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Architects: Showcase your next project through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newslett er. Of all superheroes, Batman is the one that’s most synonymous with the city he serves. Unlike Superman or Spider-Man, who had their powers thrust upon them, Batman took up the cape totally of his own volition, after deciding that Gotham City’s…
Suburbia, the scourge of contemporary urban planners everywhere, is about to be turned on its prover bial head thanks to avant-garde firm MVRDV. The Dutch firm is partnering with housing developers Traumhaus to transform a former US Army barracks in Mannheim, Germany, and it has taken the opportunity to carry out a rigorous reexamination of our…
Assemble’s 18-strong collective of activists-cum-architects reminds us that the disciplinary rigidit y of architecture is a construct existing solely in the minds of architects.
In the 1910s, Eritrea — a small East African country bordering with Sudan, Ethiopia and the Red Sea — stood as the industrial center for the administrative territory of Italian East Africa. Powered by Italian Fascists who challenged architect Odoardo Cavagnari to design a “Little Rome,” the Eritrean capital Asmara became a space of experimentation…
Architects gravitate towards those with whom they can share their love for certain coffee blends, po st-structuralist thoughts, and words like "bifurcation" and "juxtaposition".
When the Romanian Cultural Institute offered British photographer Richard Seymour a grant to photogr aph the country’s capital, Bucharest, he first turned his lens to the countryside, believing it to be an important step to understanding the character of the city itself. In the midst of his research, Seymour dove 367 feet underground to uncover Salina…
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 our opening guide to New York City, we explore another…
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, global firm Gensler asked its team of talented architects, u rban planners and researchers for their personal insights and opinions on how design innovation can create more livable cities. The resulting articles feature on the firm’s dedicated blog at gensleron.com. A recent feature by Peter Weingarten— a native New Yorker…
While it is entirely possible for architects to transform a town or city with a single building, com bining disciplines can provide an even greater catalyst for change. Spanish firm Fündc works across the gamut of architecture, landscape design, urban planning and infrastructure design to realize its visions of place-making, and no project illustrates these visions…