With 90+ categories and 300+ jurors, the Architizer A+Awards is the world’s definitive archite ctural awards program. In anticipation of the Awards Gala and Phaidon book launch on May 14, we are pleased to share the stories behind the winners of the 2015 Awards program — see all of them here. MHN Design Union won the…
By modeling design in three dimensions, Building Information Modeling (BIM) can increase productivit y across the board for designers. It surpasses the 2D drawing process by streamlining coordination between collaborators and alerting all users to collisions between systems that previously would not have been detected until the field. If the benefits of BIM are well established,…
“Seven is my lucky number; it was on my soapbox derby as a kid,” quipped Joseph Farrell, AIA, during the opening celebration of the Center for Architecture Sarasota (CFAS). This was not just an offhand comment from one of the building’s original designers who was pointing up at the seven-foot sculpted overhangs brightened by a…
School Floating in the Sky in Shangkhaburi Village, Thailand, is a stellar example of collaboration — the team of D Environmental Design System Laboratory, led by Japanese architect Kikuma Watanabe, translated kids' drawings into a ship-like earthbag building built with the help of local carpenters, mountain people, and kids.
Mid-20th-century Latin American design is taking over New York, as last month saw the opening of two major exhibitions showcasing the power and promise of Latin American modernism. Indeed, the last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in design from these cultures, and the storied region is finally getting its due. Plaza of the…
Atelier Chang Ltd. won the 2015 A+Awards, Jury Choice, for the Hospitality: Hotels & Resorts Categor y with Knot House. This series of five guest houses is located on a cliff on the southern coast of Geoje Island, South Korea.
Today is April Fool’s Day, which is a good opportunity to reflect on the topic of rendering as design fiction. Architectural rendering relies heavily on Photoshop to drive its narratives, as post-production allows designers to visualize worlds with insanely good-looking people riding bikes across plazas and brunching al fresco under a hazy lens flare. These…
Achillina Bo was born in Rome in 1914, the same year that Le Corbusier published his Maison Dom-Ino. She worked for designers in Italy, including Carlo Pagani, before founding her own practice in 1932. After World War II destroyed Europe, it was Domus magazine that sent her out to survey the destruction of the built…
By the 1920s, airplane travel had made art and architecture a global profession, at least in the dis semination and cross-contamination of ideas. All over the globe, colonialism and otherwise globalized commissions were spreading modernism and other sociopolitical systems around the world. These intellectual histories make for fascinating tales that reveal a secondary history behind some…