Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
Seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. This is a dramatic change over one and a half generations, and it will require us to rethink how we build our cities.
At the same time, many tech companies — Amazon, Tencent, Google, Samsung and others — are infusing digital technology into how cities are built and operated. They’re introducing different thinking about what defines a high-rise and a city.
As it does every year before Earth Day, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) released their list of the year’s top green projects. This year, educational centers made it big, alongside civic infrastructure, and others.
"Architectural visionary" David Adjaye has been named among Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2017 – and is the only architect to make the list.
The first quarter of the year ended on a positive note for the Architecture Billings Index (ABI). The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the March ABI score was 54.3, up from a score of 50.7 in the previous month. This score reflects a sizable increase in design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). The new projects inquiry index was 59.8, down from a reading of 61.5 the previous month, while the new design contracts index dipped from 54.7 to 52.3.
HKS Hospitality Group, the renowned hospitality architecture and interiors division of HKS Architects, announces its U.S. expansion with the opening of a hospitality architecture design studio in New York City that also marks its first hospitality presence in the northeastern U.S. The new studio will support HKS Hospitality Group's growth and development efforts in the northeastern U.S. and will be directed by Vice President Alex John, an accomplished architect with diverse global experience who is returning to his New York City roots following a successful 12-year post in HKS' Dallas headquarters.
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is not one to fear attention—just look at his parade of magazine profiles, many a splashy video teaser for his designs, and, more recently, his own episode in Abstract, Netflix’s new documentary series on design. And now, a trailer for a new Ingels documentary titled Big Time, to be released at the Copenhagen Architecture Festival later this month, teases a more intimate way into the architect’s head, literally.
Cover, a technology startup in Los Angeles, is bringing the design, engineering, and manufacturing of prefabs into the 21st century.
The 20th year of Architectural RECORD's investigation into the value of architectural excellence to a business’s bottom line confirms that design does matter. From the North American headquarters of a German prosthetics manufacturer to an established West Coast opera company, our featured projects showcase successful client-architect collaborations, resulting in thoughtful, healthy, and sustainable environments. The impact of their strategies—improved customer and community relations, enhanced employee satisfaction, and lower operating costs—reaches far beyond financial gain alone.
Early findings from the AJ’s 2017 Life in practice survey also show that larger practices have suffered more in terms of decreasing workloads, falling staff numbers and fewer inquiries compared with smaller outfits in the wake of last year’s referendum.
Nearly 60 per cent of architects based in the capital said that they had seen projects go on hold, with a quarter saying they had seen staff numbers decrease since the Brexit vote last June.
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) returned to growth mode in February, after a weak showing in January. [...] (AIA) reported the February ABI score was 50.7, up from a score of 49.5 in the previous month. This score reflects a minor increase in design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). The new projects inquiry index was 61.5, up from a reading of 60.0 the previous month, while the new design contracts index climbed from 52.1 to 54.7.
Tokyo-based YKK Fudosan Co, Ltd, part of YKK Group’s global network, has obtained LEED-BD+C (Core and Shell) Platinum certification for its YKK80 Building. It was the first such certification for a new office building in Japan. The goal of the project team was to reduce energy consumption by 60% when compared to typical office buildings. To achieve this, the design prioritized water and energy efficiency along with a healthy indoor environment. Open space within the seismically isolated structure was utilized as a heat sink for the geothermal heating system of the building. Other features include sensors for day-lighting and motion-activated operability, outdoor air cooling and mist facilities for the exterior shaft, radiant panels, desiccant air cooling, and high-performance electrical outlets.
Architect Joan Saba explains the “flat and lumpy” approach her firm NBBJ takes to leadership–and why architecture isn’t just about aesthetics any more.
For decades, architectural discourse was dominated by the notion that a single iconic building could reshape a neighborhood. Today, the best architecture firms are taking a more nuanced approach to the built environment. They’re using design and technology to tackle everything from climate change to social justice, and they are doing so not as lone geniuses toiling away in the dark, but in collaboration with clients, neighborhoods, and cities. The starchitecture era is dead.
To celebrate International Women's Day, the Dezeen editorial team has nominated 50 women and female-led studios from the architecture and design industry who inspire us. In no particular order... Via dezeen.com
Hunvey Chen, AIA, remembers her mom discouraging her from playing hockey as a child. Still, she never stopped dreaming about the game.
Decades later, at the age of 34, Chen learned that her hometown team — the Los Angeles Kings — was offering a hockey clinic for fans. She signed up for her first-ever lessons. Now Chen, a project architect in HOK’s Los Angeles studio, plays a few times a week in two hockey leagues and recently starred in a PowerBar video about inspirational athletes.
The Charleston East, California campus is being designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio, and is set to be Google’s first purpose-built office complex.
Last week, Google revealed updated renderings of its forthcoming campus. The BIG and Thomas Heatherwick design has seen its fair share of updates since it was first announced in early 2015, a normal occurrence for such a large and high-profile project. This new rendition swaps the building's transparent roof for an opaque canopy. One Co.Design staffer's first reaction to the new, more ominous and compact design? It looks like the Death Star.
Chicago’s storied basketball and hockey franchises have completed a major investment in the United Center that will ensure the arena, which opened in 1994, remains one of the nation’s premier sports facilities for decades to come. HOK was the lead architect on the east addition project, with McHugh Construction serving as the general contractor.
It’s time to end building specification nightmares for architects. According to a newly released survey by the AIA, The Architect’s Journey to Specification, a large number of architects are disappointed with current resources available to them in the specifying process. In the digital age, firms are increasingly calling for better web-based tools to provide more nuanced ways to compare products by performance, criteria and price.
For the first time, three individuals have been named as Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta. All three are from Olot in the Catalonian region of Spain; in 1988 the trio founded their firm RCR Arquitectes.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate is typically given to an individual. In awarding a group, the Pritzker Architecture Prize cited the following: “Their intensely collaborative way of working together, where the creative process, commitment to vision and all responsibilities are shared equally, led to the selection of the three individuals for this year’s award.” Aranda, Pigem, and Vilalta are collectively the 38th winner of the prize and they will take home $100,000 as well as architecture’s most prestigious honor.
