“98% of what gets built and designed today is pure shit.” Frank Gehry took the award for the most re markable quote of 2014, when his sharp-toothed retort to a Spanish journalist caused an entire profession to look itself in the proverbial mirror. Even the most outspoken architects would have a tough time rising to that…
The emptiness and muted lighting of each scene creates a wistful atmosphere.
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light,” L e Corbusier wrote in his 1923 manifesto Towards a New Architecture. The same can be said of the architectural photography of Hélène Binet, the 2015 recipient of the Julius Shulman Photography Award. Over the past 25 years, Binet has worked closely…
Following the completion of the largest building in the Netherlands, OMA has returned to its spiritu al home with another conceptual curiosity in Rotterdam. The mixed-use Timmerhuis building has arrived in the heart of the Dutch city, its cascading terraces of glazed cubes now visible above the skyline not far from the distinctive curved form of…
Upon visiting the High Line for the first time in May 2004, the team members of James Corner Field O perations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro entered a lost world, far removed from the New York City they were so accustomed to. A decade later, their transformation of this industrial relic into a stunning elevated park…
The extraordinary beauty and fascinating complexity of nature has captivated society for centuries, and many of the world’s greatest scientists and explorers have devoted their lives to its study attempting to uncover its mysteries. It comes as no surprise, then, that, when an architect is commissioned to design a museum dedicated to the wild world,…
Given that it takes an average of 6 years to learn the architectural design process in school and an other decade to really learn how to implement it– the practice can be a bit esoteric and complex. Below, we attempt to boil it down to 5 simple steps! 1. Programming The first step in the design…
OPEN Architecture utilizes a very different style of drawing: one that communicates scale, form and the relationship between buildings with a crisp, clean clarity.
The best architectural renders are not only beautiful images, they also convey amazing ideas about a rchitecture, and there is a dedicated A+Award category for these projects. both built and unbuilt renders are eligible for submission! enter your project hereand act fast — THE EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 30th. “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t…