Practice: Materials

This category challenges you to create the next best innovative design for disaster relief or a refu gee crisis.

The Yale Art and Architecture Building may be the best known work by noted Brutalist pioneer Paul Ru dolph, but his sprawling 1.5-million-square-foot campus for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has received renewed attention in recent years. Hired by the university in 2007, Boston-based designLAB architects spent six years renovating and extending the campus’s innovative centerpiece,…

Saying that British technology company Dyson Ltd. is committed to research and development could be the understatement of the century. The company spends $8.8 million every week on R&D for new products. It operates a campus in the United Kingdom where 1,500 of its engineers and scientists work on future technology. There, they ably demonstrate…

Watch this exclusive video about the making of the new A+Awards trophy.

To welcome the larger-than-ever attendance at this year's Salone del Mobile, USM devised a new kind of surprise

What is “home?” And how has the changing concept of the home influenced architecture over the last 5 0 years?

There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to contracts between owners and architects, which is w hy we have outlined the benefits of standard AIA Documents, like the B101, for architects in the past. That contract allows for addendum lists and references to be customized for covering numerous details of one large project.…

Take a walk through the architect’s second building on the University of Iowa’s campus.

Last year, when Cadillac moved its headquarters from an iconic Detroit location — the Eero Saarinen– designed G.M. Technical Center — to the trendy New York City neighborhood of SoHo, it gave the automobile giant a chance to reform the image and mission of this historic American manufacturer. In the Gensler-designed Cadillac House, an experiential brand…