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"Constructing Worlds" Exhibit at the Barbican Will Make You Fall in Love With...
The "Constructing Worlds" exhibition, curated by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone and designed by Brussels-based architecture studio KGDVS, touches on the work of 18 photographers and artists working...
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A New Snarkitecture Chocolate Sculpture Indulges Your Sweet Tooth
The normally quotidian objects that emerge from Snarkitecture’s Brooklyn studio are always slightly amiss in one way or another. There’s the off-kilter slant of their coasters and lighting, and then...
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Facet
Facet is built directly next to the A2 highway, which is one of the major traffic arteries in the Netherlands. The facade of Facet functions as a double noise-protection barrier for the residential...
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25 Years of Keeping Clean With Philippe Starck
Over the last quarter-century, Philippe Starck has gone from enfant terrible of the design world to its best-known rainmaker, and again from exiled critic to elder statesman. While public opinion may...
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FF2400
A Pull-out / Pull-down Faucet in chrome finish. This kitchen faucet is part of a series with a matching bar faucet (FFBP2400), point-of-use faucets, and soap dispenser. Available in chrome, old world...
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Renewable Energy Is Quickly Becoming Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
Architecture has an energy problem, whether we want to admit it or not. Of all the energy consumed in the US, almost half (47.6 percent) is used by the building sector. Compare that to transportation...
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Restroom in Yawatahama Roadside Station
This building is a restroom building built in the roadside station of Yawatahama City, Ehime Prefecture. Yawatahama is a town enclosed by surrounding mountains. There are also terraced fields of...
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Histria Aromatica Homestead
This project is the "Histria Aromatica" Homestead in Bale, Croatia. The "Histria Aromatica" homestead is the center of a unique agricultural-tourist complex planted with indigenous, medicinal, and...
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The 6 Least Glamorous Buildings from Big-Name Architects
Architects are often known for their more high-profile projects: skyscrapers, museums, chapels, destination buildings. Yet the glamorous projects aren't the only ones that big-name architects put...
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Napa Valley Residence
The hills and vineyards of Napa Valley provide the setting for this contemporary residence, which is composed of a main house, guest house, and garage. The main house has three distinct pavilions,...
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South Surrey Recreation + Arts Centre
Site and Context: The design strategies developed for the site build on the significant natural attributes of the immediate context while addressing several significant problems and missed...
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5 Paradigm Shifts Necessary to Make Cities More Sustainable
"Wouldn’t the city be better if each citizen had a little bit of park woven into their life, their incidental life?" Charles McKinney, principal urban designer at New York City Department of Parks and...
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SA Family Graveyard
The graveyard is a metaphor that contains death and appreciates earthly life. In the process of temporal hustle and bustle, we often seem to overlook the fact that this planet is only a threshold...
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7 New Museums That Expand the Vocabulary of Cultural Architecture
Whether incorporating hanging gardens into projects or constructing temporary, seasonal structures, designers have in recent years expanded expectations of what exhibition spaces can do, as they are...
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Create Your Own Kaleidoscopic Surfaces With Infinite Possibilities
At 101 years old, Formica Corporation has a decidedly fresh approach to creating laminates — namely giving its customers the option of designing for themselves. Last year, the company launched Formica...
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The Brook
The Brook, a six-story building in the South Bronx, provides permanent supportive housing to low-income workers, the homeless, and individuals with mental illness. Formerly on an empty lot, the...
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Tribeca Loft
The loft occupies the sixth floor of a recently completed eight-story building in Tribeca. The project involved the interior renovation of the entire 3,500-square-foot space. The existing building,...
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In Memoriam: Paul Katz, Celebrated Architect and Managing Partner at Kohn...
Paul Katz, Managing Partner at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates since 1984 and an expert on how buildings fit into their infrastructural context, died November 20 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in...
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Klyde Warren Park
Built over the existing Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Klyde Warren Park serves as an important pedestrian connection between the Central Business District, Uptown, and the burgeoning Arts District in...
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U-R-A to Celebrate Moscow's Visual Legacy in New Subway Station
Earlier this year, the city of Moscow launched a design competition for the commission to design two of the city's metro stations. The project's goal was to revive the tradition of unique subway...
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