Grandview Heights Secondary Jaiden has demonstrated an aptitude for learning new skills during his three-week work experience in January of 2024. His valuable contributions consisted of working through and transforming 2D and 3D model details into clearly displayed and straightforward illustrations, which could be presented to the clients. Jaiden displayed proficiency in working with […]
Building on the foundations of the New Urbanism movement, today’s architects are approaching suburban expansion as a tool for urban revitalization. Architizer’s Tech Directory is a database of tech tools for architects — from the latest generative design and AI to rendering and visualization, 3D modeling, project management and many more. Addressing the ecological, economic and […]
The clothing company Aether’s retail store in San Francisco, part of the city’s Proxy development, is made out of three shipping containers. Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they’ve been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. “We […]
Many North American cities have spent recent years debating the future look of their low-density residential side streets. In Vancouver, 2024 will likely be the year that future starts to take shape. In many of these neighbourhoods that are still made up almost entirely of detached houses, housing prices have soared in recent years, but […]
“What the Lower Sioux is doing is the most compelling and forward-thinking thing that’s happening in hempcrete today.” A Minnesota tribe is at the forefront of efforts to introduce a futuristic building material to the United States, with a first-of-its-kind manufacturing facility expected to be completed in April. Grist reported that the Lower Sioux, who […]
Has keyboard development turned a corner or gone round the bend? Whether the evolution of curved pianos will follow a similar trajectory remains to be seen, but the audience at Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall got a taste of what the future could look and sound like last night when a curved piano was used for a […]
Master Planning & Development Binche Keyoh Way, Fort St. James https://surfarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/D5_Clip-1_20231218_100552.mp4 Binche Business Centre Binche Whut’en retained SURF Architecture to provide initial Master Planning for their Business Complex so as to provide opportunity for their business owners and citizens. Ownership of the Business Complex will be held by the Binche Keyoh Development Corporation and the […]
What is old is new again when it comes to Canada’s national housing policy. The federal government announced today it is reviving a previous housing policy now about 80 years old, which was created in response to the immense demand for housing after the Second World War. Federal Minister of Housing Sean Fraser says the […]
Architizer’s A+Product Awards has officially launched! Get your products in front of the AEC industry’s most renowned designers by submitting today. Environmental awareness has become one of the fundamental drivers for innovation in architecture. There are currently thousands of groundbreaking products in development that have been conceived by the minds of radical thinkers, each to […]
Transparent wood could soon make its way into touch screens, skyscraper windows, and car dashboards. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to create transparent wood, and he published […]
