Marvel at the Perfect Symmetry of Zsolt Hlinka’s Architectural Portraits
Photographer Hlinka's images look like something straight from a movie poster for Wes Anderson’s “Gr and Budapest Hotel.”
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Photographer Hlinka's images look like something straight from a movie poster for Wes Anderson’s “Gr and Budapest Hotel.”
“98% of what gets built and designed today is pure shit.” Frank Gehry took the award for the most re markable quote of 2014, when his sharp-toothed retort to a Spanish journalist caused an entire profession to look itself in the proverbial mirror. Even the most outspoken architects would have a tough time rising to that…
The architectural profession can be a slow-moving beast, but for the more adaptable, avant-garde fir ms out there, a single year can change everything. From Brooklyn-based SO – IL to the Australian Austin Maynard Architects, here are Architizer’s top firms to keep an eye on in 2016: Artes Amant Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1. SO – IL…
The past 12 months has seen some remarkable projects delivered around the globe; from the world’s se cond tallest building — Gensler’s Shanghai Tower — to the many pavilions of the Milan World Expo. The ambitions of designers and developers remains undiminished, though, and 2016 will see the completion of a host of new, groundbreaking, genre-defining…
It’s been another eventful year for architects around the globe, full of controversy, conversation a nd contemporary design of the highest order. Here, we take a look back at some of the biggest events and most notable new buildings covered by Architizer over the past 12 months. Click on the hyperlinks provided to remind yourself of…
Casa Sperimentale is a wild, eclectic ode to Brutalism, slowly crumbling away on a wooded plot near the coast.
One of the most talked-about stories in architecture this year has been Tokyo’s decision to scrap Za ha Hadid’s competition-winning design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium. Fueled by concerns over spiraling costs, public discontentment at the scale of the proposed arena, and mounting criticism from Japanese architects, the city pulled the plug on the British-Iraqi architect’s…
Writing for Gensler’s 50th-anniversary blog series “Fifty On,” public relations manager Katie Dabbsr ecently contributed some fascinating insights into the strengthening relationship between design and social media, and how the online “wisdom of the crowd” will help shape the cities of the future. With wide-ranging sources from Kim Kardashian to Iwan Baan, here’s what Dabbs had…
A series of visualizations offers tantalizing glimpses of a new center for contemporary Chinese cult ure — and illustrates the firm’s astute eye for restraint in architectural renderings.