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Setting the mood and tone of a space is a crucial component to the overall design of a space. Creating an inviting yet alluring interior space is no easy feat. Whether it be a renovation project or the birth of a new space fostering the ultimate user experience, interior architects are an integral... View full entry
The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced a call for proposals to solicit feedback and concepts for the next version of LEED certification standards. According to the announcement, the organization is looking to expand and improve upon its recently... View full entry
This post is brought to you by the Interior Architecture Department at Woodbury University School of Architecture Returning to Los Angeles, the Unmentionables Symposium holds its second symposium event on April 6th. Organized by the Interior Architecture Department at Woodbury School of... View full entry
The Unmentionables Symposium is returning to Los Angeles to explore rarely mentioned critical ideas in spatial practice and theory. Following the inaugural symposium in April 2017, the second iteration provokes creators and scholars to reconsider the symposium format itself. As a space and event... View full entry
This post is brought to you by the Piet Zwart Institute. The Piet Zwart Institute houses the international Master programs of the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Named after the pioneering Dutch designer, Piet Zwart, who worked experimentally across media and... View full entry
The interiors of the space create mood, ambience, and help fulfill the functionality of the structure. From the renovation of internal spaces, color schemes, furnishings, fixtures, and lighting interior architects are an integral part of the architectural community. Below are 9 firms offering job... View full entry
Portman was a pioneer of the devices with which somber modernism was given glitz: mirror-glass, wall-climbing glass lifts, sky bridges, swooping curves. He described some gaudy candelabra he put around a piano stage in the Atlanta Marriott Marquis as a “homage to Liberace”. His buildings became known for their “Jesus moments”, those times when, emerging from a deliberately understated entry into some architectural emulation of the Grand Canyon, a visitor would reliably exclaim, “Jesus!” — The Guardian
Rowan Moore pens a piece on the lasting impact of the late John Portman's other-worldly buildings in Atlanta, which were known for eliciting “Jesus moments” from surprised visitors and also described as “Disneyland for adults” by less-impressed critics. View full entry
The V&A Dundee Museum opens its doors tomorrow with the 3D Festival, a free two-day event on September 14 and 15. The grand opening will include performances, dance, design, and lighting collaborations. V&A Dundee Museum by Kengo Kuma, located in Scotland. ©HuftonCrowV&A Dundee... View full entry
A drawing in [Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's] 1883 manuscript Free Space might be the first depiction of humans in orbital weightlessness. Four figures float in a spherical spaceship, each pointed in a different direction, disoriented... This basic design — primary thruster, secondary retro rockets, axial gyros for orientation — has been used by all crewed Russian and American spacecraft to date, including the International Space Station. — placesjournal.org
Looking back at the history of outer space design, Fred Scharmen brings past innovations into the present with applications for our future. Starting back in 1883 with the first design for humans in outer space (seen below), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky imagined a new way of thinking about spatial... 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
For too long, the issues of gender, disability, and user-centeredness have been relegated to the far margins of architectural history. — Places Journal
Places columnist Barbara Penner uncovers a parallel narrative to the rise of flexible home design — often attributed to a handful of progressive postwar designers — in the history of home economics. She explores the flexible domestic spaces created by designers such as Lillian Moller... View full entry
David Chipperfield Architects' Nobel Center, criticized by some as dominating, has developed its final design for the interior of this new Stockholm space. The firm added a number of new public exhibition areas that will be free of charge with a design aimed at strengthening the vertical... 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 collection spans buildings from 1920 to 1970 and showcases the work of some of the city’s most illustrious architects and designers, including Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, and Luigi Caccia Dominioni, as well as non-pedigreed architecture of equal impact and interest. — T Magazine
Dan Thawley reviews "a beautiful architectural book" called 'Ingressi di Milano', by German editor Karl Kolbit. Photo © Delfino Sisto Legnani Photo © Delfino Sisto Legnani Via Taschen View full entry
Minimalism is just another form of conspicuous consumption, a way of saying to the world: ‘Look at me! Look at all of the things I have refused to buy!’ — guardian
I always thought domestic minimalism requires maximum household help, made of mostly immigrant domestic workers. So, whenever I see those shelter magazine pictures, I whisper "sonsofbitches, they are hiding something." View full entry
