches each project individually.
Peter Eerlings is the creator of Archisnapper, an intelligent site management app that helps archite cts create field reports with incredible efficiency — read more here. He also hosts a series of informative articles about technology and business for architects on the Archisnapper Blog, a selection of which we are glad to present on Architizer. If…
In 1962, Boston was in trouble. Residents, manufacturers, and businesses were fleeing the city, leav ing behind acres of empty lots and boarded-up buildings. Residents needed a “new Boston,” and that year the city launched a rare open design competition in search of a new city hall that would symbolize—and help achieve—this rebirth. The two-stage, anonymous competition drew 256 entries, but in the end, the jury unanimously chose a bold, cutting-edge, and controversial design that was the work of “three young architects, two of them foreigners.” This concrete, Brutalist structure would become, David Dillon wrote, “one of the most remarkable debuts in American architectural history” and “arguably the great building of twentieth-century Boston,” according to Douglass Shand-Tucci’s definitive history, Built in Boston.
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When specifying stairs or railings, be sure to consider the dimensions of the installation space, an d the form, color and material you envision for the steps, handrails, balustrades or ramps.