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Two projects, unveiled on the same day last week, shed light on some of the issues that contemporary architects face, from the beginning of a project to the end. They couldn’t be more high-profile yet they also couldn’t be more different in their origins and public reception. But something tells us that both projects are…
Today is April Fool’s Day, which is a good opportunity to reflect on the topic of rendering as design fiction. Architectural rendering relies heavily on Photoshop to drive its narratives, as post-production allows designers to visualize worlds with insanely good-looking people riding bikes across plazas and brunching al fresco under a hazy lens flare. These…
Startups are re-imagining our cities. They are taking on age-old problems ranging from last mile mob ility challenges to water management. On April 23rd, Smart City Startups will showcase 100 of the most promising startups at its annual festival in Miami. Here are 11 startups that are tackling problems in Mobility, Construction and Urban Planning that should be on your radar if you're an architect or urban planner.
Achillina Bo was born in Rome in 1914, the same year that Le Corbusier published his Maison Dom-Ino. She worked for designers in Italy, including Carlo Pagani, before founding her own practice in 1932. After World War II destroyed Europe, it was Domus magazine that sent her out to survey the destruction of the built…
It is not often that architecture itself is the subject of cinema.
What started with a high school cheerleader making a duck face in front of a bathroom mirror and sha melessly posting in on Facebook, evolved into a leitmotif of numerous art and architectural projects, competitions, festivals and studies.
A new name, an eponymous new typeface by Chester Jenkins of Pentagram, and a landmark headquarters r enovated and reimagined by a complex array of design professionals signaled last December’s long-awaited $91 million reopening of America’s official museum of global design excellence, The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The design team included Gluckman Mayner, Beyer Blinder…
On March 12, 2015, the architecture and design world lost one of its greats: Michael Graves, whose w ide-ranging practice included pioneering Post-modernism to popular products for the likes of Alessi, Target and J.C.Penney. With some thousands of design to his name, Graves is gone but certainly not forgotten, and his legacy will endure both in…
Forget Apple’s sleek new headquarters in Cupertino — if any building might represent the iPhone in a rchitectural form, this is it. Today sees the opening of the new contemporary art wing of the Corning Museum of Glass. The client for this major civic project in upstate New York, Corning Inc., produces Gorilla Glass, used for…