Tensile canopy protects public at new Ikea store

January 1, 2011  |  Exteriors, Features

You could say that Southampton is ruled by the sea. The Southampton Water estuary that fronts the harbor—and that flows past the Isle of Wight and thus to the English Channel—exerts tremendous influence on the physiognomy of this city of some 500,000 people, a bustling metropolis ranked …
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Shade canopy covers front of historic building

January 1, 2011  |  Exteriors, Features

Messrs. Adolph Ziegler, Ignaz Fanz and Anton Metler would be pleased that the building they built to house their sausage factory (the Ziegler Building, 1880s) is still housing food-related businesses in the Market Square district of downtown Knoxville, Tenn. more than 100 years later. Today, the bui…
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Drawing to inform/inspire

January 1, 2011  |  Exteriors, Features

Legendary tension tent designer Bill Moss used sketchbooks like most architects use restaurant napkins: to get the next fleeting idea down before it disappeared By Bruce N. Wright In 1955, Bill Moss, painter and illustrator, invented the PopTent, a tensioned-fabric tent, launching a revolution in ca…
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Dressing the apartment from the outside in

November 1, 2010  |  Exteriors

A mesh fabric façade helps reduce solar gain while adding privacy as needed. By Mark Zeh In 2008, Firmengruppe Gundlach, a consortium of German home construction, property development and property management companies, opened a competition for architectural proposals for the redevelopment of …
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Mesh canopy elevates Arizona museum

November 1, 2010  |  Exteriors

The sun stays hot and bright at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz., and the museum store’s floor-to-ceiling glazed windows needed a canopy with an aerodynamic look. Arizona architects M3 used a wire mesh to provide an uplifting look, the illusion of transparency, light reflection a…
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Meet at the station MGM

November 1, 2010  |  Exteriors

As the largest privately-funded project in U.S. history, the MGM CityCenter in Las Vegas is a sizable urban development within the larger city, complete with a futuristic second-level light rail transit system. Weaving between CityCenter’s six buildings and connecting two name casinos—th…
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Case Study 1: Unileverhaus

November 1, 2010  |  Case Studies, Exteriors, Features

By Mason Riddle HafenCityHamburg, Germany Not every 3,000m2 corporate edifice is both design savvy and über-green, but Unileverhaus has managed to achieve both. Indeed, the more than 80-year-old consumer products company (Dove®, Q-tip®, Wisk®, Lipton) had a visionary program for its…
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Dynamic canopy complements restaurant logo

November 1, 2010  |  Exteriors

Restaurateur and awning maker sit down together: voilà! There’s something about Capi’s Restaurant logo that inspires excitement and energy. Bright, dynamic, full of swirls and squiggles, the logo now has an equally dynamic (and squiggly) canopy to complement the signature restaura…
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Shading at Taliesin West

November 1, 2010  |  Exteriors

Updating a landmark building in the Southwest desert By Simón Andreas De Agüero In 1989, Charles William (Bill) Moss visited Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright’s well-known winter campus near Scottsdale, Ariz.) at the base of the McDowell Mountains in Arizona. Frank Lloyd Wright, in…
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Hypar hypar

September 1, 2010  |  Exteriors

London structural engineers Price & Myers have designed and constructed an efficient, transportable pavilion for the 2010 London Festival of Architecture, the two week city-wide celebration of all things architectural in the English capital. Price & Myers’ “Hy Pavilion”&mda…
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