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Top 10 Architecture Controversies Of 2012
The Orange County Center in Goshen, New York, faced demolition this year. Copycat architecture, greedy developers, threatened buildings, student protests: 2012 definitely had its share of architecture...
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Jerusalem’s New Designer Wardrobe: What Libeskind, SANAA, And More Are Adding...
Eden Center’s tower by Daniel Libeskind, via skyscrapercity.com The bustling Machne Yehuda market in Jerusalem is a hectic strip of everyday shopping in the holy city’s heart. For over a century, this...
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Cats: The Urbanists Of Our Time
Image via Time Out In our hyper-connected Information Age world, trends go in and out in a flash, but two solid movements have proved tenacious in recent years: the rise of cities, and the imposition...
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Celebrating 750,000 Facebook Fans: The Best Comments Ever
Architizer is all about bringing the architecture conversation out of the echo chamber and into the public domain, and we have Facebook to thank for helping us make that dialogue a reality. Sure, one’s...
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Save The Pan Am Worldport At JFK!
Since the demise of Pan American World Airlines (Pan Am) in 1991, the fate of its sometimes-iconic, sometimes-maligned Worldport at New York’s JFK Airport has been hanging by a thread. Delta Airlines...
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Colorful Camouflage: Painting Buildings Brushes Problems Under The Rug
The movement to provide increased affordable housing in cities across the world is gaining momentum as the pace of rural to urban migration continues to accelerate. The internal reorganization of...
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Professionals Comment On The Pritzker Prize’s Relevancy
Denise Scott Brown. Photo via The Pritzker Prize Jury’s snub of Denise Scott Brown has shaken the architectural community, and the debate has only intensified since Women in Design launched its...
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Happy Bastille Day? Why The French Revolution Is Passé
Image by Katherine Wisniewski This Sunday is July 14th—also Bastille Day—and if you took 7th grade history or saw Marie Antoinette, you know that the storming of the Bastille in 1789 was the spark that...
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A New Office Building With Multiple Personalities
Council House 2 (CH2) is a highly sustainable office building designed by the City of Melbourne and DesignInc. Most “sustainable” buildings are tight boxes, made bland by the necessity to incorporate...
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The Race To Revive The Rockaways Before Sandy’s 1st Birthday
In keeping with the snappy speed of New Yorkers’ work ethic, the effort to revitalize the peninsula of Long Island known as the Rockaways following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy was swift....
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