A Store with an Urban Environment
Americana is a flagship ship store designed with the Urban Environment in mind. All objects such as the mannequins, changing rooms all the way down…
Architecture
Herringbone Creates Harmony In The Home
Two 4000 sq ft homes in Wandsworth, London have been designed with a new and modern feel. The designer uses wood throughout that displays a…
A Green Home Away From Home
Do you ever wish you could have a vacation home that requires very little of your time for upkeep? A home where you don’t have…
Blue Skies
How drab the city streets can be with the monotone colored buildings and not much blue sky to be seen. However, after two and a…
Mitsuru’s Magnolia Stadium
For the Master Tennis Cup this year in Shanghai, the plan is to make it the most spectacular event ever in its history. Architect Mitsuru…
Rainbow Effect Stairwell
A rainbow refracted through windows lined with prismatic film fills a white stairwell designed by Steven Holl. The perforated steel staircase and skylight are part…
The Modern Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
If Charlie ever imagined what a modern chocolate factory would look like, he’d probably never have thought it would look like this. Then again, he’s…
T-bone House
Zlatko Antolovic and Alexander Wendlik’s practice COAST completed the T-Bone house last summer. At a modest 150 square metres, this family home near the German…
C42 Car Showroom
Car showrooms were once the wonders of the modern world, grand temples to the mystery of mechanical progress. Citroën, always one of the most forward-looking…
Kisho Kurokawa 1934-2007
One of Japan’s greatest architects, Kisho Kurokawa, died last week leaving behind a very significant theoretical and concrete legacy. Kurokawa co-founded the Metabolist movement in…
Architects Who Changed the Way We Travel
It’s no secret that beautiful buildings are part of the reason that travelers choose certain destinations, but which modern architects are making the most impact…
Better Than A Trailer Apartment
Young people want to own their own homes but dang if it ain’t expensive. So they’re forced to choose really small tight spaces that weren’t…