CATEGORIES

Beyond The Punch List

Post-occupancy evaluations are still not common practice. What might accelerate their adoption?

Lighting In The Spotlight

After gaining international clout with her lamp designs and role as artistic director of Brokis, Lucie Koldova has landed the prestigious 2018 Das Haus installation.

Not Your Grandfather's Cabin

The quintessential woodsy getaway has become a cultural and architectural obsession of late. But why?

Adaptive Solution

How do you solve a problem like Old Street Roundabout? In recent decades, the area surrounding this busy intersection to the east of London’s city center has undergone rapid gentrification, but the roundabout itself is still best known for its chaotic and dangerous whirlwind of traffic.

Incarceration With Compassion

Overlooking Malibu, in the midst of the vineyard-dotted Santa Monica Mountains, lies Los Angeles County’s $54 million wager on the future of youth incarceration.

Design For Aging - Exchange

A lush center for intergenerational connection suggests a new housing paradigm for Singapore.

Design For Aging-Care

In Newport, Wales, a RIBA-awarded hospice is tailored to the needs of patients, loved ones, and staff.

Design For Aging-Autonomy

In order to create products and services that stay relevant as people age, designers cannot fall into the trap of trying to control every aspect of peoples lives, or assuming that seniors are a monolithic group who share the same needs. As the solutions here show, there is plenty more work to be done to develop sensitive designs that support older adults while preserving their autonomy.

Mindful Spaces

At CannonDesign, a studio is dedicated to bringing behavioral-health-care patients back to their everyday lives.

Please Touch

For more than half a century, creatives have attempted to breakthe grip of the master sense, cracking open the experientialworld in the process.

Bridging The Divide

Once the center of controversy, El Equipo Mazzantis innovative Bicentenario Park is now the center of Bogots historic core.

Hospitality Quanto Basta

Misi, a new restaurant in Brooklyn, puts the art of pasta making on display.

Materials - Either-Or

The Suave collection from Vondom takes inspiration from an unlikely source: car manufacturing.

Architecture

White Light.

Workplace

Industrial Reboot.

Flooring

Laid Back.

Hospitality Vaulted Over

A new restaurant for a retirement community in England experiments with materials and typological precedents despite its small budget.

History - New York Modern

The story of architectural Modernism in the city goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

New Realities

A kinetic, “human-actuated” pavilion comes to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Environment Trade-Off

There are nearly 700,000 street trees in New York City, and all of them— London plane trees, Bradford pears, lindens—are working every hour of every day to sequester carbon dioxide and capture stormwater.

Piling It Up?

The blob ostensibly obliterated the culture of tectonics within architecture, but it was a short-lived fad. Interest has shifted again toward a loosely “aformal” approach —the pile. What are the consequences of architects

Character

Architecture can be funny, eliciting a laugh or a smirk. It can have a backstory. It can be a in an urban drama.But how far do you push it?

Back To Basics

At this year’s NeoCon, textile companies looked forward by returning to the roots of making textiles. Traditional and modern weaving techniques, the return of pure color, and solid basics (with a twist) were all jumping-off points for collections tailored to the needs of today’s contract settings. “Resimercial”—the crossover influence of the residential look and feel on commercial interiors—continued in full force. As we celebrate New York Textile Month, the citywide festival designed to highlight textile creativity and promote textile awareness, we showcase a range of offerings from our industry favorites.

Tokyo

Ahead of its hosting duties for the 2020 olympic games, japan’s capital is endeavoring to shift its reputation from megacity to one that’s more human-focused. 

Melbourne

Australia’s creative capital is galvanizing its citizens to help make its future a more livable one.

Development Auto Motives

Los Angeles’s slow but visible transition to “carless living” helped shape LOHA’s pedestrian-friendly Sunset Strip housing.

Spectrum

An essential survey of architecture and design today

Festival

Northern Exposure

In Production - Flying Tiger

In Production - Flying Tiger

Building Details A Balcony For All Seasons

Where open space is a hot commodity, NanaWall brings the outside in.