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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Designed by Architects Beazley, Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) is a $27 million, 70,000-square-foot facility located at the Research Park of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. LITE was conceived as an economic development initiative to enhance the development of visualization technologies and high-performance, 3-D computer modeling. The facility houses one of only six, immersive [...]

The City of Watsonville Water and Resources Center in Watsonville, Calif., was selected by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) as one of the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The 16,000-square-foot building designed by WRNS Studio, features the NanaWall® SL70 [...]

SAGE Electrochromics Inc. announced that its electronically tintable SageGlass® product is being integrated into the new Community and Student Services Center (CSSC) at Chabot College. In addition to SageGlass, the facility features a variety of other advanced sustainability technologies designed to achieve aggressive energy-efficiency levels and maximum occupant comfort. The CSSC and other facility upgrades [...]