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You’d be hard pressed to find an architect that didn’t begin exploring the realms of building design and construction with the help of those little plastic bricks in blue, red, yellow and white. However, there are only a handful of master builders who have turned their love of LEGO into a fully fledged career —…
From a customizable system that channels arachnids to a minimalist glass lamp that melds modern desi gn with traditional technique, there’s something for everyone in this showcase of seven handsome pendant lights. Studio Italia Design BuzziSpace: BuzziLight Alhambra and RoyalThe felt furnishings brand recently unveiled (at Design Shanghai) these luminaires sporting shades of perforated felt that…
In his introduction to the new Audain Art Museum in Whistler, British Columbia, architect John Patka u described the project as “a simple building, which to me is a desirable thing.” John, Patricia Patkau and project architect David Shone designed the building in order to create “a quiet space where the art is allowed to shine”…
Architectural renderings depicting real proposals can often be highly misleading, with rose-tinted f ilters deliberately designed to convince skeptical clients or city councils of a project’s worth. However, with the right person in charge of modeling and compositing, even the most fictitious of concepts can appear highly plausible and incredibly compelling. Digital visualizer Alex Hogrefe is…
TAKING FLIGHTDrone company 3DR announced a new, complete aerial analytics solution for capturing dat a and high-resolution imagery to import for use with Autodesk products. Called Site Scan, it includes a kit with a Solo drone, a Sony Xperia tablet preconfigured with the app, a Sony or GoPro HERO4 Black camera, unlimited 3DR Cloud storage and…
Fascinating photographs of Foster + Partners’ futuristic new Apple campus — currently under construc tion in Cupertino, California — have been revealed. Published by Mashable, the images show building work rapidly progressing on site: glazing and cladding is now being applied to the exterior of the tech giant’s vast, circular structure. The building is set for…
In a recent survey of trends in American rental housing, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reported that fewer than one percent of units include a basic suite of universal-design accommodations. “The picture is far worse among one- to three-family houses,” says Richard Duncan, executive director of the Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based RL Mace Universal…
New Archetypes is a regular column that explores how architects use modest projects to experiment wi th new concepts, collaborations and innovations. These small designs pack a big punch, surpassing the constraints of size, resources or conventional expectations. In the latest installment of our New Archetypes column, Architizer spoke with Stephanie Forsythe + Todd MacAllen —…
In order to create an ambitious indoor/outdoor eatery at Miami’s renowned Bal Harbour Shops, the in- house design team for Hillstone Restaurant Group had to go through a particular kind of window shopping. In turning to Hope’s®, leading manufacturer of custom steel and bronze windows and doors, Project Architect Rakesh Patel found the solutions to help…