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Get an inside look at our city’s best architecture with @Archtober’s Building of the Day tours.

Throughout October, New York City’s design and architecture festival invites you behind the scenes to explore the iconic buildings that make our city great with architect-led tours scheduled for nearly every day, in collaboration with @centerforarch.

This year’s series includes tours of:

New Museum Expansion by OMA, Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center by Studio Gang, Calvary Baptist Church by FXCollaborative, Gowanus Lowlands by SCAPE, Tang Wing for American Democracy at The New York Historical by RAMSA, Welcome Pavilions at Storm King Art Center by WXY, Studio Museum in Harlem by Adjaye Associates, Nolen Study Room, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art by Young & Ayata, The Green-House at GreenWood Cemetery by Architecture Research Office (ARO), NYC Parks Luis Lopez Playground Modular Public Restroom by 1100 Architect, Condé M. Nast Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art by Beyer Blinder Belle and Peterson Rich Office (PRO), Marcus Garvey Village Extension by Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, Brooklyn District 3 Department of Sanitation Facility by Dattner Architects.

Sign up to tour a Building of the Day and explore more events all month long at Archtober.org

#Archtober #Architecture #Design #Festival #ArchitectureTour #BuildingoftheDay #BrandedContent #Sponsored #AIANY by @architectmag

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9 days ago

Can a 90-Year-Old Vase Capture the Personality of a City? Few objects in modern design have achieved the strange status of Alvar Aalto’s vase. It is simultaneously a piece of tableware, a sculpture, a souvenir of Finnish modernism, and one of those rare objects recognizable almost entirely by silhouette.
Ninety years after its creation, that silhouette is being asked to do something new: become a city.

To mark the vase’s 90th anniversary, @iittala has created the Aalto 90 City Vase Collection, a limited-edition series inspired by six cities with particularly strong design identities. Each takes Aalto’s familiar undulating form and gives it a different color and character intended to evoke its namesake metropolis.

Read the full article: architectmagazine.com/design/can-a-90-year-old-vase-capture-the-personality-of-a-city/

#alvaraalto #aaltovase #finnishdesign #scandinaviandesign #modernism Collage image of wavy vases in different colors by @architectmag

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15 days ago

Home wellness is often treated as an amenity. The bigger opportunity is designing it into every room.

Natural light, quieter interiors, clean air, calming materials, and stronger connections to the outdoors can help a home feel restorative without relying on a dedicated wellness space.

Sometimes the most meaningful design move is also the simplest: an operable window, a clear view of greenery, or a transition that makes the outdoors feel like part of the living space.

🔗 Follow the link in bio to see how architects are expanding the definition of wellness at home.

#ResidentialDesign #HealthyHomes #WellnessDesign #ZondaMediaSeries #UnderwrittenContent #Marvin by @architectmag

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17 days ago

Architects need detailed project data, but they also need a clear view of everything around the project.

When design information, environmental conditions, infrastructure, and community priorities sit in separate systems, teams can miss important connections.

GIS creates a shared spatial view that helps architects understand how a project relates to its neighborhood, city, and environment. The goal is not more data. It is information that works together.

🔗 Follow the link in bio to see how architects are using geospatial thinking to support better planning and design decisions.

@esrigram

#Architecture #DesignTechnology #GeospatialDesign #ZondaMediaIntel #Sponsored #Esri by @architectmag

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18 days ago

Building resilience starts with the energy plan. See how propane can help commercial facilities stay powered when the grid can’t. @propane_council

🔗 Learn more at the link in bio.

#EnergyResilience #GridReliability #BackupPower #PowerGeneration #BrandedContent #Sponsored #PERC by @architectmag

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19 days ago

A polished rendering can show what a design looks like. But can it help architects decide what the design should become?

Real-time visualization lets teams move through a project, test new viewpoints, adjust lighting and atmosphere, and explore how the design relates to its surroundings without relying on a fixed set of images.

Visualization is becoming part of the creative process, not just the final presentation.

🔗 Explore how real-time visualization is changing architectural design at the link in bio.

