Designed by the French firm Serero Architects and located in the heart of Amiens University in France, the new library and auditorium have been designed to constitute a central place for meeting around technologies as well as the catalyst of an intense campus social life. Natural lighting throughout the library helps create an opening an [...]

Even with modest improvements in the overall U.S. economy, nonresidential construction spending is expected to decrease by more than 20 percent in 2010 with a marginal increase of 3.1 percent in 2011 in inflation adjusted terms, according to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the nation’s leading construction [...]

Altoon + Porter Architects LLP and its client CPN received the Best-of-the-Best global design and development award presented by ICSC for their CentralWorld project in Bangkok, which was up against 94 other global competitors. ICSC’s Best-of-the-Best Awards acknowledge the most exceptional retail property in the world, and honors the professionals who designed and developed the [...]

CityCenter in Las Vegas, the 67-acre city-within-a-city, is celebrating the opening of Veer Towers and its model homes. Designed by internationally renowned architect Helmut Jahn, Veer Towers was created as an architectural and artistic landmark on the global scene and is CityCenter’s only completely residential development. Inclined at five-degree angles, its two 37-story glass towers [...]

Continuing education is an important part of most anyone’s career. After all, even if you’re one who has only recently finished school, it’s still not likely that you remember every single thing you ever learned from day one. Taking advantage of those ongoing opportunities that allow you to continue learning, even after the diplomas are [...]

Partners Joseph Fleischer, Timothy Hartung, Duncan Hazard, Kevin McClurkan, Richard Olcott, Susan Rodriguez, Tomas Rossant, Todd Schliemann and Don Weinreich and Design Counsel James Polshek announced the name change of Polshek Partnership LLP to Ennead Architects LLP. According to the announcement, the name change marks the culmination of a transition in organizational structure and design [...]

Now in its fourth year, Size + Matter is an annual cornerstone project of the London Design Festival at Southbank Centre, which explores the dynamic between materials, manufacturing and a leading designer or architect. Last year 763,000 people saw the installations by Marc Newson and Shigeru Ban and in this year will see commissioned installations [...]

Nature was the inspiration for architect David Serero of the French architectural firm Serero Architects, who designed the new cultural center of Meudon-la-Forêt. The building follows the orthogonal grid of the district while developing a close connection with the ground space. The project is organized around a central nucleus created by a theater of 300 [...]

Designed by glass installation artist Chris Cosma, the lobby inside 1515 Broadway in New York holds an architectural surprise: a 4,000-square foot crystal-clear wall of glass. The giant wall, titled “Alight Embrace,” features textured panels made of SCHOTT’s LF5 crystal glass. When producing the site-specific installation, Cosma aimed to create a transition space balanced between [...]

A three-storey glass atrium is the focal point of the recently completed Sparkling Hill Resort, located on a 188-acre mountaintop site overlooking Okanagan Lake in Vernon, British Columbia. Designed by Cannon Design and featuring Stella Custom Glass Hardware, the architecture of the resort has a fluid style that respects the natural landscape and the literal [...]