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“Contracting the work would cost close to $2,000, while Occipital charges $29 per room for the ‘Scan to CAD’ feature.”

With its emphasis on all things visual, Tumblr has emerged as one of the most engaging platforms for observing architecture, ranging from the historic to the surreal. The upload-based social network is a haven for image-hoarders everywhere, with each Tumblr carefully curated to indulge a very specific craving, be it endangered Brutalism or decadent interior…

Changing a wall landscape to increase storage or display new decorative objects is not only time-con suming, but tedious. But there are alternatives to the nail-and-hammer method for those who are less handy or who don’t want to waste time and energy plying out drywall anchors and patching up holes, among other messy tasks: A growing…

As New York City planners and developers continue to develop the long-neglected waterfronts along th e East River, a new proposal begins to take shape. In North Brooklyn, the former industrial site that was home to the Astral Oil Works refinery has finally been secured by the city after a contested battle to purchase the last…

“Architects should sketch. I am convinced of this,” says Bob Borson of MMB Architects. “I haven’t ev er — I mean EVER — personally met an architect who I thought was a good designer who didn’t sketch.”

Within the last decade, mixed-use and multifamily residential projects have been on the risearound t he world. Substantial movements toward urbanism and new solutions to housing supply shortages in cities like Los Angeles have spurred the need for denser, bigger housing. But while these projects have had a positive impact on the industry as a whole…

“We were a part of defining the project, not merely the creative problem-solvers.”

“For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an ‘industry’ whose ultimat e goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, radical,” states Giovanna Borasi in her essay “Another Way of Building Architecture.”

When New York City–based equities trader Laurence Cohen purchased one of the three floor-through uni ts in Obsidian House, he also heeded signs to treat the new home as a blank canvas. The 38-year-old had spent the previous decade in a low-ceilinged postwar apartment building in Greenwich Village, and Obsidian House’s Tribeca location, history of innovation…