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Hot Spots: Mapping the World's Most Photographed Locations
In a colorful gradient of purples, reds, and yellows, the website Sightsmap reveals the most photographed places around the globe. Broad patches of purple coincide with a lesser amount of photographs,...
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Nuvola di Luce
Nuvola di Luce is an unconventional armchair designed for Natevo that lights up by means of a luminous floor panel. The steel frame is covered in a mesh fabric, and when switched on fills the room...
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Arup's Downtown Los Angeles Satellite Office
Arup’s new satellite office in downtown Los Angeles provides a flexible and occasional work environment that follows the activity-based working (ABW) model. An activity-based workplace decreases...
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A Blade Runner Replicant Rises In Chicago
When William Schopf, owner of the Chicago movie house and foreign-flick distributor Music Box Films, decided to put roots down in Chicago’s up-and-coming West Loop district, he wanted to take a...
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Writer's Shed
Commissioned by an author/illustrator to design and build a ’writer’s shed,’ WSD took advantage of their multi-disciplinary backgrounds and acted as designers, project managers, and lead contractors....
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Bohet House
This rural residence was built in the hills of Tilff, a village located in the region of Liège, Belgium. The client requested a house with a living area of just over 3,200 square feet that would...
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Bauhaus Beauty: Marcel Breuer's Pecs Desk Makes a Comeback
First designed in 1951 for his New Haven, Connecticut home, Marcel Breuer's Pecs desk (named after the Hungarian town where he was born) exudes modernist Bauhaus ideals. Its neat form, composed of...
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Visit Iconic Album Covers with Google Street View
Some of the best art is being produced in a very cool new place. While Berlin or even Detroit may come to mind, you won't have to go far to experience the visual Renaissance that's happening in...
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Triple Threat: Amersfoort's New 3-Pronged Cantilevering Cultural Center
The small city of Amersfoort, the Netherlands is rife with cultural institutions, such as the general city library, an exposition center, the heritage archives, and a school for dance, music, and the...
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Spring Learning Center
Spring is a newly established learning center for children in which the designer eschewed fairytale cliches such as rainbow colors and cartoon characters and sought to look at the space from a child's...
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Milan Report: A Midcentury Design for Today's Small Spaces
While the recurring dilemma among contemporary architects is how to fit good design into increasingly small spaces, they might just need to learn a thing or two from their elders. Italian architect...
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Kimbell Art Museum Expansion
Originally designed by Louis Kahn in 1972, the Kimbell Art Museum’s new building by RPBW was constructed to accommodate the museum’s growing exhibition and education programs, while the Kahn building...
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Autodesk's New Collaboration Playground
Autodesk recently opened a workshop on San Francisco's Pier 9, which will serve as a “maker” and R & D facility, as well as a demonstration space for Autodesk’s software. The dynamic environment...
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Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University
Perkins+Will, in collaboration with Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners) designed the campus of Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The campus offers...
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Boathouse Home Office
This three-bedroom apartment in Aberdeen Larvotto was refurbished and transformed into a live/work space for a French couple with three cats. The new concept demolished two existing partition walls to...
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How Arts Councils Are Impacting Architecture
In a “one percent” world of concentrated wealth and its corresponding private philanthropy, the facts of patronage are often incomplete. Naming opportunities can sometimes eclipse the anonymous...
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Old is the New New: A+ Renovations Mix Past and Present
Our A+ Awards winners have been announced, and the victors stand out as some of the finest projects in the world. But the finalists and special mentions have also created projects that are exciting...
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Royal Wolf – Melbourne HQ
Royal Wolf is a specialist in the hire, sale, and modification of new and refurbished shipping containers. Utilizing the steel fabrication skill sets of this company, Room11 took a shipping container...
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San Francisco's Insane Hills Are No Match for This House
When a San Francisco couple purchased a vacant plot of sloped land just steps from San Francisco's Dolores Park, Craig Steely Architecture was presented with a series of challenges. Views of downtown...
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Jesolo Lido Pool Villa
The Jesolo Lido Pool Villa is a custom-designed, prefabricated wood structure that was built and furnished in only six months. High energy-saving standards have been applied to the shell to guarantee...
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