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More than perhaps any other city in Canada, Toronto has called upon the stars of the architectural w orld to solidify its status as a center of cultural and artistic significance in North America. Ever since Will Alsop’s outlandish OCAD Sharp Center for Design was completed just over a decade ago, the big names have been…

A short while ago, we published an in-depth feature on designs for the dead covering every typology from Thomas Willson’s towering, pyramidal mausoleum to Katrina Spade’s highly organic alternative. It appears that architects have come a long way since Willson’s outlandish monument to mortality; just as Spade illustrated that a contemporary approach to the handling…

Recognizing that one can’t compare apples to oranges, Marvin Windows and Doors expanded the scope of its annual Architects Challenge, now in its seventh year: six distinct categories were formed to include both residential and commercial as well as traditional and contemporary projects. “Marvin’s products complement diverse design styles, given their flexibility,” says Christine Marvin,…

The English countryside is known for its rolling hills, green fields and luscious gardens, but Briti sh designer Thomas Heatherwick’s studio is located in the most urban of settings, near King’s Cross Station in the heart of London. Despite this, it appears that the multidisciplinary artist is always in touch with the natural context surrounding this…

Over the last 26 years, the Brick Industry Association (BIA) has been honoring outstanding U.S. proj ects that deftly — and prominently — incorporate clay brick with its annual Brick in Architecture Awards. The judges of the 2015 competition have spoken, and 49 projects spanning 21 states were recently awarded in nine categories for their excellent…

After revealing some fairly fantastical renderings of a contemporary stone pyramid for Jerusalem las t week, one might be forgiven for thinking that Daniel Libeskind lives in the realm of pure architectural fantasy. However, the Polish-American architect has recently returned to reality in Brazil, completing his first project in South America for real estate giants JSHF.…

In Chicago, during NeoCon 2015, Allsteel demonstrated its forward-thinking adaptability to a changin g workplace by unveiling its reconfigured 14,000-square-foot Chicago Resource Center. Designed in collaboration with a team from IA Interior Architects, a series of 16 vignettes was laid out over the 11th floor of the city’s Merchandise Mart like a neighborhood of city blocks…

From regal Queen Mum to cheery flowers, beloved silkscreen imagery by Andy Warhol made an easy trans ition into the wall-coverings market when, two years ago, Flavor Paper launched its Andy Warhol x Flavor Paper collection. Initially, it comprised the aforementioned along with other best-known works such as Shoes and The Last Supper. Following that success,…

“Plecnik is, in a way, a hero for most of us, especially in the way he branched out from the moderni st mainstream, developed his own expression, took ideas from local architecture, and designed everything from door handles to urbanistic proposals. We try to follow a similar logic,” the architects told Architizer.