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Niemeyer emphasized the key elements of the buildings that define his signature style: their strikin g outlines, designed to create instantly recognizable silhouettes upon the horizon.

A certain ethos pervades every tile, brick and timber board of Kevin Greenberg’s interior renovation s.

Simple tricks for a more efficient Photoshop workflow.

Ever caught yourself referring to Brunelleschi’s Dome or Gehry’s Guggenheim when you weren’t talking about design?

Invaluable advice from an architect whose journey might be just like yours

Parking facilities are typically massive, nondescript concrete structures, but one firm aimed to imb ue one with character — and bring it down to the human scale. The Athena Parking Structure at the University of California, San Diego, Medical Campus “is a bulky thing — a behemoth that’s seven stories tall, and it’s in a very…

Companies specializing in VR software are making strides in engineering a product that fits within t he work-flow of architecture and construction.

Designing with light is no longer reserved for the innately talented or skilled creative. A new modu lar Internet-of-Things product is affording every layperson the ability to compose a work of art with light, too — and it’s as simple as peel and stick. Nanoleaf — the fledgling company behind the world’s only dodecahedron-shaped lightbulb —…

Samantha Raburn is a newly licensed architect at Stantec Architecture in Plano, Texas. Her blog, The Aspiring Architect, recounts her journey to become qualified and acts as an insightful guide to all those following a similar path into the profession.  During my five years of architecture school, I often wondered how applicable the projects and…