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SketchUp Viewer enables architects to fully immerse themselves and experience their ideas through 1: 1 holographic scale models.

Lighting has the ability to transform a project and how it’s experienced more than you may realize, particularly when it’s used to highlight vertical surfaces and ornaments. Consider, for a moment, what the New York City skyline would be like at night without the recognizable beacon that is the Empire State Building’s crown. The building’s…

Rendering artist Rafal Barnas approaches each project individually.

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Peter Eerlings is the creator of Archisnapper, an intelligent site management app that helps archite cts create field reports with incredible efficiency — read more here. He also hosts a series of informative articles about technology and business for architects on the Archisnapper Blog, a selection of which we are glad to present on Architizer. If…

In 1962, Boston was in trouble. Residents, manufacturers, and businesses were fleeing the city, leav ing behind acres of empty lots and boarded-up buildings. Residents needed a “new Boston,” and that year the city launched a rare open design competition in search of a new city hall that would symbolize—and help achieve—this rebirth. The two-stage, anonymous competition drew 256 entries, but in the end, the jury unanimously chose a bold, cutting-edge, and controversial design that was the work of “three young architects, two of them foreigners.” This concrete, Brutalist structure would become, David Dillon wrote, “one of the most remarkable debuts in American architectural history” and “arguably the great building of twentieth-century Boston,” according to Douglass Shand-Tucci’s definitive history, Built in Boston.

The Japanese architect’s drawings are the epitome of the restrained, minimalist style for which the king of concrete is renowned.

Herman Miller’s Aeron was the chair when it launched in the ’90s. It catapulted the word “ergonomics ” into the workplace, and, with its foam-free mesh-seat design, it looked nothing like office chairs before it. Everyone from the early dot-com techies to Hollywood producers — and their mothers — had to have one not only because…

"Our sleeplessness is not an act of heroism or simply for show. It happens out of dedication for our work and a faith in our abilities to see our visions through."