In Phoenix, sprawl creates cultural, economic, and architectural mash-ups both weird and wonderful.

Project Specs Agave Library Phoenix, Arizona Will Bruder + Partners << Return to article the People Architect Will Bruder + PARTNERS 2524 North 24th Street Phoenix, Arizona Will Bruder, AIA, lead design architect, Richard Jensen, AIA, project manager, Chris Balzano, RA, project architect, Dominique Price, RA, project architect, Marjorie Fichthorn Whitton, interior design Ben Nesbeitt, Rob Gaspard, Joaquin Roesch, design team Interior designer: Will Bruder+PARTNERS, Marjorie Fichthorn Whitton, IIDA Engineer(s): Rudow + Berry, Structural Ideas for the Built Environment, mechanical Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers, plumbing and electrical Hess Rountree, civil Consultant(s) Landscape: Ten Eyck landscape architects Lighting: roger smith

Will Bruder draws from the Wild West and the car wash to design an up-to-date library.

Students and faculty at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, will begin hiking the internal topography of the new Rolex Learning Center when it opens on February 22.

With more than 17.4 million residents and a growing middle class eager to trade its Mao-era housing for new apartments, Beijing has been building residential towers at a breathless clip for much of the past decade.

Project Specs Linked Hybrid Beijing, China Steven Holl Architects << Return to article the People Architect Steven Holl Architects 450 W. 31st street, 11th floor T: 212-629-7262 F: 212-629-7312 Design architects            Steven Holl, Li Hu Partner in Charge            Li Hu Project Architect            Hideki Hirahara Assistant Project Architect  Yenling Chen Technical advisors           Chris McVoy, Tim Bade Project Designers            Garrick Ambrose, Yimei Chan, Rodolfo Dias, Gong Dong, Peter Englaender, Guido Guscianna, Young Jang, Edward Lalonde, JongSeo Lee, Richard Liu, James MacGillivray, Matthew Uselman Project team                 Jason Anderson, Lei Bao, Christian Beerli, Johnna Brazier, Cosimo Caggiula, Kefei Cai, Guanlan Cao, Shih-I Chow, Sofie

A tectonic shift took place among winners at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF), as projects from developing countries accounted for a significantly larger percent of the honors than they had in the past.

Two firms our perspective on parks with an elevated public green space.

Project Specs High Line New York James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro << Return to article the People Architect James Corner Field Operations 475 Tenth Avenue, 10th fl New York, NY 10018 Phone: 212 433 1450 Fax: 212 433 1451 Diller Scofidio + Renfro 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1815 New York, NY 10001 T: 212-260-7971 F: 212-260-7924 James Corner Field Operations Project Leader / Landscape Architecture / Urban Design James Corner, Lisa Switkin, Nahyun Hwang, Sierra Bainbridge, Tom Jost, Danilo Martic, Tatiana von Preussen, Maura Rockcastle, Tom Ryan, Lara Shihab-Eldin, Heeyeun Yoon, Hong Zhou Diller Scofidio