The last time Hamburg’s hulking air raid bunker saw use, it was 1945—and locals were taking cover from Allied bombs inside its six-foot-thick concrete walls. That was almost 70 years ago. This year, the bunker is serving a new purpose: Supplying the city with renewable energy.
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Are you an interior designer or innovator in the field of lighting? If
so, then it’s time to earn some well-deserved recognition for your
brilliant work by submitting it to the 2014 IES Illumination Awards.
Winning the Award of Excellence is a huge achievement for anyone devoted
to pioneering lighting systems, and it shows how brightly your work
shines!
The only thing worse than being stuck at a desk all day is being stuck at a desk in an office without a view. So if you’re not high enough on the corporate ladder to warrant a window yet, these lovely Archi-desk accessories can put a New York-style skyline on your desk, no matter where it’s located.
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Buildings "grown" from fungus and other organic materials may seem like a far-off concept to some. But this summer, a group of young Brooklyn architects are planning to demonstrate just how real the technology is—by building a tower out of bricks "grown" from mycelium in the courtyard of MoMA P.S.1.
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Privacy is a big deal in the home. That’s why we have walls and curtains and doors and things. Because after all, you don’t want even your closest friends and relatives to see what you’re up to all the time. Unless you live in Shanghai’s Vertical Glass House. With glass ceilings and floors, privacy is not its selling point.
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We’ve all had that thought while playing with origami: "If this paper swan were bigger, I would live in it." Okay, so maybe not all of us have had that thought, but it certainly crossed the minds of the architects at Make, in London, who recently designed these crazy folding kiosks.
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The closest most of us will get to 432 Park Avenue—the 1,400-foot skyscraper rising in midtown Manhattan—is ogling it from the deli across the street. But in this adorable little video, the structural engineer behind the building leads us through its upper floors.
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Abandoned subway stations have long been the playgrounds of squatters and urban explorers alike, but one French politician has higher hopes. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a candidate for mayor of Paris, wants to turn them into awesome entertainment and sports venues.
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Your garden-variety multiplex probably resembles a concrete box with interiors sporting giant movie ads and sterile seating areas. But there are still a number of surviving theaters that show off the glamour and scope of cinema in its heyday. Photographer Franck Bohbot’s recent series documents just that.
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It’s that time again: the International Interior Design Association is
accepting entries for the 41st Annual Interior Design Competition. If
you are an architect or interior designer with some fantastic work
completed after January 1st, 2012, you just might deserve an award!
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