Photo © Benny Chan
It's hard to believe that the Skyline Residence, perched on a ridgeline in the Hollywood Hills, had a small budget for the neighborhood and an unusually challenging site. The house is a comfortable, sensitive home situated and organized to both protect residents from the elements and let them enjoy views and light.
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RECORD’s photo galleries contain thousands of images submitted by our community of readers. On a biweekly basis, we present a top-ten list of our favorite contributions to the galleries, which feature everything from residential and green projects to architects’ drawings and architectural photography.
Pictured: The Grove/ Photo © Eric Laignel
An international mix of firms established strong identities for these new restaurants, located in challenging urban sites. Each project’s design plays with the architectural, historical, and geographic context of its settings.
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RECORD’s annual list of ten firms to watch
features emerging architects—working in cities from Berlin to Nanjing—who have created thoughtful investigations of form, context, materiality, and construction. But could they also represent the end of an era?
From Firms in Focus: Howeler + Yoon
If you haven’t visited our video library, you’re missing dozens of clips designed to inform, inspire and, yes, entertain you: Interviews with leading architects. Building tours hosted by top designers. Episodes of Good Design Is Good Business. And much more.
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Photo © Mark HornIn our special section covering the economy's impact on architecture, read the latest news about how firms are faring, who¹s laying off, the best places to find new projects, and more. Find out which major projects are on hold—and which are going forward. And discuss the downturn with other readers.
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Photo © Bill Ellzey
Architects often tuck houses into hillsides or hollows to establish a feeling of protection. But the four houses featured here express a freedom from the constraints of cover. By occupying valleys, meadows, or prairies exposed to the elements, they afford expansive landscape views and dramatic sky panoramas.
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Photo © Tim Griffith
San Francisco, host city for the 2009 AIA National Convention, has seen a spate of high-profile projects in recent years. We highlight four of them—by Libeskind, Piano, SOM, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien—in this month’s Project Portfolio.
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This month, we take a look at innovative earthquake-resisting strategies applied to existing Bay-Area buildings. They demonstrate that retrofit projects require at least as much seismic sophistication as new construction.
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This month we present the latest resilient flooring products in a range of materials and a double dose of tradeshows: 100 Percent, London’s biggest design show and CEDIA, the showcase for home theater and automation gadgets.
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Critic Robert Campbell offers some free advice to the new administration. His recommendations for President-elect Obama cover everything from a more meaningful federal role for architects to gasoline taxes.
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An international mix of firms established strong identities for these new restaurants, located in challenging urban sites. Each project’s design plays with the architectural, historical, and geographic context of its settings.
Alejandro Villarreal named his Mexico City firm Hierve, the Spanish word for "boiling.” It was an apropos decision for a firm that brings an ebullient mix of social responsibility, functionality, and spirituality to its projects. Also, learn about a wildlife sanctuary created by Wesleyan University's year-old design/build studio.
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Image courtesy arturmausbach
RECORD’s photo galleries contain thousands of images submitted by our community of readers. On a biweekly basis, we present a top-ten list of our favorite contributions to the galleries, which feature everything from residential and green projects to architects’ drawings and architectural photography.
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Photo © Peter Bennetts
Every month, RECORD’s sister publication, GreenSource magazine, explores one innovative solution to the challenges presented by designing for sustainability. This month, we examine how one Australian architect creatively incorporated a giant rainwater cistern into a vacation home.
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Photo © Kozo Takayama
Our annual survey of remarkable interiors includes 14 projects for which materials matter: A downtown Milwaukee bar by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, a minimalist Beijing restaurant by CL3, one of Tokyo’s latest Bathing Ape (BAPE) boutiques by Wonderwall, and a list of other projects that pair striking details with impeccable execution.
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Photo © Thomas Hart Shelby
Designed to evoke a particular aura—or many—each of these hospitality venues is defined by its lighting scheme. All share a similar program whereby a blank palette of surfaces becomes a canvas on which electrically generated light “paints” color and pattern.
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 Image © Robert Dale/Images.com/Corbis “ Client care” is more than a general notion of how to interact with clients. It’s understanding what clients truly want and making sure that everyone in the firm keeps that in mind as they do their jobs.
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