A+Award Winner Q+A: Juho Grönholm on Famous Finns and Finding Inspiration in...
ALA Architects won the 2014 Jury Award for the Theaters & Performing Arts Centers category with Kilden.
View ArticleUrban Farmhouse
The design parti was to create a simple footprint resulting in a gabled, readily recognized farmhouse form from the street. To complete this farmhouse story, the double-gable side massing was to...
View ArticleIf Louis Kahn Wore Nikes: 7 Sexy Shoes For Architects
If Louis Kahn wore Nikes, they would probably look something like this. The newly released Blazer Mid Metric shoe displays a slick monohedral tessellation reminiscent of the ceiling at the American...
View ArticleHunya Chocolate Museum (Republic of Chocolate)
The site is surrounded by agricultural land and commands an open view with local residences encircling the peripheral area. The museum, on the site’s northeast corner, and the factory, on the...
View ArticleSpots Illustrated: Thomas Danthony's Top-Notch Architectural Artwork
What is the difference between a representational drawing, such as a rendering, and an interpretation of a built project by an illustrator? Buildings are drawn for several reasons, but the rendering...
View ArticleHat Club SoHo
Hat Club SoHo is an adaptable retail shop. By housing the merchandise in 420 modular boxes, the shop can evolve as needed to address shopper demand. If the need arises to add, change, twist, or turn...
View ArticleBrick Lloyd Wright: LEGO Taliesin West Is the Latest Masterpiece by This A+Juror
Who are the Architizer A+Awards jurors, you ask? Well, members of the esteemed panel comes from all walks of life, including architects, curators, photographers, developers... and even one...
View ArticleLopez House
This project, located in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles, is situated on an irregularly shaped, steeply sloping lot. Faced with a limited budget, it was particularly challenging to negotiate the...
View ArticleNew York City's Airports Are About to Suck Way Less
After my hour-long commute with luggage via the L and A subway lines, I find myself on the AirTrain shuttle, making sure I don't miss my stop. I know once I find it, I will have a nice little jaunt...
View ArticleThe Metropolis
The Metropolis is a unique office development because it is situated within 59,000 square feet of lush greenery, a luxury that many similar grade-A office developments were unable to offer to its...
View ArticleArchitecture/Caricature: On Gehry's Return to Paris
America’s most famous architect of the late-20th century (extending as it has into the 21st) is Frank Gehry; after all, stylistic eras rarely coincide exactly with the calendar’s measure of time. Now,...
View ArticleForever
The Forever collection satisfies the needs of wellness and aesthetic pleasure. The line has been specially designed by Luca Colombo for a wall and glass fixing with a special acrylic foam tape.
View ArticleA+Award Winner Q+A: Terreform ONE's Maria Aiolova on Designing Bike Lanes and...
Terreform ONE won the 2014 Jury Award for the Architecture+Communication category with Bio City World Map of 11 Billion.
View ArticleBoats 2E + 2N
Boats 2E + 2N are two adjacent apartments with similar challenges. It was necessary to create two bedrooms for the families in each of their narrow spaces with access to an exterior deck for natural...
View ArticleYes, Please: Edsbyn's Ease, A Post-Consumer Office Partition
Is the optimal workplace open plan or cubicle? The jury’s still out. That’s why flexible workspaces that toe the line between the two are now a large part of the task furniture market. And if it turns...
View ArticleCancer Specialists of North Florida
One of the largest and fastest-growing oncology practices in North Florida selected ELM to master plan their medical office campus featuring a new regional administrative headquarters and...
View ArticleGaming the System: Monopoly Gets Updated for 2015 in "Austerity"
Leave it to the Brits to come up with something so funny and true that it ends up being a little terrifying. Austerity is an update of Monopoly, but instead of robber barons and railroads, there are...
View ArticleDream Dairy Farm Restaurant
The following interior design was realized for a restaurant built on a farm surrounded by a lush forest. Because the menu is characterized by the fact that products such as cheese and yogurt made from...
View ArticleOak Pass Guest
This two-bedroom guesthouse sits along a ridge in a grove of over 120 coast live oak trees. The building utilizes a small footprint and height to maximize panoramic canyon views while strengthening...
View ArticleSeeing Red Square: Architects Design for Tolerance in the Shadow of the Kremlin
Winners have been selected for HMMD / Homemade Dessert's architecture competition to design a temporary pavilion for the education of tolerance — social, political and religious — in Moscow's Red...
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