While Saarinen’s groundbreaking works gave him international prominence, many people don’t realize that his earliest architectural and design laboratory was in Michigan. — New York Times
John L. Dorman, for the travel section of the New York Times explored Michigan's modern architecture, and more specifically, buildings by modern architect Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero. He reports visiting the Saarinen's house designed by Eliel and the first buildings realized by Eero, such as... View full entry
Water management was a major theme in the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 Latin America regional competition — from access to clean water and sanitation to flood management. Out of 763 entries, the jury selected a winning project for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, as well as four... View full entry
David Marks, who suffered a long battle with cancer, passed away Friday morning at the age of 64. The Jewish architect was the innovative visionary behind fanciful projects such as the London Eye, the British Airways i360 observation tower, the Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens, and the University of... View full entry
Construction of Canada's tallest building has started. With 85 stories and 306 meters of height, the One, designed by Forster+Partners will host commercial spaces, a 175 room hotel, and 60 floors of condominiums and multi-story penthouses. Rendering of Toronto's future skyline. Picture from... View full entry
Fifteen years after IKEA demolished part of it for a parking lot, a Marcel Breuer-designed office building in New Haven has become a stage for art. [...]
Now, Burr is building on those explorations in his current show, Body/Building. Spread out over the first floor of Breuer’s gutted local icon, the show uses objects that weave together a story about himself, the site, and his city.
— citylab.com
Tom Burr / New Haven, Phase 1, 2017, installation view, Bortolami, New Haven New Haven-native, and now New York-based, artist Tom Burr tells the story of one of the city's most iconic, and controversial, buildings in his current show Body/Building, now on display inside the gutted belly of the... View full entry
Happy October! Wondering where design-inclined folks are gathering around Greater Los Angeles? This week, Guy Nordenson will receive the 2017 Neutra Award at Cal Poly Pomona, Studio Fuksas currently has a video exhibition at the WUHO Gallery, and Sou Fujimoto will kick off UCLA... View full entry
Like their Scandinavian neighbors, Finland is known for its revolutionary style of design that combines functionality with natural materials and organic forms. Every year, the Finnish Association of Architecture celebrates this distinctive style with the Finlandia Prize for... View full entry
New York City's Archtober is now in full swing! From October 1-31, the citywide festival celebrates the significance of architecture and design in everyday life. For the seventh year in a row, Archinect & Bustler are proud to present Archtober's... View full entry
In April, construction began on Hudson Yards’ Vessel, a 150-foot-tall climbable steel structure designed by Heatherwick Studio and its 100,000 pound-components were put in place by crane. Construction on the $200 million “public landmark” has now hit its halfway mark. The structure includes 154 geometric-lattice linked flights of stairs, 80 landings and will able to hold 1,000 visitors. — 6sqft
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Though the financial crisis put a crimp in Masdar City’s ambitions too, it's now expanding around its compact urban core, with a new apartment complex nearing completion and plans for 5,000 homes. And the international publicity the project received from the start helped break the resistance to green ideas throughout the UAE — National Geographic
For their Urban Expeditions (Exploring Sustainable City Solutions Around the World) series, Robert Kunzig examines the challenges and opportunities facing Dubai, which by 2050, plans to have the world's smallest carbon footprint. View full entry
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The overall look and the customer reviews are not so great, but, if you always dreamed of owning a container that has French doors, Amazon now has it for you! With the rising popularity of the tiny house movement, who knows, we might see those popping around our neighborhoods. Not available on... View full entry
It’s this learned self-confidence that has become the center of Giulia’s graphic collages, allowing her to push boundaries regarding sexuality and censorship of the female form.
By strategically placing architectural elements onto images of the female body, Giulia is ever so slightly bypassing Instagram’s strict censorship rules, but while the Brooklyn-based artist’s near-pornographic collages are technically safe for IG, she says it hasn’t been an easy road on the platform.
— Highsnobiety
Highsnobiety interviews Giulia, the provocative Brooklyn-based artist who is better known by her Instagram handle @scientwehst. When asked what inspired her to create erotic collages by inserting architectural images in place of female genitalia: "It started with me creating random pornographic... View full entry
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. (Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archinect profiles!)... View full entry
The Chicago Architectural Club's annual Burnham Prize had another successful run for 2017. This time around, entrants developed speculative architectural interventions for the dome of the abandoned St. Stephen Church in Chicago.At the end of the competition, Sonja Cheng, Jennifer Ly... View full entry