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SCI-Arc's planned robot annex promises solutions to real problems—in the building industry and beyond it.
SCI-Arc's planned robot annex promises solutions to real problems—in the building industry and beyond it.
A renovation of the Phillip Johnson and John Burgee–designed Crystal Cathedral adds algorithmically-modeled shades to protect the congregation from the sun.
A Think Tank panel discussion hosted at AECOM’s office in Los Angeles mulled over the consequences of building integrated data capture and analytics.
At a Think Tank panel discussion held at SmithGroup’s L.A. office, experts describes the challenges and rewards of integrating resiliency into projects.
A Think Tank talk, hosted at HOK’s Los Angeles office, challenged the assumptions behind common workplace paradigms, like plunking a café or gym in an office.
Metropolis interviews the renowned Japanese architect, whose retrospective exhibition Futures of the Future is currently on view at Japan House Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles-based fabricator Ceilings Plus and SCI-Arc graduates push the limits on building products.
The poetic form of the Bahá’i Temple of South America is a triumph of engineering and material innovation.
After two decades of experience in robotics-based fabrication, Andreas Froech, founder of Machineous Consultants, wants more control over his work and is reclaiming his role in the design process.
Based out of a Los Angeles landmark, Gallery ALL is a vital node in the city's design network.
Please Do Not Enter isn’t a secret, but it isn’t exactly well-known either. To founders Nicolas Libert and Emmanuel Renoird, both originally from Paris, this means they are doing something right.
The fashion designer Tomas Maier has launched a campaign to save the best of the Japanese capital's twentieth-century architecture.
With bases in Los Angeles and Brittany, France, the landscape designers craft exquisite outdoor spaces around the world.
The London-based designer mixes computer programming and grade-school charm in his whimsical sound installations.
Designers Airi Isoda and Ryan Upton see architecture everywhere—in everyday objects, interior spaces, and ready-to-wear apparel.
How seriously should architects take Xi Jinping’s remarks on unusual buildings?
In central Florida, architects have adopted 3-D printing to restore an obscure Wright-designed gem.
The landscape architect has spent nearly two decades helping transform a mammoth drainage canal into a true urban amenity.
What everyone is saying about Rem's Venice curatorial effort.
Students from the USC School of Architecture were given a strange task: create a Mao jacket out of unconventional materials.