@chaos.vray

#Architecture #ArchitecturalVisualization #DesignTechnology #DigitalDesign #ZondaMediaIntel #Sponsored #Chaos by @architectmag

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23 days ago

Grid reliability is changing building design. New research reveals the gap between preparedness and true resilience. @propane_council

🔗 Link in bio to learn more.

#EnergyResilience #GridReliability #PropaneEnergy #BuildingDesign #Infrastructure #BrandedContent #Sponsored #PERC by @architectmag

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25 days ago

A distinctive façade can create maintenance concerns before it creates design excitement. Natural slate offers architects a way to pursue both visual character and long-term resilience.

It does not require painting, sealing, or routine weatherization. It is also described as non-combustible, impact-resistant, and seismic-resistant. The result is a natural exterior with texture and depth, without adding an extensive maintenance schedule.

🔗 Link in bio to see why architects and luxury homebuilders are reconsidering slate for contemporary façades.

@cupa.pizarras

#ResidentialArchitecture #ExteriorDesign #BuildingMaterials #ZondaMediaIntel #Sponsored #CupaPizarras by @architectmag

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a month ago

We’re excited to announce our participation in @Archtober!

Taking place October 1–31, New York City’s Architecture & Design Festival features 100s of tours, events, and exhibitions across the five boroughs and beyond. Discover what the festival has in store on Archtober.org

Highlights include exploring the city’s iconic architecture with the popular architect-led Building of the Day tours. At the end of the month, go gourd-for-gourd as teams of architects compete in the festival’s signature pumpkin-carving event, Pumpkitecture!

#Archtober #Architecture #Design #Festival #BrandedContent #Sponsored #AIANY by @architectmag

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Architects are constantly asked to balance appearance, durability, maintenance, sustainability, and budget. The problem is that some material decisions are still influenced by outdated perceptions.

Modern vinyl products now offer deeper profiles, more realistic textures, broader finish options, moisture resistance, weatherability, and low-maintenance performance. Third-party verification can also give project teams clearer information when assessing sustainability progress and supplier performance.

A material should be judged by its current performance data, not its former reputation.

🔗 Link in bio to explore how modern vinyl is changing residential specifications.

#Architecture #ResidentialDesign #BuildingMaterials #ZondaMediaIntel #Sponsored #VinylSustainabilityCouncil by @architectmag

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a month ago

New research examines how growing power outage risks are reshaping energy resilience strategies for commercial facilities. @propane_council

🔗 Link in bio to learn more.

#EnergyResilience #PowerGeneration #PropanePower #BackupPower #BrandedContent #Sponsored #PERC by @architectmag

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📉 ARCHITECTURE’S LONGEST SLUMP IS GETTING EVEN LONGER.

Nearly 3½ years.

That’s how long architecture firms have been dealing with soft business conditions—the longest downturn in the history of the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index.

And July didn’t bring the recovery firms have been waiting for.

🏗️ ABI: 46.6
👀 Project inquiries: 52.6
📝 Design contracts: 47.2

The numbers tell a strange story.

Clients still want to build.

They’re asking architects about new projects. They’re exploring possibilities. They’re keeping the pipeline alive.

But too few of those conversations are becoming signed contracts.

And the weakness is everywhere:

📍 South: 48.7
📍 West: 47.8
📍 Midwest: 46.7
📍 Northeast: 44.8

Every major sector is contracting too.

🏠 Multifamily: 48.4
🏛️ Institutional: 47.4
🏢 Commercial/industrial: 46.7
📐 Mixed practice: 43.2

Perhaps most striking of all: Commercial and industrial architecture firms haven’t reported billings growth in four years.

So what’s going on?

High borrowing costs, inflation concerns, expensive construction, and economic uncertainty are making projects increasingly difficult to finance.

The pipeline isn’t empty.

It’s clogged.

There are still projects people want to build. The problem is an economy that keeps making them harder to build.

🔗 Read the full story at the link in bio.

#Architecture #Architects #AIA #ABI #ArchitectureBillingsIndex #ArchitectureNews #ArchitectureIndustry #Construction #ConstructionIndustry #RealEstate #Housing #Multifamily #CommercialRealEstate #Design #Economy #BuildingIndustry #ArchitectureBusiness by @architectmag

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