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The art of traditional 3D modelmaking by hand is giving way to an array of new digital technologies. Lisa Delgado takes a look at how they can be used to boost efficiency.
Moving into the 21st century, school buildings across Europe are lagging behind the times.
The key to designing smart buildings involves not only information technology, but also imaginative use of materials.
Lisa Delgado takes a look at four of the most inventive international restaurant projects.
Daniel Libeskind talks to Christopher Kanal about war, peace and a responsibility to history.
A new hotel in Krakow is the latest adventure into space by Berlin practice J Mayer H.
It has only been in recent years that UNStudio has established itself at the cutting edge of mega-scale projects.
Philippe Starck is internationally renowned for his refashioning of consumer gadgets and high-tech furniture.
Christopher Kanal caught up with Ron Arad ahead of the February opening of Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv.
41 Cooper Square brings fresh thinking about progress, community, and contextuality to New York City.
London is continuing to push forward the construction of its Olympic Park in time for the 2012 Olympics.
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has a long history of collaboration with fashion house Prada.
Having worked as a head of security for the world's most secure airport, Rafi Ron is an expert at keeping danger at bay.
"At the beginning I was not quite sure where it was going to lead to," David Chipperfield says of his recently completed Neues Museum refurbishment in Berlin in this edition of The Leaf Review. The neo-classicism of Friedrich August Stüler's original building allowed Chipperfield to bring a universal humanity to a building that 20 years before at the fall of the Berlin Wall was still a bombed-out ruin.
As new creative horizons open up in the midst of the global slowdown, young practices are coming to the fore. We talk to ten practices that are going to make waves in 2010.
The best design of the 21st century is both green and smart. As new systems enable architects and lighting designers to do unprecedented things with light, the challenge is to not make lighting flashier but to make it smarter. Bill Millard examines projects, including the acclaimed New York Times Building, that blur the border between the artistic and the functional.
