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Brooks + Scarpa has shared photos of its recently completed design for the Youth Sports Complex in Pompano Beach, Florida. The concept of the 10-acre project centers around The Field House, an enclosed 4,100-square-foot pavilion structure at the center of the park. Approached from the north... 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. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Color. Tip: Use the handy FOLLOW feature to... View full entry
Pantone has selected "Peach Fuzz" as its official Color of the Year for 2024. Twelve months after announcing "Viva Magenta" as its selection for 2023, the New Jersey-based company continued with the springtime palette with a light and bright color they claim will have an impact on an increasingly... View full entry
MVRDV has completed work on a vibrant new conversion project in Berlin called HAUS 1 that reworked an aging office building from 1997 into a new hub for innovation and community. Other than the eye-catching canary color finish, the project is visually dominated by an extended grand external... View full entry
Pantone has announced Viva Magenta as its Color of the Year for 2023, ending a (mostly) blue-gray-hued streak that’s predominated for the past three years. Offering a “new signal of strength” that’s useful for “writing a new narrative,” the eye-catching shade of red can set the... View full entry
Heavyweight, humanist, intellectual hero, and pioneer of the high-tech style. Such are the remembrances of a beloved architectural icon seen in the outpouring of tributes circulating on social media following the death of Richard Rogers in London over the weekend. Reminiscent of the Spanish... View full entry
Pantone’s much-heralded Color of the Year has been announced, with “Very Peri” taking the top billing as pastels continue to dominate the annual list. The lilac-esque shade of blue is supposedly embiotic of the shifts in cultural attitudes and individual expression as we move towards a more... View full entry
More and more, amid the pastels and the gold-leaf embellishments, you see a striking juxtaposition: 125-year-old houses painted in the tones of a cold war-era nuclear warhead or a dormant cinder cone. In neighborhoods like the Mission and the Haight, this phenomenon reads to some residents as an erasure of the Latino community or of the lingering counterculture. — The Guardian
Gentrification has authored a wholesale change to the city brought on by what New York’s outgoing mayor Bill de Blasio once referred to as a “crisis of desirability.” Like the Big Apple, many highly-paid workers have begun returning to their former spendy enclaves, bucking a trend that... View full entry
A design world arms race to make the blackest black has intensified this week after an artist revealed his latest creation called Blink. Stuart Semple created the ink over a period of two years after launching a precursor called Black 3.0 in 2019. The artist had been reacting to the... View full entry
This post is brought to you by AF New York What does an all-white room signify to you? For me, it’s a fraught mix of sanitarium/hospital, a sort of blank slate for digital reality a la The Matrix, and a vaguely heavenly connotation—like something from a film in which Morgan Freeman... View full entry
Scientists in the US have developed a paint significantly "whiter than the whitest paint currently available".
Tests carried out by researchers at Purdue University on their "ultra-white" paint showed it reflected more than 98% of sunlight.
That suggests, the scientists say, that it could help save energy and fight climate change.
— BBC
The paint's whiteness opens up a range of cooling features that, applied at an industrial scale, could limit the built environment's contributing effect to global warming and its dependency on traditional air conditioning. "If you were to use this paint to cover a roof area of about 1,000 square... View full entry
The announcement of the Pantone Color of the Year seems to cause the media to stir every year. While everyone jumps on the hype showcasing how "excited" they are, how do color trends impact architects? Don't get me wrong; I love seeing the use of color in projects. The study of color theory... 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. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Color. Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to... View full entry
Walking into Yinka Ilori’s west London studio from the drab suburban business park outside is to enter an oasis. Floor-to-ceiling shelving is lined with the brightly coloured, upcycled chairs, painted or upholstered in West African fabrics, that made Ilori’s name when he first left college. [...]
“My work is very much about inclusivity and how people enjoy design,” says the 33-year-old.
— The Guardian
Emerging British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori in conversation with The Guardian's Observer Design magazine. Asked about his growing courage to also take on architectural-scale projects, such as his collaboration with architects Pricegore on the 2019 Dulwich Pavilion The Colour Palace, Ilori... View full entry
Color plays an important role in architecture. Whether it's to create a mood or embellish on an interior's detail colors helps architects and designers convey many things, some have made entire careers out of color and its uses. Just ask Verner Panton, Josef Albers, or Paul Klee, color and... View full entry
