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Architects — particularly those who advocated the omnipotent potential of modernism — are often accu sed of possessing some kind of God Complex, believing in their ability to shape whole landscapes in accordance with their unshakeable utopian beliefs. If that is the case, then the new Earth Primer App should have us all salivating: The self-described…

In the matter of two decades, America has gone from having (arguably) “no” design scene to boasting a bona fide design movement. Role models have provided one source of that transformation, and Henrybuilt stands chief among them. Best known for its kitchens, the company approaches the function, materiality, and execution of all its products with…

Billionaire’s row, a stretch of midtown Manhattan now dotted with exorbitantly priced, starchitect-d esigned residential highrises, has officially arrived with a sky-high record: a condo in Christian de Portzamparc’s One57 recently sold for $100 million, the highest sum in the city’s history. Indeed, international billionaires are currently pricing out the mere millionaires who formerly called the…

Investigating ice as a building material, a team of Eindhoven University of Technology students has built a 1:5 scale ice replica of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia in Juuka, Finland. The structure is made of “pykrete,” a mix of regular frozen water and wood fiber reinforcement that makes the material three times stronger than, say, the…

Architizer continues to explore how architects experience the emotional realm during the process of creation, presenting the points of view of some of the profession’s most actualized practitioners. Today, Saxon Henry, author of Four Florida Moderns, interviews Kimberly Brown, AIA, LEED, AP — Co-founder and Principal of Strata Architects, PLLC — who speaks of the…

London might be home to the Gherkin, and soon, the Can of Ham and the Tortilla Wrap, but a city half way around the world is now home to an enormous brown lunch bag — meant, perhaps, to put them all in. Frank Gehry’s addition to the business school at the University of Technology in Sydney…

No darts allowed: The The Hogshead Inflatable Pub can pop-up on any flat surface and houses, within its flame-retardent polyester walls, a full bar. The traveling publican is available to rent for just the small sum of £300 ($450) a night, as long as you are in Ireland. Standing 18-ft high, this 528-square-foot pub will…

“Geologists talk about the age where we are living as Anthropocene… this idea that we are livi ng in a time where human presence is the strongest force of change.” So says Bjarke Ingels, enfant prodige of contemporary architecture — borrowing the words of a scientific community that has yet to reach a consensus on when…

There has been no end of attempts by London’s army of urban planners to address the issues caused by the capital’s burgeoning population, and the traffic that comes with it. In 2003 we were treated to the congestion charge, aiming to deter car users from entering the city’s congested heart, and 2010 saw the launch…