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Updated by Paul Keskeys, June 10th 2016. Today marks a big moment for soccer fans, as Euro 2016 kick s off in Paris with the showpiece match between the hosts and Romania at the Stade de France. However, for the most stunning arena of the event, architectural enthusiasts must look further south, to the port city…
Architects: Showcase your work and find the perfect materials for your next project through Architiz er. Manufacturers: To connect with the world’s largest architecture firms, sign up now. Picture the scene: It is 10 p.m. on a Thursday night. Beneath an angle-poise lamp glowing in a darkened studio, a young architect furiously applies the finishing touches to a section…
In many ways, the Price tower feels like a piece of Manhattan awkwardly plopped down in the middle o f Oklahoma.
Jenny Sabin is fascinated by the intersection of architecture and science. The head of her own exper imental design studio and a faculty member of Cornell University’s architecture department, Sabin is dedicated to applying insights from biology, physics, engineering and mathematics to architecture and material systems. Her interdisciplinary approach has produced mesmerizing projects including Branching Morphogenesis,…
Architects: Showcase your next project through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newslett er. It may be cliché nowadays to state that something exists at the intersection of art and design, but take one look at the repertoire of New York City–based Ian Stell and this descriptor may be the first one on your lips,…
Performance and aesthetics don’t necessarily need to be mutually exclusive. That’s especially true f or new developments in 21st-century glass, as Guardian Industries Corp. demonstrated at last month’s AIA (American Institute of Architects) convention in Philadelphia. “Energy performance requirements in building design often force architects and designers to measure glass performance against its aesthetics,” says Chris…
The current system of architectural education is woefully out of step with the profession it serves. Prohibitively expensive relative to average salaries, unreflective of actual workplace functioning and out of touch with the rest of society, it threatens to keep the profession of architecture stuck facing the same problems it has today for decades to…
The six winners in the 2016 Wienerberger Brick Award competition share one common trait: the innovat ive use of one of the world’s most enduring and versatile building materials. For the first time since Wienerberger Brick established this international biennial award in 2004, architects — as well as journalists and architecture critics — were eligible to…
On the eve of PIN-UP magazine’s 10th anniversary, Architizer spoke with the publication’s founding e ditor Felix Burrichter about issue 20, graphic design in architecture and dream features for its future (Mr. Gehry, if you’re reading this … ). Emma Macdonald: Congratulations on the new issue. What brought about its theme, ‘garden variety’? Felix Burrichter: The…