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Earlier this year, West Elm, already an arbiter of affordable home style, expanded its influence. We st Elm Workspace comprises six collections of contract-grade furniture for the modern office. Comprising more than 75 pieces, the sub-brand’s lines were designed entirely in-house and produced in collaboration with North American manufacturer Inscape, with high-performance fabrics by Designtex. Architizer…

Fresh Air Photo Bristol, VA and its companion city of the same name, Bristol, TN, straddle the Virgi nia-Tennessee border and share the reputation as country music’s birthplace. The 1927 Bristol Sessions, country music’s first commercially successful recordings – commonly referred to as the genre’s “Big Bang” – are immortalized in the new Smithsonian-backed Birthplace of…

When SANAA’s Grace Farms opened to the public last month, visitors were treated to a feast for the e yes — from the sinuous architecture and connecting spaces of The River building to the surrounding landscape’s early-autumn foliage. But equally impressive were a number of the project’s furniture pieces and light fixtures that the Japanese Pritzker…

To date, FormIt 360 is the only conceptual BIM tool that allows you to build 3D models on a tablet d evice instead of merely viewing them — and it’s all about finger control.

“Architecture is NOT ART … ” When Patrik Schumacher took to Facebook to tell the world to cease conf using these two fundamental disciplines, it raised the question: what would Zaha Hadid Architects’ company director and Senior Designer think of James Turrell’s work? As an artist primarily concerned with light and space, the American’s installations often…

‘Building Tomorrow’ presents the contemporary trends in building design and the global forces drivin g them forward using Architizer’s annual A+AWARDS submissions as the benchmark. The data is creatively visualized to provide valuable insights for designers, retailers, and any industry working to create experiential designs. Download the full report for free at www.psfk.com/report/building-tomorrow. Emerging technologies are…

While the Day of the Dead opening sequence might have stolen the spotlight in the latest 007 movie S pectre, a certain design icon very quietly infiltrated the set — and has made a cameo in just about every James Bond film not via product placement, but by selection. Just take a look back at the…

As any architect knows, a sound substructure literally and figuratively is the foundation of any bui lding. And the key to a solid foundation, of course, is a comprehensive survey and geotechnical evaluation. To that end, the American Institute of Architects has recently released a series of new contract documents that are expressly intended to define…

When viewing the work of London-based Neil Tomlinson Architects, it becomes quite clear that the sta ircase is not an afterthought in the design process. On the contrary, it is sometimes a key element, as demonstrated by two recently completed local residential commissions. Morton Mews. Photography by Agnese Sanvito. For the Morton Mews project, the architects…