Blue jeans, cowboys, McDonald’s. When it comes to American cliches, perhaps none have proved m ore resilient — or more influential throughout the world — than the fast-food chain with the golden arches. McDonald’s largely shapes how the rest of the world sees America. With 33,000 stores around the globe, McDonald’s has a presence in almost…
When New York City–based equities trader Laurence Cohen purchased one of the three floor-through uni ts in Obsidian House, he also heeded signs to treat the new home as a blank canvas. The 38-year-old had spent the previous decade in a low-ceilinged postwar apartment building in Greenwich Village, and Obsidian House’s Tribeca location, history of innovation…
Schumacher’s presentation was met with significant pushback from the audience, including one member who asked, “Why not privatize the air we breathe?”
Earlier this month, a popular Washington, D.C.–based architecture commentator took to one hometown n ewspaper to mull local developers’ propensities for all-glass new construction. Was the material’s popularity, combined with limitations like the city’s famous height moratorium, producing look-alike buildings? The thought piece imagined differentiating future projects with traditional materials or higher-flying design. And while these…
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In light of strenuous discourse on climate vulnerabilities, strengthening national infrastructure an d the role of architects within urban innovation and sustainability, it is crucial to give attention to and evaluate successful infrastructure that is both conscious of its environment and gives precedence to smart design. Enter NEXT Architects, a Dutch firm founded by Bart Reuser,…
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“We always come back to the pool as the perfect center point in our projects,” says Wong.