With open-plan offices continuing to combat privacy and noise issues, product manufacturers have been presenting solutions in the forms of booths and cocoons.
When Architects and Manufacturers Work Together, Beautiful Design Emerges
‘Lego House’ designed by Bjarke Ingels will open in September
It was an idea destined to happen: a whole building dedicated to Lego, built with nothing but massive Lego-style “bricks.” Indeed, word of the real-life Lego building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group first got out in 2013. Fast-forward four years, the pile of 21 white blocks is coming along nicely, looking just as Lego-y as early renderings suggested.
Nearly complete Apple Park shown off in latest drone footage
Apple is making great strides toward completing work on its Apple Park campus in Cupertino, Calif., with new drone footage showing landscaping and interior decorating nearly finished in many areas of the sprawling grounds
How Amazon’s Nonstop Growth Is Creating A Brand-New Seattle
Today, Amazon says it has about 8.5 million square feet of space in Seattle (though some real estate sources estimates the figure as closer to 10 million). This gives it roughly 19% of all of the city’s “Class A” (high grade) office space, and about 70% of new downtown office space added in 2016 was exclusively for Amazon.
July Architectural Billing Index Growth Softens, But Design Services Increase
Billings eased slightly but stayed in positive territory, while new project inquiries and design contracts saw month-over-month gains.
Rejuvenating Chicago’s older buildings with new ideas from new places
Owners, developers and designers are rejuvenating older buildings by rethinking the traditional concept of common spaces. Lobbies and public areas previously designed to function solely as entry points and security checks are now hospitality-infused destinations
This Is Your Brain on Design
There has been, historically, a divide between building performance and human performance. I would argue that there’s no reason why they have to be divided. What we need to do is combine the information and produce best practices that serve both. We need to ask questions like, “Why do men and women differ when it comes to, say, thermal comfort?
Chicago Design/Architecture Think Tank Explores Health, Safety, and WELLfare
Third annual Legat/DIRTT symposium brings together leaders in healthcare, education, law enforcement, sustainability, and design to consider the future of performance-enhancing environment
Architectural Details: How the World’s Largest Curved Windows Were Forged for Apple Park
As Apple Park approaches completion and thousands of its employees have already moved in, it is worth reflecting on how this extraordinary building envelope was made. It started with the windows: The design teams at Apple and Foster + Partners have the unmatched efforts of seele and sedak to thank for realizing this singularly bold vision for the windows, which also double as walls.
Dallas' first couple of design hitches Staffelbach future to big-league suitor
Andre Staffelbach, Dallas’ interior design of hall-of-famer, and his CEO wife, Jo Staffelbach Heinz, have decided to run with the big dogs.
On Tuesday evening, the sole owners of Staffelbach Design Group quietly merged their 70-person firm into Minneapolis-based DLR Group, the nation’s 23rd-largest integrated architectural and design firm, which is owned by an employee stock ownership program (ESOP).
WeWork and WeLive will take over an entire 36-story mixed-use tower in Seattle
A new 36-story mixed-use tower designed by Perkins + Will in Seattle will be the new site of WeWork’s expanding WeLive co-living residential program.
Etsy Headquarters and Veneto, Italy, Among Winners of Center for Active Design's Excellence Awards
A new book about architect Zaha Hadid teaches kids to be independent thinkers
The late “starchitect” Zaha Hadid should be a role model to many beyond the world of architecture—but her genius is often hidden in the dry and impenetrable language of architecture textbooks. The first solo female architect to receive her field’s highest prize, Hadid punched through all sorts of glass ceilings and stereotypes.
Architecture’s increasing role in branding and advertising
Decades After the Rise of CAD, Architecture Is Going “Paperless”—For Real This Time
Developments in touchscreen technologies have opened up a new world of possibilities for architects and designers, and they continue to unfold. With the touchscreen and a good digital pencil, architects can now add sketching, drafting, hand-drawn commenting and mark-ups to their digital workflow—and yes, even bring our good friend trace paper into the mix.
5 Ways AIA’s Latest Document Will Help Sustainable Projects
This spring, the American Institute of Architects unveiled the latest updates to its core set of documents, and the addition that has the AEC industry buzzing is the Sustainable Projects Exhibit (E204–2017). Every 10 years, the AIA updates its documents to reflect changes to the industry and set new standards for negotiations between architects, contractors, clients and consultants across the country.
Be Original Americas welcomes its first architecture firm, Studio O+A
Be Original Americas is a nonprofit that advocates for design that’s authentic, sustainable, ethical, and successful. “The organization is committed to informing, educating and influencing as many people as possible about the value of original design.”
This summer, the organization is expanding its membership to include architecture and design firms across the country.
The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google
We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things – plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness – apparently without horizon. Graphics – rounded corners, lower case, Google’s primary colours, Twitter’s birdie, Facebook’s shades of blue – enhance the innocence and infantilism.
AIA's Consensus Construction Forecast downgrades expectations for 2017 and 2018
Construction spending so far in 2017 has been fairly disappointing. Commercial/industrial construction spending has increased just under 7 percent through the first five months of the year relative to the same period in 2016, as compared to over 10 percent growth for 2016 overall.
BNIM CONNECTS PEOPLE AND NATURE ON A 3,600-PERSON CALI CAMPUS
This redesign melds with the surrounding landscape, is suffused with natural light and achieved LEED Gold status.