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Architizer attended Autodesk University this week to experience the new tools transforming work-flow s both in the studio and on the construction site

This article was originally featured in PIN–UP magazine. PIN–UP is a biannual architecture and desig n magazine (“Magazine for Architectural Entertainment”) that regularly features interviews with renowned architects as well as critical essays and contemporary architecture and design photography. Architizer will feature an article from its NEW POWER GENERATION series from its latest issue every other week.

Defining your hourly rate is a difficult thing. Many architects are afraid to set their hourly rates too high, especially when they are just starting their businesses and clients are not yet queueing up.

Some things just aren’t meant to be. The tumultuous love affair between Manchester City Council and minimalism appears over, and the fallout has plunged architectural purists into a period of urgent introspection. This critical moment is signified not by the construction of a building, but by its unceremonious removal: Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s only structure…

For architects, designers and specifiers who are frequently tasked with balancing client needs, aest hetics, performance and budget, material selection is a crucial piece of the successful project puzzle. And surfacing, in particular, can be a uniquely challenging application for which to specify. Natural wood surfaces in healthcare settings and leather finishes in hospitality projects, for…

With access to giant development markets like China and the United Arab Emirates, architecture firms based in the Middle East are becoming more diverse and prevalent in the ever-evolving race to making architecture bigger, taller and more impressive as well as more functional and sustainable for future generations. Architects all around the globe are now…

Allied Works Architecture (AWA) has completed its most ambitious project — Studio Bell — the new hom e to Calgary’s National Music Centre of Canada. The 160,000-square-foot project is formed through the connection of nine interlocking towers, featuring a dramatically suspended bridge, which allows the building to straddle over a central road in Calgary. With a…

For more than 50 years, Flansburgh Architects of Boston, Massachusetts has been designing award-winn ing educational projects, some of which encompass a wide range of buildings. “It’s a microcosm of everything,” explains Joseph Marshall, AIA, architect and BIM coordinator at Flansburgh. “Private and international schools with large campuses allow us to design theaters, dormitories, athletic facilities,…

There is a certain irony in NBC calling creative majors useless when its own media platform is undou btedly brought to life by people with degrees in those very subjects.