How to Give Your Product a Longer Life

If you want to create a product that won't be beaten by a competitor the first day it's launched: the safest way to success is to make a creative strategy with an understanding of the challenges and changes that occur during a product’s lifespan. Here is a list that should be established on just about every project. Continue

Find out what José Marini Bragança has to Offer the International Competition of Ideas

The Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea is holding a Competition for Ideas for the construction of its future head offices and the San Pablo block in Cordoba, Spain. Continue

10 things Morihei Ueshiba can Teach You about Creative Strategy

Morihei Ueshiba (December 14, 1883–April 26, 1969) was known for studyng several martial arts. His expertise in this field made him found his own art: namely Aikido. Aikido was developed as a fusion of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Explore what we can learn from this creative strategist! Continue

Advice on Managing Your Own Studio: Adam Robinson

When you've just made up your mind to open up a new studio and niche it on sustainable products, there's a lot of steps to follow. Get some great insights on how it works, follow the design director of Plus Minus Design: Adam Robinson, as he shares the beginning, vision and development of the Sustainable Strategists' studio. Continue

How Two Different Design Experiences Can Work Great Together

The vision for the AG café in Nagoya City Aichi, Japan, was to mix the concept of a gallery and a café. Kidosaki Architects Studio, with Satoshi Itasaka as the principal, aimed to offer a place where people could meet and look at art at the same time. Continue

3,000 High-End Units in Chongqing’s Central Business District

Chun Sen Bi An Masterplan & Housing in Chongqing, China is situated just west of Chongqing’s newly developing Central Business District: This 13.8-hectare (30-acre) site has views to the south across the Jialing River to central Chongqing. It's currently in design. Continue

Do it Yourself Fitting System

What if you could have your won "portable", well the Terrain Vague, by Architectures David Tajchman, is a house that can be placed everywhere, any way. Continue

How Architect Shin Ohori Play with Light and Shadow

PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEEKEND HOUSE by Shin Ohori, Architect of General Design co.,ltd. A request from the client, a photographer, was to build a space where light and shadow would interplay beautifully. Continue

Cloud City: 170 meters tall emblem structure

Cloud City is a tall emblem structure in Za'abeel Park. The design is David Tajchman's proposal to the international open architecture competition for a tall emblem structure in Dubai. Continue

Slits Replacing Windows

This house is made "only" by slits, there are no windows. The wall of 105 m lengths with 60 slits surrounding the site realizes the architectural space in this narrow and long site. No other architecture has ever been realized by such a method. Continue

The Aim of the Game: Albert Abut

Albert Abut, the Principal Architects of TRIPLE A ARCHITECTS PLANNERS was twelve years old when he decided to become an architect. He also started sailing with dinghies at this age. Continue

Architecture of Dancing Shadows and Light

The form of this architecture was constructed to make light and shadows dance, by Anna Nakamura+Taiyo Jinno EASTERN design office. Continue

Kimono Inspired Architecture

The client is a traditional craftsman who puts the crest on Japanese traditional clothes. The workshop area and the living area are separated but also connected. The client and his daughter need to have their work and home under the same roof. The crest making is a delicate work and also a business. Continue

Great Architecture Begins with a Promise: Max Strang

Max Strang, the principle of Max Strang Architecture graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture at the University of Florida, in 1994. He received a Masters Degree at Columbia University, and an honor award for design excellence. Before establishing his own firm, he worked for architect Zaha Hadid in London. Continue

Spirit in Space & Light: Battleground of Invisible Forces

Knut Hamsun, Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer, fabricated new forms of expression in his first novel Hunger. He went on to found a truly modern school of fiction with his works Pan, Mysteries, and Growth of Hamarøy near the farm where writer grew up. Continue

Making a Building Flow with Nature

This construction by TAKAO SHIOTSUKA ATELIER is a banquet hall, along with a marriage ceremony hall, in Oita-city, Oita, Japan. The client requested that the ceremony hall should at least be able to consist of 40 people. Continue

YOYOGI: How to bring modern life into a 80 m2 house in Tokyo

The Yoyogi is a 80 m2 house in Shibuya ward, Tokyo by Front Office Tokyo. The mission with this project was to construct a house that consisted of a rather small area in central Tokyo and then give it a modern look. Continue

Company Chairman of SHH, David Spence: Fight to be the Forefront of People’s minds

As founding partner of SHH and Company Chairman, architect David Spence has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. He’s the client director of the company and takes care of all residential projects in their studio. Continue