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Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of design — presenting the points of views of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Perkins+Will’s Elina Cardet — recently named interior architecture and design director at the firm’s Miami office — shares her experience with the emotional aspects of…

When New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art reopened in a new downtown location last year, i t introduced natural light and views that the previous Breuer brutalist home lacked. But to balance the new building’s cool glass-and-metal aesthetic, architects Renzo Piano and Cooper Robertson also incorporated seas of wood flooring that lend the gallery…

Walk into a Luceplan showroom and you might encounter hovering luminescent forms like none you’ve se en before. Finally being introduced stateside, these unique suspension fixtures that were launched in Europe last year are at once stunning, intriguing, organic and otherworldly. Yet each has a different personality that sets it apart from the others. Soleil Noir…

HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro is a Japanese architecture firm based in Iiyama, Atsugi, in the Kanaga wa Prefecture in Japan. With an archive of over 350 projects, the firm specializes in designing and building infrastructures for childhood environments, including day cares, nurseries, and kindergartens. Taku Hibino from HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro talked with Architizer…

Widely considered the world’s biggest lighting and building-tech trade fair, Light + Building took F rankfurt, Germany, by storm last week, attracting some 216,000 trade professionals. But cutting-edge product wasn’t the only draw: Attendees also came out to see Luminale — the Biennale of Lighting Culture — which presented more than 200 lighting installations throughout the…

In 1936, a small architectural firm was founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Louis Skidmore and Nathanie l Owings. Three years later, they would be joined by John O. Merrill, their initials forming an acronym that would become synonymous with skyscrapers, the International Style and global architectural practice. 80 years on, that trio of architects has transformed…

You may have lost your chance to snatch a piece of the Berlin Wall, but there’s plenty of opportunit y to buy and wear a piece of contemporary architecture, so to speak. The anticipated expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Snøhetta, opens this May, and to celebrate, the SFMOMA Museum Store…

There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to contracts between owners and architects, which is w hy we have outlined the benefits of standard AIA Documents, like the B101, for architects in the past. That contract allows for addendum lists and references to be customized for covering numerous details of one large project.…

A zebra can change its stripes, as demonstrated by “Dot,” the spotted zebra that stood guard over a wood farm table set against a safari-evoking backdrop. Meanwhile, a sea of faces doodled onto whiteboard gazed upon a stark white table and complementing crisp-white stools. These constitute just a smidgeon of the 33 vignettes created by…