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What brands like Dornbracht™ keep reaffirming is that luxury product design can be both unique and v ersatile. The company’s newest series of bathroom fittings combines technology and delicate contours meant to delight both the eye and the skin while providing numerous possibilities for customization. The new CL.1 series, conceptualized and designed by Sieger Design, introduces…
Programming lies at the heart of architecture. While modernity brought new definitions to the famili ar term — from computer coding to radio broadcasts — programming as a spatial practice remains essential to design. Explored by Praxis almost a decade ago, programming is more than a list of spaces organized by ambiguous bubble diagrams. Approached as…
The emptiness and muted lighting of each scene creates a wistful atmosphere.
Like offices, education projects have been getting another look: it’s no longer the case that any at tempt to beautify these spaces is purely about aesthetics. Some studies point to pleasant and comfortable built environments as positively impacting students’ retention, attention, engagement and motivation — all factors in the learning process. To accommodate the new theories…
“We always want to conquer space.” Wolf Prix was in a robust mood as he took architectural filmmaker s Spirit of Space on a tour of the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France. Reflecting on the success of a building that has welcomed an estimated one million visitors since it opened a year ago, the founder…
Laminate can be so much more than a surfacing material for furniture or countertops, some aspiring d esigners have discovered during Formica Corporation’s inaugural SurfaceSet 2016 Student Innovation Competition. The competition challenged students to conceptualize a commercial space using a minimum of three products from the manufacturer’s SurfaceSet 2016 laminate collection. In the end, a jury…
The past 12 months has seen some remarkable projects delivered around the globe; from the world’s se cond tallest building — Gensler’s Shanghai Tower — to the many pavilions of the Milan World Expo. The ambitions of designers and developers remains undiminished, though, and 2016 will see the completion of a host of new, groundbreaking, genre-defining…
“This century is seeing the emergence of a new type of human settlement — the megalopolis.” — Consta ntinos Doxiadis, “The Emerging Great Lakes Megalopolis,” 1968 Much of our inherited urban landscape continues to be understood via early modernist notions of the city. These sweeping urban manifestos present visions of a static city with forms and…
It’s been another eventful year for architects around the globe, full of controversy, conversation a nd contemporary design of the highest order. Here, we take a look back at some of the biggest events and most notable new buildings covered by Architizer over the past 12 months. Click on the hyperlinks provided to remind yourself of…