Safdie Architects

Jan 19, 2024 | architizer.com | Chang Architectsas Architects |Safdie Architects |Wilkinson Eyre |Eric Baldwin

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Singapore’s architectural landscape reflects a rich fusion of diverse influences. This island city-state boasts a skyline adorned with new skyscrapers, garden homes and innovative designs that respond to cultural traditions and tropical weather. Singapore has also undertaken ambitious public and civic building initiatives to address climate change and rapid growth.

Nov 8, 2023 | adsmith.news | Safdie Architects |de Meuron

On November 1, BNIM Architects—a design office with over 1,000 employees founded in 1970 in Kansas City—announced that it is now an employee-owned design company. BNIM Architects follows SHoP Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects (both became employee-owned firms in 2021), IA Interior Architects, and Gensler to make the pivot.

Nov 8, 2023 | adsmith.news | Safdie Architects |de Meuron

Since the advent of Modernism, architects have become schizophrenic in dealing with the reality of time. This is a problem, because time and gravity are two universal forces. Architects are exquisitely good at dealing with gravity—it is present in everything we design. We study it and engineer its unrelenting requirements. Gravity does a symbiotic dance with structure. No matter how a design feigns weightlessness, its mass cannot be denied.

Nov 8, 2023 | adsmith.news | Safdie Architects |de Meuron

How two African architects prioritize culture, sustainability and social change through design Two award-winning architects use the power of design to make a bold statement for social change by creating more inclusive places for people to live, work, and play. This post was originally published on this site

Nov 8, 2023 | adsmith.news | Safdie Architects |de Meuron

It has been disheartening to hear, in both the press and in rantings by political commentaries, characterizations of the new Trumpist-MAGA speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, as the “architect of election denialism” and the “architect of Jan. 6″ Trump-led political destruction of the Constitution and of our democracy. One would think that architects everywhere would find this adversely alarming, if not disgusting.