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Leave it to the Brits to come up with something so funny and true that it ends up being a little ter rifying. Austerity is an update of Monopoly, but instead of robber barons and railroads, there are global financiers and the Shard. It is a fitting parody of the classic Parker Bros board game that…
Is the optimal workplace open plan or cubicle? The jury’s still out. That’s why flexible workspaces that toe the line between the two are now a large part of the task furniture market. And if it turns out those aren’t what you’re looking for, a new, more sustainable range gives you the option of trial…
America’s most famous architect of the late-20th century (extending as it has into the 21st) is Fran k Gehry; after all, stylistic eras rarely coincide exactly with the calendar’s measure of time. Now, one of his most audacious and long-awaited works, the fondation that opened to the public less than three months ago, finds itself in…
“They say nothing comes easy,” murmurs the protagonist in the opening sequence of the single most ri diculous promotional video for a building ever made, shooting to the top of the list of 11 other contenders. Indeed: Making a sensible advertisement for a luxury high-rise is almost impossible these days, it seems. British developer Redrow has…
Allsteel, a manufacturer of cutting-edge workplace environments, crafts products that were unheard o f just a decade ago. A few examples: Hedge, an angled partition wall with built-in shelf specifically designed for leaning on; Rise, a modular lounge made of tiered, rectangular seats; and Mind-Share, seating with a super-high backrest that doubles as a screen. All…
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 Bob Borson, AIA, LEED, AP — principal of Malone Maxwell Borson Architects — who experiences architecture with an…
20 Fenchurch Street — known by Londoners, not so affectionately, as the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ — has ruffle d more than a few feathers during its ungainly rise from the north bank of the Thames River. Its thuggish, lumbering form has been met with a tidal wave of derision from the U.K’s leading architecture critics, not to mention…
As a respite from all the in-your-face robotics and high-tech fanfare going on at the Consumer Elect ronics Show, Architizer found one moment of Zen playing around with the ambient lighting options of Philips Hue Tap. The puck-like remote control syncs to Philips’ smart, color-changing Hue lights via ZigBee, a lower-energy, appliance-specific alternative to wi-fi that…
Although ubiquitous email is only two decades old and the iPhone launched a mere seven years ago, mo bile working has already rewritten the playbook of office design. In fact, the transformation is so complete that its signatures—unassigned seating, bench tables, floor plans favoring chance interactions—already seem like old hat. Do the 21st-century offices that dazzle…