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Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico

The Creative Spark: Lighting designer Gustavo Avilés illuminates the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico in Mexico City

Josephine Minutillo

August 16, 2014

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Lighting designer Gustavo Avilés illuminates the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico in Mexico City Erecting a monument to casualties of crime is never straightforward, and can be controversial.

Building 347 Parking Garage

Park and Recreation: Vittorio Lampugnani uses an unlikely material to create an atypical garage with a built-in fitness facility.

Josephine Minutillo

July 16, 2014

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Vittorio Lampugnani uses an unlikely material to create an atypical garage with a built-in fitness facility.

Building 337

Corporate Transparency: Rafael Viñoly reimagines the glass office building with a continuous workspace that wraps around a central atrium.

Josephine Minutillo

July 16, 2014

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To visit Building 337 on the Novartis campus in East Hanover, New Jersey, is to walk through it with awe, something akin to what visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building must have felt a century ago.

Newsmaker: Smiljan Radić

Josephine Minutillo

June 18, 2014

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Smiljan Radić's 2014 Serpentine Pavilion opened to the public on June 26. The Serpentine Pavilion has become one of London’s leading summer attractions since launching in 2000. Last year’s cloud-like structure by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto within the city’s Kensington Gardens was visited by almost 200,000 people. In March, Serpentine Galleries Director Julia Peyton-Jones and Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist announced their selection of Chilean architect Smiljan Radić to design the 2014 edition of the temporary construction. A 2008 Architectural Record Vanguard, the architect may not be as well-known as some of his pavilion-designer predecessors – which include Rem Koolhaas, Frank

Island Residence

There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.

Josephine Minutillo

June 16, 2014

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There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.

Navy Green Supportive Housing by Architecture in Formation

Brooklyn, New York

Josephine Minutillo

June 16, 2014

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Boldly designed housing for the chronically homeless anchors a mixed residential development in a rapidly changing neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

New Orleans BioInnovation Center

Josephine Minutillo

June 16, 2014

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The success of a building is not often measured in quantifiable terms. But when Aaron Miscenich, the executive director of the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, embarked on a new building laden with energy-intensive labs on a former brownfield site in a depopulated area of the city's downtown, he needed hard numbers to make the gamble pay off. Begun in 2007—two years after Hurricane Katrina—the center was conceived as an incubator for biotechnology start-ups. “There was a stigma to the city,” says Mark Ripple, partner at New Orleans–based Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. “It was seen as contaminated goods, both literally and figuratively. Graduates from

Milan's 2014 Salone del Mobile

Josephine Minutillo

June 16, 2014

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Architects take center stage at the biggest furniture show of the year.

David Adjaye-Designed Sugar Hill Affordable Housing Development Nears Completion in Harlem

Josephine Minutillo

June 10, 2014

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The 191,500-square-foot mixed-use development incorporates permanently affordable housing, pre-kindergarten classrooms, and the new Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined with community leaders in Harlem on a rainy Monday morning to celebrate an innovative housing development nearing completion in the neighborhood’s historic Sugar Hill enclave. Designed by David Adjaye, the 191,500-square-foot mixed-use development incorporates permanently affordable housing, pre-kindergarten classrooms, and the new Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. “It is so rare to see a city do this kind of project,” the London- and New York-based Adjaye explained at

Learning to Samba

Foreign architecture firms navigate cultural barriers and contend with the long shadow of Brazil's Modern masters.

Josephine Minutillo

May 16, 2014

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Occupying nearly half of the South American landmass and containing more than 50 percent of the continent's population, Brazil seems at first glance to be a market ripe for foreign architects.