Studio V Architecture partnered with lighting designer Suzan Tillotson to create a new face for the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway. “Good taste” and “casino design” may seem to be an unlikely pairing.
Asked to describe what his company was like 15 years ago, Marc Jacobs International president Robert Duffy says breezily, “It was teeny.” Today the fashion powerhouse is heading toward $1 billion in annual sales, with two flagship stores and an IPO. “I just say the most important thing is that everybody remain calm,” says Duffy. Remaining calm in an industry where “in” can be “out” in a blink involves partnerships—partnerships that Duffy and designer Marc Jacobs have carefully cultivated for years. Back in the late 1990s, when the company was just a 10-person team and beginning its first foray into
As pressure mounts in the Persian Gulf for migrant-labor reform after scores of worker deaths, architects should consider the broader impact of their designs.
Most workers have a long commute to the job site and at the end of the day, are bused back to labor camps, where they often live in miserable conditions.
Tucked between lushly vegetated sand dunes and the Atlantic Ocean, the Mãe Luiza favela spills out from the fringes of Natal, a city of 800,000 people in northeastern Brazil.
After winning a competition to revitalize Pedras Salgadas Park, a 1920s-era hot springs resort in northern Portugal, architect Tiago Rebelo de Andrade and his father, Luis, decided to create a grown-up take on a typical father-son structure: the tree house.
On a barren patch of desert in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto basin, just 50 miles west of the site where scientists detonated the first nuclear weapon, Foster + Partners took on an extraordinary task: to construct the world’s first private hangar facility for spaceflight.