The Metropolitan Museum vs. ISIS: "A Mindless Attack on Human Understanding"
Architecture and especially historical monuments or statues can often become implicated into war and cultural cleansing. Unfortunately, that usually means simply wiping them off the face of the earth...
View ArticleYorkville Residence
AUDAX reclaimed an architectural relic from the late ‘70s and transformed it into an ultra-modern, crisp, and light-filled home for a young bachelor. The redesign of this 3,700-square-foot split-level...
View ArticleSearching for Utopia: Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick Unveil the Googleplex
Welcome to the future! The Googleplex is coming, and it’s exactly how you imagined it: a bustling metropolis full of luscious parks, cyber cafés, public art, cycle paths and yoga classes… all encased...
View ArticleApple Martini (2710)
All Caesarstone quartz surfaces are easy to clean and maintain. Our non-porous quartz surfaces require minimal maintenance - there’s no need to seal or wax the surface.
View Article05.05-Bad-Badalona
A volume created from the urban needs arising from the emergence of a new promenade, a change in the section of road. In a temporary space somewhere between what was and what is wanted, the building...
View ArticleThis App Turns the City Into a Photoshop File
Imagine if you could take Photoshop out into the streets and use it to change the world around you. Shrub, Linked by Air’s drawing app for iOS, lets you do precisely that, or at least part of that....
View ArticleGather Restaurant
District Hall, Boston’s public innovation center, is the first building completed at Seaport Square, Boston Global Investors’ 23-acre waterfront development. Located in the heart of Seaport Square, it...
View ArticleThe Architecture of Dr. Seuss, a Brief History
Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, was a prolific architectural thinker. His experimental drawings show speculative domestic architectures: houses and pueblo-like villages with oddly...
View ArticleAlvik Tower
Alvik Tower is a sculptural, 18-story landmark residential complex located on the waterfront in Bromma, known as “garden city” in the Stockholm metropolitan area, with close proximity to Lake Mälaren...
View ArticleThe Studio by Ashton Woods, Phoenix
The Studio by Ashton Woods inspires new homeowners in their selection of Ashton Woods Homes’ finishes, fixtures, and fittings. The 6,100-square-foot showroom maximizes the product selection process...
View ArticleReducing Le Corbusier, Zaha Hadid, and Peter Zumthor to "Fragments of Light"
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light,” Le Corbusier wrote in his 1923 manifesto Towards a New Architecture. The same can be said of the...
View ArticleInduction Introduction: Recharge with IKEA's New Wireless Furniture
Have you ever been lost in IKEA? There are new unofficial regroup locations that are perfect for “recharging.” Starting in April, you will be able to charge your phone with new IKEA furniture. And, if...
View ArticleIllkirch-Graffenstaden City Hall
The rehabilitation and extension of the city hall aims to connect three very different buildings: one dating back to the 19th century and two others dating back to the 1970s. By adding a new reception...
View ArticleSpec Perspective: USAI Lighting Carries the Torch
In the early 1980s, Bonnie Littman was working at Chemical Bank, as her sister Sandy was launching a new decorating lighting company. To steward that brand’s meteoric growth, Bonnie became president...
View ArticleAL13™ Wood Line Finishes
AL13™ offers aluminum panels in 10 different woodgrains: Black Walnut, Swiss Pear, Teak, Brazilian Teak, Tirano Walnut, Harvard Maple, Beach Oak, Fruitwood, Applewood, and Dark Oak.
View ArticleFit for a Pharaoh: Egypt Plans Its First New Pyramid in 4,500 years
One of the most iconic architectural typologies in history is set to be resurrected in Cairo! Four and half millennia after the Pyramids of Giza were completed on the outskirts of the city, the...
View ArticleAlexander Graham Bell Elementary School Addition
This project for Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School consists of a new addition on the south side of the existing school and specific renovations on the interior of the existing rated historic...
View ArticleDIY Roller Coasters, Coming to a Backyard Near You
The Mall of America is home to one of the largest indoor theme parks in the world, and, like any good theme park, it has a roller coaster. The tracks swoop and swirl around under an enormous space...
View ArticleDavid Yurman Headquarters I
Lynch Eisinger Design has designed the new headquarters, design studio, and prototype fabrication shop for a New York City-based jewelry company. Together with the client's in-house design team and...
View ArticleRenaissance Renderings: Drawing Geometric Inspiration from Nature
At every point in history, there has been a strong correlation between form and scientific knowledge. During the Renaissance, platonic solids were thought to be the basis of all matter: tetrahedron of...
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