New Haven–based architects Svigals + Partners worked with the community to create an inviting, colorful, and secure new campus filled with light and art.
The bright white trailers started arriving in late 2005, weeks after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to hundreds of thousands of homes along the Gulf Coast.
In 1958, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley, set out to study the personalities of creative people—specifically, 40 top architects living or working in the U.S. A July 2016 issue of the podcast 99% Invisible reexamines the IPAR study.
The installation in Lake Iseo, Italy, attracted almost three times the visitors anticipated over its 16-day run, uniting a wide spectrum of the public on a golden 52-foot-wide pathway.
Amsterdam’s Zuidas financial district is distinguished by the work of an impressive roster of architects, such as Toyo Ito, Rafael Viñoly, and Pei Cobb Freed, all of whose designs fit into a traditionally corporate atmosphere.
Light pollution hides views of the cosmos and causes a host of environmental problems. But architectural and landscape lighting can be designed so that it is sensitive to the night sky and ecosystems yet still responds to clients’ requirements.