J. Mayer H. has recently completed their new residential building, dubbed JOH3, in downtown Berlin. Located in Johannisstraße in Mitte near Museum Island and Friedrichstrasse, the building is charact...
‘Tis the season of graduations, when family and friends gather together to celebrate, feign civility, and dine, usually at an upscale establishment to remind you that this is the last time you&...
The 2012 Serpentine Pavilion; Photo: Getty The 2012 Serpentine Pavilion was opened to the press this morning under muted skies and damp grounds. Designed by Pritzker laureates Herzog & de Meuron ...
Detail of “Cosmic Quilt” by The Principals New York Design Week saw the fourth installment of Models Citizens, an annual showcase of work by independent and emerging designers. This year&...
Last we saw filmmaker, artist, sculptor, and all-around polymath David Lynch, he had just completed a vintage nightclub-cum-salon in Paris, named Club Silencio after its fictional counterpart in R...
Last month, we wrote about self-proclaimed ‘urban hactivist’ Florian Rivière and his DIY guerrilla tactics that transform even the most ponderous of urban spaces and artifacts into gags, ...
Residence in New York by Pierce Allen Architects and GD Cucine. We’ve all been there. The friend’s apartment that’s simply too small to accommodate the dinner or party they’re...
Following the examples of Nathanial Kahn, son of the great modernist architect Louis Kahn, and James Venturi, the sole offspring of theorists and practitioners Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, ...
OWEN by Jeremy Barbour and tacklebox architecture; All photos: Juliana Sohn for OWEN “Brownbagging it” usually connotes the current financial straits of the person wielding the term who, ...
‘Liquid Glacial’ by Zaha Hadid; All photos: Jacopo Spilimbergo We wrote about Zaha Hadid’s ‘Liquid Glacial’ table last month when it debuted David Gill showroom in Londo...
Thirty-five years ago yesterday, the world did not yet know about Star Wars or what it was. No one had yet heard of strange names like ‘Skywalker’ and ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, nor ha...
All images: OMA What does one build for Kanye West, self-proclaimed genius, Lothario, Byronic hero, mover of mountains and stone? What kind of structure could even handle the intense force of nature ...
“Chandigarh” by Doshi Levien; All images: Doshi Levien for Moroso via Atavism can be quite the repellent thing, especially in design. The return to or the appropriation of past forms inev...
Batman, like most superheroes, is defined by the city which he’s sworn to protect. That city is, of course, Gotham, the depiction of which has changed considerably in the 70 years since the cha...
Antilia; Photo: Hirsch Bedner Associates via Money, it seems, really can’t buy a home. The world’s first and only $1 billion house, a towering 27-story structure in Mumbai filled to the b...
Photo: Conrad Benner To many visitors and tourists to Philadelphia, the steps leading to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art are synonymous with the cinematic prize fighter Rocky Balb...
The Windermere by GD Cucine Living in Manhattan has its perks (jobs, parties, all-night takeout), its indulgences (shows, alcohol, all-night takeout), and its drawbacks (crowds, vertigo, all-night ta...
The joys of the terrarium mainly consist in beholding the Earth in miniature, by containing the terrestrial world in a shell of one’s own making–life neatly encapsulated in a transparent ...
Photo: Reuters Four years after beginning construction and a year after withstanding the tremors of the 2011 Japanese earthquake, the Tokyo Sky Tree–the world’s tallest tower–opened...
“Type City by Hong Seon Jang; All photos: David B. Smith Gallery Describing the (explicitly Western) architectural production of the last five hundred years, Mario Carpo writes how this output ...
Kukje Art Center by SO-IL; All photos: Iwan Baan Architectural plasticity once meant–and still does, in some quarters–a cubist-like composition of stark, white-washed walls that communica...
All images: NL Architects Where the rooftop race track connoted a Futurist sensibility of speed and motion, cast in modernist clothes of reinforced concrete, Holland-based NL Architects‘ concep...
Searching for the answers to life’s greatest mysteries? Let art take you by the hand and guide you on the right path! That’s what artist Akasegawa Genpei did when he decided to investigat...
Extreme Shower Showdown! Following the debut of the horizontal shower (exactly what it sounds like) by Dornbracht, a new crazy conceptual shower device has entered the fray. Called the “Loop...
Reality Cues, the firm that brought you the Le Cor(nudie)r Competition, is back with a new collage challenge: create provocative architectural images that make us shout, “OMG!!!!!!!!!” Th...
KSAT Svalbard Ground Station; All photographs: Greg White A self-identified “frustrated architect”, George Lucas has, in fact, built much more than most architects, constructing not only ...
Though it may be the most fun part of the design process (who doesn’t love spending hours in the material library?), specifying the interiors of a project can also be the toughest part of a pro...
Image via DutchArtEvents. Dutch art duo Haas & Hahn has a shtick that sticks: the pair, comprised of Jeroen Koolhaas (yes, a direct descendent of Rem) and Dre Urhahn, is known for their colorful ...
It’s that time of year again. Spring is the season of design expos and exhibitions, when new and innovative furniture projects and products bloom on the trade floor show. A favorite of ours is ...
There’s 9 tons of chocolate in that there pyramid. The colossal cacao structure was commissioned to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Qzina Specialty Foods, which tapped chef Francois Mellet ...
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