Harvard Opens Snøhetta-Designed Prototype for Super-Sustainable Retrofits
Dubbed HouseZero, the building uses data-collecting sensors, passive ventilation, low embodied energy materials, and geothermal wells, among other strategies.
Dubbed HouseZero, the building uses data-collecting sensors, passive ventilation, low embodied energy materials, and geothermal wells, among other strategies.
After its first design proposal for the now-landmarked Postmodern icon incited outcry from preservationists, the firm has revealed a pared-down revision, one that invites history and the public back in.
The campus, set within a dense forest north of Oslo, will include a variety of buildings inspired directly by planets and their orbits.
The overhaul, which includes a new kitchen and a revamped courtyard for Chef Thomas Keller's famed California restaurant, was inspired by the "complex choreography of the kitchen."
The plan would replace the 1984 Postmodern icon's ground level stone facade with a new, glassy street front.
The restaurant, appropriately named "Under," will be located on the southern tip of Norway's coastline.
Times Square's latest redesign is uncluttered, clean, and features versatile new furniture, courtesy of a collaboration between Snøhetta and Vestre.
"The Arch" will serve as a physical reminder of both Tutu's legacy and the ongoing importance of the constitution in South Africa’s democracy.
Fewer than 20 percent of American office workers take a lunch break, partly because the average workplace doesn’t have a lunch room. Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed its own offices to accommodate this important activity and make it the central focus of the workday.
And the winners are... Snøhetta founders Craig Dykers (left) and Kjetil Thorsen. You heard it here first: The architecture firm to lead the highly anticipated, $250 million expansion of SFMOMA will be the Oslo- and New York–based Snøhetta, which beat…
Munich firm Burger Rudacs designed the two faces of the new John Cranko School to interface with the city in contrasting ways.
A glut of speculative plans reimagine the future streetscape. But is it a road to nowhere?
The right architectural products or materials can help architects and designers address a whole host of problems or priorities in buildings.
Studio O+A crafts the ultimate workplace for Slack by channeling life on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Data influences WeWork’s real estate deals, construction sequence, and design choices. There’s a sense that acquiring data literacy makes architecture relevant in a tech-dominated era.
Today, the AIA also announced its AIA Firm Award, Topaz Medallion, and Edward C. Kemper Award recipients.
The 77-story MahaNakhon tower in Bangkok, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, is topped by an almost-850-square-foot glass platform.
At a Think Tank discussion held at SmithGroup in Boston, Metropolis's Susan S. Szenasy led a discussion on new town/gown dynamics.
This week, Metropolis's editors are revealing our picks for the best design-minded gifts.
The futuristic, concrete-clad outpost of the London-based design museum is part of a larger effort to attract tourists to Dundee's burgeoning waterfront.