TED Speaker Julian Treasure Calls For “Designing With Our Ears”
How many times have you gone to a beautifully designed restaurant but can’t hear the person you are sitting across from? Or how often do you have trouble understanding a flight attendant as they speak...
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“Animated Tower” Creates Analog Pixel Display Using Building Facade
Animated GIF via Un gif dans ta gueule Tumblr In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the University of Health Sciences (HESAV) in Switzerland, artist Guillaume Reymond (otherwise known as...
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Brights Lights, Big City
AA Arena w/GKD Mediamesh Plaza, Miami A building’s signage can make or break the best architecture. Fortunately, Arquitectonica, the architects behind the American Airlines Arena in Miami, wisely...
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Architecture Students Demolishing Their Studio Models, Brought To You By...
You know the feeling. Forty hours without sleep. Fresh X-Acto “wounds”. That nausea-induced state fed by a steady diet of energy drinks, pizza, and sugar, sugar, sugar. Final review is over, and all...
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Helmut Jahn Wins AIA Chicago’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Last week, at AIA Chicago’s Designnight, legendary starchitect Helmut Jahn received the institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Black Spectacles, an online architectural software education site, put...
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Awesome Time-Lapse Video: 24 Hours In Olson Kundig’s Roof-Raising Beachfront...
Photo courtesy of Kevin Scott/Olson Kundig Architects What if you could lift up your roof as easily as you can open a door? Olson Kundig Architects principal Tom Kundig took the idea of indoor-outdoor...
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For Architects Of All Ages: “The ABC Of Architects”
Children grow up knowing the names of famous sports players, pop singers, and cartoon characters. But what about notable architects? Where’s the respect? Architecture is rarely part of formal...
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How Do You Make Semiconductor Chips Sexy? Ask Ciel Hunter And Julia Kaganskiy!
Photo: via Southern Sprout Karen Wong is the Deputy Director at the New Museum and an Architizer A+ Awards juror. In an ongoing series, she profiles the latest and most interesting architects,...
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Video: Explore Steven Holl’s Sliced Porosity Block
Photo: Hufton + Crow It’s remarkable that all three million square feet of Steven Holl’s Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu ever managed to get built at all. The fact that is was is a testament to Holl...
View ArticleMoMA Curator (And A+ Juror) Paola Antonelli On Stephen Colbert!
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Paola Antonelli—MoMA’s Architecture and Design senior curator, A+ juror, and generally awesome...
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‘Evolucio’ By Onionlab Deconstructs Building And Puts It Back Together Again
‘Evolució’ by Onionlab Like the White House in the film Independence Day, the Museum of Art and History in Geneva [Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève] exploded earlier this month. And then it...
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Watch 6,500 Silkworms 3D-Print A Silk Pavilion At MIT
Long before the MakerBot hit its stride as a favored source for jewelry, chocolate goodies, and even hermit crab shells, silkworms had been 3D-printing their own houses for ages. In their pupal stage,...
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Believe It Or Not, This Three-Acre Glass Eco-Bubble Is Not A Set For A...
A few decades before Al Gore inconvenienced us with An Inconvenient Truth, the concept of sustainability had some very different connotations. In the 1970s and 80s, society grew interested in...
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Learn The History Of Western Architecture In Under 15 Minutes
So you’ve only got a few minutes before leaving for that dinner party—you know, one of those semi-informal gatherings of individuals who claim to have enough time in their exciting lives to read lots...
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Kaleidoscopic Time-Lapse Videos Turn Cityscapes Into Trippy Abstractions
There are an infinite number of ways to experience a city. The miracle, one might say, lies in the way all these idiosyncratic views, routines, and experiences coexist (There’s a whole academic field...
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