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Remodel/Umbau Haus Daheim
This project consisted of the apartment, rooftop terrace, and staircase remodel of Haus Daheim, a historic landmark in Zug, Switzerland.
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Speed Dating Montreal: A Feast of Art and Architecture
Montreal's Trudeau Airport staff are barely in place when I disembark from the plane. In no time, I'm racing toward the nearly 50-year-old Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie's thesis at McGill University turned...
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House 05
This house, situated in an area of former allotments, is formed by an irregular L shape on a rectangular site that closes the construction from the street and opens it into the garden, creating a...
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9 Urban Revamps Turning Abandoned Docklands Into Dollars
British firm Foster + Partners has submitted plans for a £400 million, 73-story residential tower at Canary Wharf, part of the former dockyards on London’s Isle of Dogs. If completed, it will be the...
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Manifold House
The project site for this residence is a 7,500-square-foot cross slope lot in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. The property is located near the top of a significant hill with panoramic...
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Meet Flux, an App That Designs Sustainable Cities at Hyperspeeds
Flux was born out of Google’s moonshot factory, Google[X]; today it makes collaborative design software for the building construction industry. Now, Flux has raised $8 million in Series A financing to...
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An Architect’s Paradise: The Hidden Treasures Of Tadao Ando’s Art Island
Is there a place like heaven on earth? Well, if you are enamored by modern architecture, minimalist art, and the most beautifully finished slabs of concrete on the planet, then there might just be –...
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Apartment Houses Laimburggasse
This housing project’s surrounding is marked by the city of Graz’ urban development concept as a “highly dense inner city residential area.” This area is located within a transitional zone between the...
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Create Your Own Iconic Sign with the Hollywood Sign Generator
Want to see your name in lights? Now you can with the Hollywood Sign Generator. The entertaining web app was part of "Save Cahuenga Peak," an effort by the Trust for Public Land. In 2010 they raised...
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Horacek Dental
Horacek Dental is located in a building formerly used as wood shop in SE Portland. The project scope included inserting 4,700 square feet of exam rooms, laboratories, administrative support spaces,...
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Catch Vertigo-Inducing Views From This Water Tower Revamp
While originally an integral part of city infrastructure, we've seen water towers repurposed for new uses, from a crafty homage to de Stijl to an oh-so-chic New York pied-à-terre. In the Netherlands,...
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House in Nanakuma
This house is located in Fukuoka, Japan. Reinforced concrete was used for the basement and wood flame for two of the ground floors. Three floors exist in this layered house, created for different...
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Visit Paris's Disturbing Abandoned "Human Zoo"
Architecture and colonialism have a close relationship. The appropriation of local vernacular helped ease the tensions in some colonies, while the imposition of imperial architecture helped to...
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Kurt Geiger Headquarters
The site occupies an area of .42 acres and the building extends to 64,700 square feet, including a basement, lower ground floor, ground floor, and three above-ground floors. A 1970s office building...
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Marc Kushner on Why Good Architecture Envisions Buildings as Human Beings
Last month, PSFK held its annual conference in New York City. Keynote speaker Marc Kushner, Co-Founder and CEO of Architizer and a partner at firm HWKN (Hollwich Kushner), opened the event by speaking...
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Student Recreation Center, MSU West Plains
Funded by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency combined with a self-imposed student activity fee, this new student recreation center for Missouri State University-West Plains provides...
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Sourcing Your Own Auberge Español: A Contingent of Spanish Design Comes to ICFF
With its across-the-sea neighbor, Italy, the reigning design capital of the world, and nearby Scandinavia and London not far behind, the talents of Spanish designers often go overlooked. During the...
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10 Temporary Wooden Pavilions That Push Timber to the Limits
Temporary pavilions belong to a hybrid typology that fluctuates between art and architecture and keeps up with the ever-changing building trends. Thanks to their short life span and small scale,...
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Chez Carl Tapas & BBQ
Inspired by the fractal theory, the designer Jean de Lessard delivers an interpretation of nature’s geometry and its wonderful irregularities with the restaurant Chez Carl Tapas & BBQ. This...
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Darth Vader's Dream Cottage and More Monochrome Madness
What is it about black buildings that seems so foreboding? Is it the color's sci-fi aesthetic associations? Their burnt, expressionless appearance? Maybe all of these contribute to the desperation of...
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