What once was an industrial neighborhood focused on the brewing of American Beer had fallen into disrepair. But the vision of a local nonprofit and some clever designs have reclaimed America's industrial past from dereliction.READ»
While the economic crunch has frozen cranes at project lots
around the world, it hasn't stalled creativity. Witness the 704 entries submitted to the World Architecture Festival's fourth annual competition.READ»
Sasha Sosno has built an artistic career by “obliterating” art. The French New Realist has sliced up a bronze bust and reassembled it with slabs of stone separating each piece. The result: Venus Sandwich. His next project: ...READ»
Prime your gimmick radar: Adidas has moved into a new research facility that’s being billed as an architectural visualization of shoelaces. The “laces” are white walkways that crisscross the interior and “tie the built volume ...READ»
Like many medium-sized cities around the world, Villahermosa, Mexico, could benefit from a shiny new museum to draw tourists and provide public space for its residents. But architect Enrique Norten and his firm TEN Arquitectos have ...READ»
In the aftermath of the riots, a couple of noble London architects are injecting some guerrilla design into the cleanup process, and helping those who can't rebuild.READ»
Tuesday night, as a crowd of toffs celebrated the opening of BMW Guggenheim Lab’s first installation in the East Village, a drunken man passed out on the sidewalk, lying in a heap within sight of the revelers on the other side ...READ»
Modern additions on Victorians usually look terrible. The cool efficiencies of contemporary architecture just don’t gibe with all that gingerbread crap. But the clients of architect Craig Steely were adamant: They wanted to preserve ...READ»
There are skinny houses. And then there is Jakub Szczęsny’s Keret House, which could make Calista Flockhart look like a fatty. At its most generous, the proposed place, in Warsaw, Poland, will clock in at 4 feet wide. At its ...READ»
Earlier this year, Matali Crasset finished her first architectural commission -- Dar Hi, a luxury ecolodge in Tunisia that one could mistake for an apartment complex on Luke Skywalker’s planet of Tatooine. The French designer’s ...READ»
Pierre Andre Senizergues is the owner of Sole Technology, a skateboard footwear and apparel company that produces brands such as Etnies. He’s also a former world champion boarder. And now the 48-year-old entrepreneur has ...READ»
At a time when libraries are swapping their beloved stacks for cold digital repositories, one city in Japan has built something downright radical: a public library with real, live books!
The library has precisely one decorative ...READ»
The House In The Outskirts Of Brussels by Belgian architects Samyn and Partners is like two houses in one. On one side, you’ve got exotic foliage sprouting wildly off a curving facade; on the other, a wall of flat, symmetrical ...READ»
China is where perfectly good architects go to do perfectly bizarre architecture. Which might help explain the horrifying aesthetic of the Shanghai studio of Taranta Creations.China is where perfectly good architects go to do ...READ»
Despite the premium placed on real estate in our overcrowded cities, one space remains woefully underutilized: the roof. And we’re not just talking about installing green roofs and urban farms but finding creative ways to spruce up ...READ»
