Through corporate foundations, architecture firms are funding students' research travel. But does supporting design education require a nonprofit structure?
The new Palm Court building in Miami's Design District is a jeweler's row, concentrating luxury brands like A. Lange & Söhne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Piaget in a line.
The 42-year-old German designer Konstantin Grcic was feted as the Stockholm Furniture Fair’s guest of honor this year, following on the heels of past years’ celebrity choices like the Bouroullec brothers, Patricia Urquiola, and Naoto Fukasawa.
Snøhetta's design will double the size of the restaurant's garden. To the epicures lucky enough to score a reservation at The French Laundry this spring: A three-Michelin-starred feast isn’t the only sensory treat that awaits you. Earlier this month, the 20-year-old restaurant in Yountville, California, put its kitchen on full display to the street. Approaching guests can glimpse the intricate choreography of chefs and servers through a 30-foot-long bay window inserted into a shipping container fronting Washington Street. Three additional containers complete the kitchen. Designed by Berkeley-based Envelope A+D, the quartet of shipping containers is the latest phase in a
Although this year’s International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas drew a third fewer attendees than last year’s, the show still saw the introduction of a range of innovative products as the industry tries to make itself more environmentally friendly.
152 Elizabeth Street, to be completed next November, will exemplify Ando's rigorous, serene architecture. Tadao Ando's 152 Elizabeth Street will measure 32,000 square feet over seven stories. New York City first got a taste of Tadao Ando when the Japanese architect designed Masaharu Morimoto’s eponymous restaurant nine years ago. The Pritzker Prize laureate is poised to more completely sate local architectural appetite with 152 Elizabeth Street, a condominium rising in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood, Ando’s first freestanding building in New York. Unlike Morimoto, which was praised for its dynamic layout and dramatic combinations of materials, the forthcoming building will exemplify
