Work Can Happen Anywhere, But the Office Is Still Needed
The Workplace of the Future Design Competition revealed a wealth of fresh ideas and a bit of uncertainty about exactly where we’re headed.
Author: Andrew Blum
Apps for Kids: Designing for Tomorrow's Digital Natives
For today's kids, the line between the physical and the digital is often a seamless blur.
Shigeru Ban Brings a Touch of His Signature Cardboard to Soho
The Japanese architect’s new store for Camper is a crisp reflection of the global brand’s anywhere aesthetic.
Acting Like a Start-Up
After designing offices for a veritable who’s who of Silicon Valley tech firms, Studio O+A has a new challenge: bringing the behemoths back to their renegade roots.
Here but Not Here
Architecture has yet to acknowledge the impact of social media on our experience of physical space.
Style & Substance
Anachronistic tastes land Roman & Williams two of New York’s hottest hotels—and a quiet, little brick apartment building that looks like it might be more than a century old.
The Big Apple Store
New York tourism gets a 21st-century interface.
Tracking The Future
On the eve of Barack Obama’s New New Deal, a series of compelling photographs illustrates the divide between repair and renewal, despair, and hope.
The Long View: Urban Remediation through Landscape & Architecture
By embracing the city’s industrial past—reclaiming landfills, remediating brownfields, developing neglected waterfronts—James Corner has helped reinvent the field of landscape architecture.
The Long View: James Corner & Landscape's Postindustrial Potential
By embracing the city’s industrial past—reclaiming landfills, remediating brownfields, developing neglected waterfronts—James Corner has helped reinvent the field of landscape architecture.
Saint Brad
With his Make It Right project in New Orleans, Pitt may be on his way to becoming architecture’s most important patron. Is architecture up for the challenge?
Carbon Neutral U
In the age of global warming, the greening of the American college campus is a largely grassroots effort driven by students, faculty, and in-house staff dedicated to sustainable thinking.
The Accidental Environmentalists
A chronic problem with employee retention led this pragmatic client to building green.
Planning Rwanda
Thirteen years after the genocide, the tiny African nation begins imagining its future.
The Elementalist
Brad Cloepfil’s emerging body of work may symbolize a shift away from glib shape-making toward a more timeless and lasting architecture.
Dreaming in Code
Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity.
Living on the Network
Objects should celebrate our connection to the digital world, not minimize it.
The Vibrancy of Green- Greenbuild 2006
Industry leaders discuss the role of green building and the important changes taking place.
The Green Urban Office
With natural lighting and amenities for transportation, HOK’s downtown Toronto studios set the gold standard for office interiors.
Greener Education
Parks and organizations worldwide are learning “public-space management” from the Central Park Conservancy.
