Tips and tricks to help you specify the right building-products and design better buildings.
In this ongoing series, we aim to give you a travel guide to cities around the globe — with an archi tectural twist. These tours offer chances to experience great design away from the traditional tourist hotspots and an alternative angle on the world’s metropolises. After New York City, Los Angeles, Detroit and Havana, we go…
The first rule of redlining is — do it yourself!
“If a diagram is done right, it can engage the viewer as much as any perspective rendering.”
In this ongoing series, we aim to give you a travel guide to cities around the globe — with an archi tectural twist. These tours offer chances to experience great design away from the traditional tourist hotspots and an alternative angle on the world’s metropolises. After New York City, Los Angeles and Detroit, we head across…
Who said architecture students have to be architects?
These are spaces of invention, idea-testing and collaboration.
We take a lighthearted look at some of the most frequently overheard lies about architectural practi ce.
Updated by Paul Keskeys, June 30, 2016 New renderings for Tadao Ando’s debut project in New York Cit y include a vast, living green wall covering much of one façade, which will change in color throughout the year. Measuring some 55 feet high by 99 feet wide, the flowering elevation will constitute Manhattan’s largest residential green…
In recent years, the mainstream principles of urban planning have undergone a significant shift. Aft er decades of proselytizing by various special-interest groups, many urban planners seem to have begun embracing the notion of mixed-use, walkable development as a model fit for widespread adoption. The proliferation of this wisdom is a great leap forward in the…