San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center is scheduled to open in 2017 and it looks like the 1.5-million-square-foot transit hub has the sort of transformative architectural design that can alter a city for the better. FastCo Design has more on the project and some potential design pitfalls intended as cost-savings that could alter the project for [...]
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One of the most annoying things about television shows, particularly sitcoms, is the characters live in these ridiculously nice apartments they could never afford in real life. See: any show that takes place in NYC. Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde makes this point drastically all too real by sketching the floor plans of various fictional television [...]
Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez created this delightful animated “ABC” list of 26 influential and important architects and their buildings. [via boingboing]
Happens to be in Fukuoka Perfecture, on the street leading straight to a shrine called Dazaifu Tenmagu. The coffee shop, which looks nothing like any other Starbucks on the planet, was designed by world-renowned architect Kengo Kuma to resemble the natural surroundings of the Shinto shrine. It makes me wish Starbucks would allow more locations to reflect their [...]
Before he became Ice Cube, O’Shea Jackson studied architectural drafting at the Phoenix Institute of Technology. That’s a pretty strange thought. What’s not strange is this video of Ice Cube driving around and discussing the architecture of Los Angeles and specifically, the Eames House. “They was doing mashups before mashups even existed. It’s not about [...]
London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower has just been completed. It was being built for the 2012 London Olympics — not unlike Paris’ Eiffel Tower, which was built for a World’s Fair. By the way, this thing is nearly twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower and a couple hundred feet higher than the Statue of Liberty. [...]
“From 1969 to 2001, the Twin Towers made countless cameos in Hollywood films,” Dan Meth writes. “Sometime featured prominently in the foreground, sometime lurking in the distance. This montage celebrates the towers’ film career with songs that capture the passing decades.” The 10 year anniversary of September 11th is less than two weeks away and [...]
Yesterday, we shared the renderings from Foster + Partner’s new Apple Headquarter designs. Today there are two addendums. 1. The city of Cupertino has released Apple’s proposal for their new headquarters and they look wonderful. The main building will house an Office, Research and Development Building comprising approximately 2.8 million square feet with several other [...]
The new headquarters was designed by Fosters + Partners.
