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,…
L: Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center via Esto; R: The Museo delle Culture by Davi d Chipperfield, via Huff Post. Haters Gonna Hate: The New York Times has compiled a case for the defense of the world’s most loathed buildings — in the words of some of its most celebrated architects. Libeskind makes a case…
It came down to the wire last Friday night as the full-house audience at St. Patrick’s Old Cat hedral watched the real-time results of the text-to-vote poll on the big screen, but one team emerged victorious: by the time MC Ilya Marritz called it, the Underline prevailed over the East River Skyway by a single vote.…
L: SHoP’s Uber HQ, via Curbed; R: Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site, via Archdaily . Road to Riches: Ride-sharing platform Uber will be moving into an über-cool new headquarters in a couple of years’ time thanks to SHoP Architects. The New York-based studio unveiled brand-new renderings of the office complex in San Francisco where 3,000…
Guardian Industries Corp. will be bringing its newest digital tool to the AIA National Conference in Atlanta this month, showing how the glass manufacturer has made the glass selection easier and more efficient than ever. Founded in 1932, the Auburn Hills, Mich.-based manufacturer produces float and fabricated glass products including SunGuard® Advanced Architectural Glass, which…
Each year since 2013, Architizer has partnered with Sunbrella to sponsor the Future of Shade Competi tion, an open call for projects and ideas that explore the possibilities of what fabric architecture can be. Now in its third year, the 2015 competition received 190 submissions from 36 countries including the US, Canada, India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Italy,…
Not many parts of the world have yet to be touched by the influential hand of Dame Zaha Hadid, but C entral America had been one of them … until now. Following her first foray into South America — the proposal for a spine-like condominium in Rio de Janeiro was revealed late last year — the…
A Helsinki Feeling: This week sees the next stage of the ongoing Guggenheim competition as the six f inalists have refined their designs, which will be exhibited in Helsinki starting on Saturday. Meanwhile, Michael Sorkin doesn’t mince his words about why he and his fellow organizers launched the “alternative” competition Next Helsinki. “It will feel new,…
Have It Norway: Proposals by Snøhetta, BIG (pictured above), and MVRDV are among the six shortlisted entries for the new government quarter in Oslo, an atypical competition for which there will not be a single winner. Although architecture sites have focusedon the renderings, it’s also worth remembering the sociopolitical background of the competition: “The project…