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It is not often that architecture itself is the subject of cinema.

What started with a high school cheerleader making a duck face in front of a bathroom mirror and sha melessly posting in on Facebook, evolved into a leitmotif of numerous art and architectural projects, competitions, festivals and studies.

A new name, an eponymous new typeface by Chester Jenkins of Pentagram, and a landmark headquarters r enovated and reimagined by a complex array of design professionals signaled last December’s long-awaited $91 million reopening of America’s official museum of global design excellence, The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The design team included Gluckman Mayner, Beyer Blinder…

On March 12, 2015, the architecture and design world lost one of its greats: Michael Graves, whose w ide-ranging practice included pioneering Post-modernism to popular products for the likes of Alessi, Target and J.C.Penney. With some thousands of design to his name, Graves is gone but certainly not forgotten, and his legacy will endure both in…

Forget Apple’s sleek new headquarters in Cupertino — if any building might represent the iPhone in a rchitectural form, this is it. Today sees the opening of the new contemporary art wing of the Corning Museum of Glass. The client for this major civic project in upstate New York, Corning Inc., produces Gorilla Glass, used for…

China’s economy might be slowing a bit, but it is still in relative boomtimes, growing at a ra te of 7.5% in 2014. The last decade has thus seen development happening at astounding rates, including speculative projects that were never really necessary, or perhaps will not be necessary for many years. In addition to ghost towns,…

When Gustave Eiffel completed his tower for the 1889 World Fair in Paris, the observation deck typol ogy was truly born. The success of that structure – it remains the most visited paid monument in the world – illustrated the power of the humble viewing platform to transform a city’s economic fortunes and its architectural identity…

The Future of Shade Competition is now open, and with the introduction of three categories for the t hird edition, we’re excited about the opportunity to explore each category in more detail. We've previously looked at inspiration for the Humanitarian category; now we bring you a closer look at the Wellness Garden category.

Dan Kiley was no ordinary gardener. His landscape designs alongside Mid-century masters such as Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, I.M. Pei, and Kevin Roche were, by many accounts, the beginning of Landscape Modernism. His distinct brand of design took the fundamentals of French garden design to new places, giving them a Modernist sensibility, free from the…