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Work Smart Coworking Space
We were commissioned to design an office and co-working space for Work Smart. On the plus side, we were given a very nice 19th-century building that even featured some intact masonry on the ceiling,...
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What Do We Call the Mouth on Snøhetta's New San Francisco Tower?
Beijing’s got its Big Shorts (CCTV Tower, OMA, 2012), London’s got its Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe, Norman Foster, 2003), and al-Wakrah’s got various euphemisms for the female anatomy that just aren’t fit...
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The Platform
The Platform, a design for Baker One, is located in downtown Shanghai near the busy Nanjing Pedestrian Zone. The previous, multicolored storefront was lost amongst the chaotic signage at the corner of...
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Preservation Protesters: Modernist Macedonians Don't Want Classicism
As in the past several years, 2014 saw activists take to the streets in major protests around the world. Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement demanded open elections without new regulation by China, while...
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Nestlé Headquarters
In April, 2014, Nestlé Italy inaugurated its new headquarters in the building called U27, completed two years from the start of construction in the Milanofiori Nord area, Assago (MI). The...
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Thinking Images: New Hedrich Blessing Exhibition at the bulthaup Chicago...
It is no coincidence that the world's earliest surviving camera photograph captured building roofs as seen from Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's window at Le Gras in 1822. This rudimentary photographic...
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Karuna House
Karuna House is an ambitious sustainable design project intended to meet a combination of the world’s most demanding green building certifications. The project is the first MINERGIE-certified home in...
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#CladdingFails: The Wackiest Crumbling Façades in the World
Death by building. Some architects might think that is the ideal way to go. Buildings can kill people any number of ways, including collapses, falls from treacherous heights - one can even be eaten...
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Verge R-Series Lavatory System
Characterized by its clean, sleek, and simple design, as well as its durability and low-maintenance features, the Verge R-Series Lavatory System creates energy with dramatic angles and clean lines.
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Glendale Galleria
Our challenge has been to rethink the 1.5-million-square-foot Glendale Galleria to create a new shopping experience that encompasses the most forward-looking concepts in retail design. We have...
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Architecture on Billboards: A+Award Winners to Be Featured in Times Square!
Come May of this year, the largest and most iconic billboard in New York City’s Times Square will take a break from advertising soda and fast-fashion brands in order to promote great architecture!...
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A Material Unlike Any Other Provides New Solutions and Possibilities in El Paso
The history of the rugged landscape of Far West Texas is inscribed in its passageways. The largest city, El Paso, gets its name from the historic Spanish mission, El Paso del Norte. It was the point...
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Rue des Rogations Apartments
The site, at the corner of rue Ledru Rollin and rue des Rogations, is situated amongst an urban fabric discernible because of its typological diversity and heterogeneity of existing building volumes;...
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Here's Your Chance to Buy a Postmodern Masterpiece by Shiro Kuramata
Shiro Kuramata made some of the most intriguing Post-modern furniture designs, with a narrative and visual clarity that defines the era even as it transcends the mid-century moment. His work questions...
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Yellow Tail Sushi Bar at VIE Hotel
The award-winning VIE Hotel Bangkok enlisted Rockwell Group Europe to renovate three floors including a new bar, outdoor terrace, and restaurant. The Yellow Tail Sushi Bar, located on the third level,...
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Uber Urbanism: 5 Ways Driverless Cars Will Transform Our Cities
Steven Spielberg’s 2002 blockbuster Minority Report envisioned a number of technological advancements that collectively engendered a terrifyingly fast-paced urban environment – none more so than...
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Harbert Cottage
The project consists of the extensive remodeling of a 1950s vacation cottage located a block away from Lake Michigan in the tiny hamlet of Harbert, Michigan, which is just north of the...
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AIA Inaugurates Elizabeth Chu Richter as 91st President
Last month, under Foster + Partners’ tessellated canopy at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA, was inaugurated as the 91st President of the AIA. A Chinese-born...
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Khmeresque
Building a temple of Won Buddhism that is based on Mahayana Buddhism in Cambodia, the Hinayana Buddhist country, makes me consider the relationship between religion and architecture as a whole. In...
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"No More Yoda Heads": The Force Is Strong with MarkForged's Carbon Fiber 3D...
The ability to 3D-print objects in exceptionally strong materials like Kevlar, fiberglass, and for the first time, carbon fiber, means one thing: “No more Yoda heads,” according to MarkForged creative...
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