Features revealing the design and development of the world’s most innovative building-products.
For the third year running, Architizer is excited to partner with Sunbrella for the Future of Shade Competition to design beautiful spaces using fabric. With the growing interest and increasingly diverse range of entries in the past two editions of the annual competition, this year sees its expansion to three distinct categories — Humanitarian, Wellness…
Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Michele de Lucchi — Founder and Principal of aMDL — who has two groundbreaking projects debuting later this…
Prouvé RAW: Office Edition — Vitra and G-Star RAW’s second furniture collection of updated designs b y the French architect and designer — launches next month at the Milan Furniture Fair. Included in the collection are revamped versions of furniture and lighting fixtures that were originally designed for 1940s French industrial company offices. Catherine Prouvé at…
The Future of Shade Competition is now open, and with the introduction of three categories for the t hird edition, we’re excited about the opportunity to explore each category in more detail. We've previously looked at inspiration for the Humanitarian category; now we bring you a closer look at the Wellness Garden category.
Running a successful architecture practice is more than just program diagrams and foundation details : the operational side of things is equally important when it comes to keeping the firm afloat and it takes both business sense and creativity to spur growth. For project managers, accounting is paramount. It is important to keep close track of…
Chicago architects, decorators, design enthusiasts, and savvy shoppers have a lot to celebrate this year. The Merchandise Mart, the epicenter for design in Chicago, has added four new showrooms to its LuxeHome collection located on the 1st floor of this iconic building. These include the Miele Center, Scavolini Store Chicago, Wood-Mode Lifestyle Design Center, and…
rom enduring ancient monuments to a tradition of excellent products, no country in the world can boa st artisans with a deeper historical connection to fine stoneware than Italy. Within Italy, however, no one can beat the quality and innovations of manufacturer Casalgrande Padana. To celebrate their commitment to exceptional stoneware and its uses in contemporary architecture, they are now accepting entries for their 10th Grand Prix, recognizing the most technically accomplished and expressive uses of their materials in projects from 2012 to 2015.
The next building you build may contain sources of fungus, invasive alien plant species, mutant frui t, or weeds. But in a good way. These materials and more are some of the main ingredients in the new generation of biopolymers and biocomposites, products that mainly comprise plant, animal, fungal, and bacterial sources that can now be…
Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Guy Peterson, FAIA — Founder and Principal of Guy Peterson | Office for Architecture — whose forthcoming book…