The first thing many financial district nuts notice in the new SOM-designed 7 World Trade Center in New York is a moving white light radiating from a stainless steel screen wall (it actually encloses Con-Edison transformers). As one moves across and around the base, the light follows the viewer while changing to cobalt blue as the day moves into [...]
Who would you say is responsible for the stippled copper of San Francisco’s de Young Museum? The gouged-out hulk of 41 Cooper Square? The swooping metal shell of Seattle’s Experience Music Project? If you said Herzog & de Meuron, Thom Mayne, and Frank Gehry, you wouldn’t be wrong. But you wouldn’t be entirely correct.
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ICFF breezes into town this week, and with it, a spate of design-centric parties for every taste. Architizer is getting in on the action with a fete with Valcucine at DOM Showrooms, on the occasion of an exhibition themed “In Glass.”
Featuring art/architecture work by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics, and Alessandro Mendini [...]
For those of you not familiar with the Coverings show, it is the largest stone and tile convention in North America. Jointly sponsored by the respective trade groups of the US, Spain and Italy, Coverings is an annual gathering that is international in scope.
The invited press spent a half a day with each of the three national trade groups. Each [...]
Architizer is headed to sunny Florida for Coverings, the largest tile + stone expo in North America, and we’re looking for an intrepid design enthusiast to report on the most exciting trends and news at the show.
Are you mad for mosaic tile? Does stone make you swoon?
If so, then tell us in 200 words or [...]
As if last weekend’s Golden Globes wasn’t harbinger enough, it is certifiably award season. Which we know means awards abound in the field of entertainment, but in architecture we are experiencing our own award season:
From the Wallpaper* Design Awards to this, the Material ConneXion 2009 MEDIUM Award for Material of the Year. Material ConneXion is [...]
