Rough Brick and GRC Create a Layered Street Facade Kawamura Electric’s new headquarters in central Nagoya brings together workplace, culture, nature, and social interaction within a seven-story building. Designed by KIAS as a new base for the company, whose origins are in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, the project accommodates offices alongside an art gallery and…
a colorful world outside Mexico city Quetzalcóatl Park, located about an hour outside of Mexico City, is the sprawling, serpentine creation of Javier Senosiain Aguilar. Although started years ago in 2007, the park is still a work in progress. The water fixture, mosaiced and shaped like the head of a snake, spews water into…
JPG Print Shop Reframes Fabrika’s Industrial Interior in Tbilisi Designed by Sandro Kvirikadze, JPG Print Shop transforms an existing Soviet industrial space at Tbilisi’s Fabrika into a contemporary environment for graphic design and urban culture. Plywood structures, stainless steel, and retro-futurist forms introduce a new architectural layer within the existing space, creating a dialogue…
FOUR TIMBER BLOCKS of SOCIAL HOUSING IN IBIZA Stefano Boeri Architetti has won the competition for Sa Casa, a new affordable housing complex in Ibiza built around a modular timber system. Developed for Spanish public housing agency Casa 47, the proposal divides roughly 190 apartments among four residential volumes, leaving the center of the…
The Black School, a community arts organization founded in 2016, opened The Black Schoolhouse in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans to foster creative learning and cultural exchange, and improve The post LOT-EK designs a shipping container schoolhouse in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Kicking off the month of October, the Facades+ conference series returns to Denver at the Westin Denver Downtown. The event’s program is developed in part with POPULOUS: Fentress Studios co-chairs: The post Facades+ comes to Denver on October 1 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Flushing Meadows hosts the U.S. Open this week. On September 9 American tennis player Ben Shelton outlasted defending Spanish champion Carlos Alcaraz in a five-set quarterfinal that lasted til 3:33 The post U.S. Tennis Association announces Future Courts student design competition winners appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
While many of us have wondered what distinguishes “narrative art” from regular old art, George Lucas has known perfectly well all along. With an $11 million budget, Lucas wrote and The post The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD and Studio-MLA, offers a heady brew of fantasy and reality appeared first on The…
Morpholio Trace, the architect’s favorite drawing app, has built a loyal following the old-fashioned way: one designer, one iPad, one sketch at a time. Now that following is about to The post Morpholio Trace scales up with new Trace for Business offering appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Jerome “Jerry” Haber, cofounder of W&W Glass and a longtime figure in New York’s glazing and construction industry, died on September 6 at the age of 85. Haber dedicated more The post Jerry Haber, cofounder of W&W Glass, dies at 85 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.