Practice

For the eighth year, Marvin Windows and Doors sponsored its competition that celebrates outstanding project designs incorporating the manufacturer’s products — otherwise known as the Marvin Architects Challenge. Results of the 2016 edition once again delivered a feast for the eyes as they were announced at the AIA expo in Philadelphia. And the winners are…

After a 2008 voter-approved bond, the team at Opsis Architecture was tasked with updating Portland C ommunity College’s Rock Creek Campus. In line with a city known for green initiatives and smart growth, the bond stipulated that the 1970s buildings be updated and expanded while also reducing sprawl and becoming more efficient. Cascade Architectural worked closely…

Enrich creates alternate, often surreal realities by manipulating architecture to his digital will.

Aileen Kwun and Bryn Smith’s newly released book Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design is a veritable treasure trove of knowledge from a group of architects who have seen it all. Kwun and Smith’s premise was simple: Sit down with 20 key figures in the profession over the age of…

At Architizer’s 2016 A+Awards gala on May 12th, a series of brilliantly intricate models were unveil ed, built using every architect’s childhood construction toy of choice: LEGO bricks. The scale replicas of these architectural projects — some completed, some under development — were a testament to the creativity of the architectural profession today, but also highlighted…

“I started the business a few days before I turned 30, and I thought I knew everything,” reflects de veloper Ian Gillespie. “That’s how I could start my own business! And then I got to 40 and thought ‘now I know everything.’ But as long as now, at the ripe old age of 50-something, I’ve realized…

“We do not have a disciplinary model that suits the students and paradigms of today,” argues Eisenma n.

Virtual and Augmented Reality might be the talk of our industry right now as more architects and int erior designers use these to give their clients an immersive preview of projects. But now there’s a new way to preview as well as notate 3D models, which can revolutionize how project teams work — and it doesn’t…

In the introduction to her new book One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building, Judith Dupré — the author of the bestseller Skyscrapers — calls its designers Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) “a firm with unparalleled expertise in skyscraper design.” The practice, celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, recently won numerous A+Awards for projects…