Mondrian's Window
This house pays homage to architect William Wurster’s notion that, in San Francisco houses, it is not about what you are looking into, but what you are looking out to. The infill renovation project is...
View ArticleGomba, Móricz Zsigmond Körtér
Original architect: József Schall (1ff942) Architect in charge: Levente Szabó DLA, Zsolt Gyüre Co-architects: Orsolya Simon, Dávid Kohout, Balázs Biri Landscape design: Csenge Csontos, Borbála Gyüre...
View Article7 Insanely Hypnotizing Staircases
A set of stairs can lead you on a magical journey: ascending a staircase is literally and figuratively reaching higher, a passage to positivity, where as descending a stairway is a spiral ride...
View ArticleWatch: An Interactive 3D Orchestra Is Everything You Wished Dance Dance...
Step right up to Picarøøn Interactive's Tangible Orchestra, debuted recently in a central Edinburgh parking garage by artists Rebecca Gischel & Sebastian Walter. The installation plays music as...
View ArticleSt. Mark's Bookshop
Clouds Architecture Office was commissioned by St. Mark's Bookshop to design a new book store in a retail space in the historic First Houses complex in New York's East Village neighborhood. The brief...
View ArticleJean Nouvel to Design Islam Museum Beside WTC
Remember the 2010 "Ground Zero mosque" controversy, led by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich? Fueled by emotion and caught in a complex web...
View ArticleTowncenter St Martin
This project includes the construction of a bandstand and an underground parking lot. By closing the stage door the space transforms into a multifunctional indoor event center. Furthermore, the...
View ArticleLogically, Paris Prepares For Climate Change With a Floating Champagne Bar
Rising sea levels and massive floods are among the risks many low lying cities around the world have to face sooner rather than later. Regardless of whether or not said cities have sea walls or levees...
View ArticleTulip Armless Chair by Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen vowed to address the "ugly, confusing, unrestful world" he observed underneath chairs and tables — the so-called "slum of legs." The Tulip Collection was designed from 1953 until its...
View ArticleDude, Check Out a Skateboard in the Shape of SANAA's New Museum
In recent years, everyone from Damien Hirst to Jeff Koons has been plastering their art on the bottom of skateboard decks in an effort to connect the art world to the elusive cool of skate culture....
View ArticleBrooklyn Heights Apartment
Old New York apartments contain layers of decisions made by different owners in different eras. When taking on a new renovation, the design process must reevaluate these decisions to craft a new space...
View ArticleThe US Pavilion at the Milan Expo Will Be a Hydroponic Hoedown
NYC-based firm Biber Architects have unveiled their design for "American Food 2.0," the US Pavilion at the Milan World Expo 2015. The feast of culinary-themed delights includes a vertical farm, a...
View ArticleGamsei
Gamsei – a cocktail bar rethought. When owner and head bartender Matthew Bax opened Gamsei in 2013 in Munich's trendy neighborhood Glockenbach, he introduced hyper-localism to a field of practice...
View Article387 Tamaki Drive
This mixed use development is located on a beachfront site in Auckland’s eastern suburbs, looking north up the Hauraki Gulf to the mouth of the Waitemata Harbor, the North Shore, and Rangitoto Island....
View ArticleA Real Pickle: Norman Foster's London Gherkin Is For Sale
Talk about getting yourself into a pickle. London's most famous cartoonishly phallic building, the Gherkin, or 30 St Mary Axe, has been put up for sale after it collapsed into receivership earlier...
View ArticleThe Secret Software Behind "Sharknado 2: The Second One"'s Special Effects
It has to be one of the best named movies of all time: "Sharknado 2: The Second One" has layers of absurdity that are rivaled only by the movie's concept itself. To create this fantastic barrage of...
View ArticleTel Aviv of the 1950s meets 2000
The clients asked that the majority of the space be kept open for maximum diversity in family activities. There is only one formal bedroom placed in the far end of the apartment while all other...
View Article8 Shape-Shifting Takes on the Timber Truss
While concrete and steel may have the illusion as the toughest construction materials, the wooden truss is enjoying a comeback for its warm aesthetic and ability to summon the inner builder within us...
View ArticlePadarie
Photography: Marcelo Donadussi Established in a two-story building, this project started with three main guidelines: order, zoning, and intelligent flows. The ground floor houses the customers’ area...
View ArticleA Mod Australian House Channels the Ghost of Mies
Mies van der Rohe might have made a mark on Modernism by pioneering the minimalist, puritan pseudo-functionalism that has proliferated into what we now know as neo-modernism, but his best...
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