Architecture
Yesterday, Apple procured yet another registered trademark certificate from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, this time covering what is, in a sense, its largest design asset yet: its architecture. As Patently Apple reports, the “Distinctive Design...
Workers and visitors to the new One World Trade Center building are leaving their personal marks on the concrete and steel of the fast-rising tower. Graffiti tributes to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have popped up on beams, walls, and...
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), thinks that architecture can be luxurious, sustainable, and community-driven all at once. The firm is recognized for combining architectural forms into visually exciting typological hybrids...
A few weeks ago, a bit of architecture news attracted an unusual amount of attention from the media. As renowned UK-based architect Zaha Hadid was seeing to the construction of her Wangjing Soho complex in Beijing — one of her 11 projects underway in China —...
The principal architect of Steven Holl Architects, Holl has received numerous awards, including the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, and has executed an immense portfolio of built work showcasing his integration of humanist theory and functional design. He and firm...
Hotel Ukraina was built in 1957 as one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters — seven skyscrapers meant to rival those of New York City. ARTINFO’s Vanessa Yurkevich speaks with the hotel’s manager about the iconic building...
Sustainability has become something of a buzzword in contemporary architecture. The future of design seems inextricably entwined with the future of our planet. Knowing this, we gamble our fate on technological advances, on innovations such as green roofs,...
Every year, buildings come and go, transforming our surroundings bit by bit, for better or for worse. This year was no exception. We witnessed historic Chinese hutongs razed, the tallest building in Europe constructed and eclipsed, and pop-up pavilions...
SINGAPORE – The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) will be adding a new wing to its landmark colonial-era buildings by 2015.Designed by Singaporean architects GreenhilLi Consultants, the new wing clad in titanium will be a distinctive architectural departure...
MIAMI BEACH — Although his day job is creative director of Muji, Japan’s less flamboyant answer to Target, designer Kenya Hara still feels the need to explore other creative pursuits, particularly those that enlist his intellectual peers to stretch the...
