Phoenix Might Actually Be Serious About Building 'The Pin'
Last week, the City of Phoenix issued a broad request for proposals soliciting “Entertainment and Tourism Attractions” for the downtown area.After months of unofficial support for a massive...
View ArticleThe Incredible Science Behind How Nature Solves Every Engineering Problem
A new trend is emerging, where researchers, designers, and everyone in between are starting to ask, "how can we be more like nature — more renewable, more constructive and more sustainable?" In a world...
View ArticleCheck Out The Buildings That Won This Guy The World's Top Architecture Award
Toyo Ito, the innovative Japanese architect, just won the esteemed 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize.The 71-year-old architect has designed dozens of structures, from homes to libraries, around the...
View ArticleOur Favorite Obscure Real Estate Indicator Just Hit Its Highest Mark Since...
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) climbed to 54.9 in February from 54.2 in January.Any score above 50 indicates growth.The new projects inquiry sub-index jumped to 64.8 from 63.2 a month ago.The...
View ArticleArchitecture Fans Say These Are The Coolest Buildings In The World
Online architecture database Architecture has just announced the winners of its first annual "A+" awards, meant to "break architecture out of the echo chamber" and into the public eye.There were 52...
View ArticleThe Absolute Best Architecture In Shanghai [PHOTOS]
With the help of our readers, our Architecture City Guide is headed to Shanghai.Shanghai is noted for having more Art Deco buildings than any other city, including László Hudec’s Park Hotel, which is...
View ArticleThe Winning Designs For The Skyscraper Of The Future
Organized in 2006 by eVolo Magazine, the Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas for vertical living.After reviewing more than 600 projects from 83 different countries, the winners for the...
View ArticleThese Futuristic Buildings Have Changed The Beijing Skyline Forever [Photos]
This week, with the help of our readers, our Architecture City Guide is headed to Beijing. Beijing has a range of architectural styles, but the three most prevalent are the traditional imperial style...
View ArticleArchitecture Fans Went Crazy Over These 20 Projects
As you might have heard, ArchDaily is celebrating its 5th birthday! We decided it was time to get a bit nostalgic and look back at the projects of yesteryear, the ones that struck a chord with you, our...
View Article4 Important Architecture Lessons From Denmark
Last week the UK’s Culture Minister Ed Vaizey announced that he was commissioning a review of the country’s architecture policy, to be led by Sir Terry Farrell along with a number of high profile...
View ArticleAn Architectural Gem In NYC Will Be Demolished After Just 12 Years
“There are of course the personal feelings — your buildings are like your children, and this is a particular, for us, beloved small child. But there is also the feeling that it’s a kind of loss for...
View Article50 New York City Buildings That No Longer Exist
New York City is constantly evolving.As the city has grown, classic structures have been destroyed to make way for new development, or replaced with more contemporary versions.New York Architecture...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright-Designed Auto Showroom Demolished In New York City
In late March, one of the few Frank Lloyd Wright designs in New York City was demolished quietly at 430 Park Avenue. This seldom-noticed interior retail space was home to the Hoffman Auto Showroom for...
View ArticleThe Plans For Korea's Futuristic 'Dream' City Are Pretty Far Out
According to Business Insider and a number of other real estate development outlets, the “Dream Hub” project in Seoul Korea that drew designs from internationally renowned architects including Daniel...
View ArticleOne World Trade Center Just Became The Tallest Building In The Western...
Today, construction crews placed the final part of the spire on One World Trade Center.The lower Manhattan building now measures a symbolic 1,776 feet—a patriotic reference to the year the Declaration...
View ArticleCompanies Are Working Harder To Engineer Employee Relationships
Companies are starting to build offices based on the idea that chance encounters — or "serendipity"— leads to more collaboration and innovation.Google, for example, is taking a data-centric approach to...
View ArticleThe Final Piece Of One World Trade Center Was Just Lifted Into Place
Construction crews just placed the final part of the spire on top of Manhattan's One World Trade Center.The pieces are being lifted to a temporary work platform now, and will be installed upright at a...
View ArticleWhy Architecture's Biggest Prize Is No Longer Relevant
The Pritzker Prize had idealistic beginnings: recognising achievement within architecture, a profession that had long lost its status in public opinion. Pritzker ‘seamed’ this fragmentation, celebrated...
View ArticleHere's What The New Tallest Skyscraper In Singapore Will Look Like
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, the 75-year-old American architecture, interior design and urban-planning firm better known as SOM, has revealed its design for Tanjong Pagar Centre, set to become...
View ArticleThe Coolest Buildings In Beirut
Following a brutal 15-year civil war that tore the city apart, Beirut has recovered remarkably; it was voted the number one destination to visit by the New York Times in 2009, and, more recently,...
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