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Most everyone desires that spare room to turn into an office or study, home gym, guest quarters, poo l house, art or music studio or (wo)man cave. If you lack the extra space to make this desire a reality but have a yard or other piece of outdoor property, consider building a Modern-Shed. Founded by husband-and-wife…

There is a Grand Canyon–esque divide that exists between the baby boomer and millennial generations within architecture. The Great Recession in the late 2000s is mostly responsible for creating this gap, which seemingly skips over an entire generational category, Gen X. This void has limited the amount of transitional opportunities between generational groups leading to…

In collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu of OMA, artist Taryn Simon has created An Occupation of Loss , a spatial performance that continues her exploration on the notions of abstraction. Unveiled at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, the installation and series of happenings meditate on “the anatomy of grief and the intricate systems that we devise to…

THIS RESEARCH WAS PRODUCED BY THE SENSE‘ABLe’ CITY LAB AT MIT, DIRECTED BY CARLO RATTI AND ASSAF BID ERMAN. The feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion…

Structural connections needn’t just be functional in architecture today: Thanks to companies like Ne w York–, San Francisco–, and Toronto-based Cast Connex, they can also make for edgy or elegant details. In just nine short years, Cast Connex has grown quickly from startup status to the largest North American supplier of steel castings for architecturally exposed…

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Or, in this case, products. Practice as an architect lo ng enough, and you’ll feel the impacts of changing economies for better or for worse. For two young architects, a lack of work opportunities during the Recession led to their foray into products, which turned out to be a…

The urban myth that architects and engineers are perpetually warring with each other has been debunk ed time and again by incredible collaborations between the professions, but this harmony has been taken to another level for Oppenheim Architecture’s GLF Headquarters, recently completed on the bank of the Miami River. In this case, engineers are not just…

There’s a wide range of tools used by architects and planners to communicate the potential impact of major projects. Drawings, for example, are one of the most basic, as are masterplans, market studies and environmental surveys. None of these, however, are quite as accessible and powerful as a series of interventions being developed for the…

Unlike mobile phones, most people don’t upgrade their tablet until it’s rendered useless. But you sh ould.