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Pantone and Benjamin Moore may each announce a Color of the Year with great fanfare, but paints-and- coatings giant Sherwin-Williams is all about entire palettes with its annual color forecast. Last month, the company unveiled the 2017 Colormix forecast, a presentation of four curated palettes that, Sherwin-Williams declares, indicate in which direction the global-trend winds are…
Great building design doesn’t stop at the architecture. As the prestigious Lumen Awards proves year after year, thoughtful lighting of the architecture can also be key in the design’s success. At the 48th annual Lumen Gala in New York City this month, the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) honored 14 projects for excellence in lighting design…
Updated by Paul Keskeys, June 30, 2016 New renderings for Tadao Ando’s debut project in New York Cit y include a vast, living green wall covering much of one façade, which will change in color throughout the year. Measuring some 55 feet high by 99 feet wide, the flowering elevation will constitute Manhattan’s largest residential green…
Monument Valley by Ustwo is an award-winning game for iPhone and iPad that combines architecture and video games, in which the user journeys through puzzling isometric-perspective spaces. While architecture appears in the background of many games, architecture takes center stage in Monument Valley. Praised for its serene aesthetics and mind-bending optical puzzles, the game won…
In recent years, the mainstream principles of urban planning have undergone a significant shift. Aft er decades of proselytizing by various special-interest groups, many urban planners seem to have begun embracing the notion of mixed-use, walkable development as a model fit for widespread adoption. The proliferation of this wisdom is a great leap forward in the…
Less is more: A simple rhombus is the basis for creating anything in this app. Isometric is an app f or aesthetically inclined architects and designers. In just a few taps, users can create beautiful designs by snapping rhombuses together on an isometric grid. Isometric is simple to learn and to create your own work with.…
Enrique Norten's architecture aims to completely blur the boundaries between public and private real ms.
For product design to move forward, sometimes it has to look backward. That’s the logic Italian ligh ting brand Karman applied to its latest collection, which references historical, traditional and archetypal objects and ornament with modern twists. NotreDame NotreDame is named for the famous cathedral for good reason: Its lace-doily pattern, rendered in resin and marble…
Robert Venturi strove to rewrite the book on modern architectural design.