How long would it take to climb the world's tallest skyscrapers? At a steady pace of about 20 seconds per floor, with no long rests, climbing all 163 floors of Burj Khalifa, the tallest of the ...
Unconventional architectural structures carry loads in ways that a regular grid of columns and beams does not: branching "tree" columns, stacked boxes, thin curved shells, folded plates, foam-like ...
Ukrainian designers have released interesting window blinds which can instantly turn the outdoor morning view into a bewitching urban nightscape. The trademark “HoleRoll” roller blinds are made of ...
Tasting Table reports that Dolce & Gabbana has teamed up with Italian kitchen wares company Smeg to produce a line of kitchen appliances that double as art. Think about all of your current ...
A great opera house interior has to do two jobs at once: carry an unamplified voice to every seat, and make an evening feel like an occasion. This guide is for design students and curious visitors ...
Richard Meier Releases a Light Collection Featuring His Famous Minimalistic Architectural Style American architect and former Pritzker Prize winner Richard Meier releases a 12-piece collection of ...
Nature inspired furniture is furniture whose form, material or structure is taken from the natural world: tables shaped like tree roots, chairs that follow the curve of a leaf, seating that imitates ...
Tower design is the design of buildings whose height is large compared with their footprint, from bell towers and observation towers to skyscrapers. In a modern tower the key decisions are the core ...
The French Laundry Kitchen Expansion In honor of the 20th Anniversary of The French Laundry, Chef Thomas Keller is renovating and expanding the restaurant’s kitchen, the kitchen annex and the ...
A result of the sculptor Janne Kyttanen's testing and experimenting with virtual reality and 3D printing was his 'Metsidian': a metallic dynamic sculpture combining two divergent materials. A blurred ...
Furniture designed by architects ranges from the 1929 Barcelona chair of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich to recent pieces by Zaha Hadid, OMA, UNStudio and J. MAYER H. Architects design ...
Singapore Bamboo Competition Winners The Singapore Bamboo Competiton challenged entrants to design a skyscraper using bamboo as either a structural or cladding element.The proposal had to take into ...
