Twenty-two years ago, the Seattle-based architecture firm NBBJ was one of the first major companies to move back into Pioneer Square, the city’s then-neglected historic heart. The firm’s 200 employees helped spur a neighborhood renaissance. But having grown to 330 employees, and hampered by offices that were spread across six floors, in 2004 it decided [...]

Formosa 1140 is community housing building was designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) located in West Hollywood, California, USA. This project presents a challenging but influential opportunity in regards to the creation and inclusion of an urban park in a private development. The park is accessible to the public at large, not solely residents with [...]

300 North LaSalle is tower building in Chicago, United States was designed by Pickard Chilton. At 1.3 million gross sq ft and almost 60 stories high, the tower is a gentle giant and merges into its surrounding high-rise scape with ease retaining a classic outline and sympathetic detailing.

Housing nearly 60 floors of offices and several [...]

This is renovation of old building the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. And for the Standard Hotel in New York, André Balazs repeats the formula of good design and details, but on a brand new building by Polshek Partnership Architects.

The concrete building reminds of Le Corbusier works, standing over The Highline. The integration [...]

SOS Children’s Villages is community center for children was designed by Studio Gang Architects located in Chicago, IL, USA. Completed project building on 2008. SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings.

Multi-faceted public [...]

The designs for two temporary pavilions that will be installed this June in Chicago’s Millennium Park have been unveiled. Both pavilions — one designed by London-based Zaha Hadid and the other by Amsterdam-based Ben van Berkel of UNStudio — emphasize the importance of boldly imagining a better future for all, as Daniel Burnham and Edward [...]