Building goods, lighting, and furnishings that benefited from engineering breakthroughs as well as those produced via digital technology dominated architectural record’s Products of the Year, the magazine’s annual award competition for the best and brightest offerings in the industry.
Aybars Asci is fascinated by concrete’s shape-shifting nature. “When I see a concrete surface,” the Brooklyn architect says, “I always imagine its liquid state, its movement as it was poured.”
With its trio of inward-sloping tiers, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) cuts a striking profile on the National Mall.