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"At the end of the project we wheel out these little drawings and they’re uncannily like the finishe d building.”

Some years ago, the ever-whimsical luminaire designer Ingo Maurer developed a lighting product of a different sort. Instead of a chandelier made to resemble birds in a tree or floating circuit-board strips, the simply named LED Wallpaper was a non-woven covering with integrated LEDs creating a field of isometric shapes. Ingo Maurer Since then, niche…

There has been talk of 3D printing revolutionizing the construction industry for some time, but fant astical visions of outrageously intricate prototypes and robot builders have been tempered by suspicions amongst many that the technology is a novelty, lacking the practicality for use on a mass scale. With this in mind, experimental design firm Branch Technology’s…

Rome wasn’t built in a day. With a history spanning more than 2,000 years, the city is one of the ol dest continuously occupied sites in Europe. Considered by some to be the first ever metropolis, Rome has become a global capital of art, culture and religion. Shaping Western Civilization and major historical movements throughout the…

Updated May 9th, 2016, upon news that the Makoko Floating school has been shortlisted for the 2016 A ga Khan Award for Architecture. If you dove into our collection on floating architecture back in 2013, you could be forgiven for believing that waterborne buildings are purely lodged in the realms of luxury design. However, Amsterdam-based firm…

The Woodhull Medical Center (1969–1978) by Kallman & McKinnell — designers of the oft-loathed Bo ston City Hall — and Kenzo Tange’s Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Center (1961–1966) are two geographically and typologically remote projects, but ones that emerged from the same architectural ethos: an unabashed structural expression of buildings as containers for social activities rather…

The section truly is the mother of visual storytellers.

What is it about the destruction of famous buildings, bridges and statues that both filmmakers and a udiences find so attractive?

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