Architecture

Before vertical gardens became popular, we used a simpler system to encourage plants to grow up the sides of buildings: the humble garden trellis. With a simple structure of wood or metal, you can cover a vertical surface with vines, make a divider be…

This article is part of our series “Material in Focus“, where we ask architects to share with us their creative process through the choice of materials that define important parts of the construction of their buildings.

El proyecto busca desde su concepción tener un impacto mínimo en el terreno y su entorno. Teniendo esto presente, se plantea la casa de tal manera que ésta se perciba más chica de lo que realmente es, llegando a ser hasta un 15% más pequeña que una vivienda promedio de las existentes en el club, priorizando la relación de la arquitectura con el terreno natural.

Trastevere is one of the most famous historical districts in Rome, and housing is in high demand. Many artists have lived here, including spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone. Here, a Luxembourg-based Italian family of four owns a small 323-square-…

Responding in part to recent debates on how big data will affect our built environments, Synthesis Design + Architecture have teamed up with IBM Watson Analytics to design an interior feature wall for the Watson Experience Center in San Francisco. The project, named Data Moiré after the dizzying patterns created by overlapping sets of lines, uses data from the influence of mobile phones on monthly consumer spending to create a precise screen material that defines the wall.