Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

At the base of First Canadian Place, a skyscraper in the city’s financial district, Karir Eyewear’s striking new flagship designed by local firm Drew Mandel Architects is an emphatic counterpoint to this architectural banality. A break from the otherwise rectilinear mall glazing, the textured façade hints at an immersive retail experience.

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Design Milk

JUNE 17, 2022

Germane Barnes’ award-winning research and design practice, Studio Barnes , investigates the connection between architecture and identity. They take this on by examining architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation. Today, Germane is joining us for Friday Five! Germane Barnes.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Flash forward to this year — the 10th anniversary of the competition, which honours the best in global architecture, design, concepts and more — and a record 1,200-plus projects from nearly 50 nations were submitted, suggesting just how much the AZ Awards has grown in impact, scope and stature. Read the Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Now, the studio offers textural and emotive hand-thrown objects, inspired by nature and embodying both tangible and visceral memories. London Plane candles are hand-poured and the perfectly imperfect vessels can be refilled or used as containers or small sculptures when empty. Both shown in Rose Quartz.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

Another New York institution, The Shed (the saving grace of the much-maligned Hudson Yards development), represents a transformative architecture in this regard: Its puffy, ETFE envelope rolls out on wheels to enclose, and embrace, an outdoor plaza. Lawrence Centre for the Arts appeared first on Azure Magazine. Lovely, yes.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 13, 2023

Graced with a number of street-facing windows and architectural details like exposed ductwork and original brick, the 287-square-metre showroom had an authentic industrial vibe that Dworkind embraced and enhanced through a few carefully considered moves.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

To celebrate Ukrainian architecture and design is more important than ever, and here we showcase ten great studios in the nation, a selection that we will continue building upon on our Instagram page. Regardless of aesthetic, the well-appointed interiors feature a deft layering of materials, textures and patterns.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The now 565-square-metre space deftly marries texture, striking forms and public space to create a cultural hub for the school. The extension juts from the dormitory building like a sculptural appendage. The post In China, an Expanded Art Gallery Enlivens a University Campus appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

But from this dewy landscape, a sort of sculpture garden quietly emerges. Inspired by both central Florida’s vernacular architecture and its wildlife, the civic and cultural hub translates its natural and historic surroundings into architectural expression. Large overhangs create shaded passages sheltered from the Florida sun.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For the collection’s more geometric offerings, such as Spandrel, Play the Angle, Proportional and Upward Bound, Interface’s design team looked to the bold lines and angular silhouettes of architectural infrastructure that helps to draw people together and move them forward. Lead image features the sculpture Upward by Richard Hunt.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Largely spared the bombings of the Second World War , Prague remains one of the most well preserved — and architecturally beautiful — European cities, with most of its urban centre now designated as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Utopia by Johan Pertl. Though closely tied to tradition, these entities have rarely rested on their laurels.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

Imagine Architecture : Explores creative architectural drawings from around the globe, organised by architectural style. Some examples: Taschen’s The Art Book : A visual dictionary covering 500 influential artists and their most famous pieces from medieval times to today. Features Le Corbusier, Zaha Hadid, and other big names.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

. “As the full impact of the pandemic started to take shape, we all appreciated that launching a bricks-and-mortar retail space, as online shopping was soaring, would be challenging,” says Trevor Wallace, whose firm, Reflect Architecture, designed the shop. So the owners and designers focused on what felt most real about IRL.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

2 Bao Pouffes by HBF PHOTOS: Pippa Drummond New York firm Alda Ly Architecture imparts its affinity for expressive form and colour to its debut furnishings collection with HBF. The post 5 Standout Collections Launching at NeoCon 2023 appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Design Milk

APRIL 14, 2023

It’s a fantastic sculptural object featuring a different surprise on every page. Perhaps this book, to me, is one possible iteration of good design: mixing color and science, playing with form and texture, removing all excess, crafting beautifully to end up with something that surprises and delights.

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Design Milk

APRIL 1, 2022

A long list of contract, residential, exhibition, spatial, and architectural projects follows. David’s work has been featured in Axis , Domus , Artforum , and Marie Claire magazines, as well as in the International Furniture Design for the 90s and California Interiors books. The Bauhaus. They created dishes and buildings.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

The sconce’s circular face (which is offered in two sizes, 140 and 240 millimetre diameters) can be finished in a number of rough materials including concrete, Basaltina stone, anthracite, various marbles and teak, to integrate perfectly with all manner of architecture. O” Series by Artemide. Garota Catenary by Bover.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Enter Espace Mayenne, a 15,100 square-meter complex designed by Hérault Arnod Architectures that revives a former military site on the outskirts of the city as a vibrant sports and entertainment centre. The facade consists of three horizontally stacked ribbons made of identical geometric textured aluminum modules.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

A group of installations dubbed “Constellations” presented light sculptures (including Nanda Vigo’s “Light Tree,” shown here) inside of structures designed by Formafantasma. ” Appropriately, the display was anchored by a cloud-like glass sculpture by Lasvit art director Maxim Velčovský.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 29, 2022

I wanted to create texture on the building. It’s the ultimate sculpture carved out of steel and glass. The post Waiting for Gehry appeared first on Azure Magazine. “They kept coming at me,” he says. It’s not bland and it has humanity,” says Gehry. The City was very supportive of the façade,” says design partner David Nam. “It

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Yayoi Kusama created a sculpture for the North Building’s terrace. Inside, the galleries are restrained – more notable, as is apt, for their capaciousness than for any design embellishment – yet in a few key areas, SANAA has added unusual texture. The Inaugural Exhibition. Inside the new Yiribana exhibition space.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

What follows are four profiles of architectural projects from around the world, each with an original take on circular architecture and sustainability. Could the wood be repurposed for architecture instead? How Can Architecture Respond to Climate Change? How Can Architecture Respond to Climate Change?

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Azure Magazine

MAY 20, 2022

Displayed in a two-toned pink-red configuration, the system features ridged panels that mimic the look of wood slats — adding up to a backyard statement piece that lands somewhere between a log cabin and a Donald Judd sculpture. It can be made-to-order at any height, featuring any combination and configuration of 10 sculptural shelf shapes.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

When tasked with the recent renovation of an especially oversized — at 10 metres wide — NoMad loft, local firm Michael K Chen Architecture (MKCA) introduced a series of deft structural strategies aimed at breaking up the space and creating better flow. “It Accounting for flexibility and different uses was also key from the outset.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

When Sid Lee Architecture was hired to overhaul the common elements of Montreal’s Vogue Hotel (a Curio Collection by Hilton), it saw an opportunity to explore the relationships between space, light and material. The texture of plaster has a way of capturing light,” says Leblanc of the decision.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Naturally, the material continues to play a starring role in Persian architecture. With the vernacular material perpetually in sight and reach, it forms a unifying element of structure, texture and shade. The post In a Tehran Office Block, Brick Gets the Star Treatment appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

On their own, the pieces have a sculptural presence; in a grouping, they nest closely together in a way that is meant to encourage interaction between people. based Patkau Architects brought a series of sinuous plywood shelters to a frozen river delta in Winnipeg as part of the city’s Warming Huts architecture competition.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When viewed together, the designs that left the strongest impression on us over the past 12 months offer unexpected insights into the colours, textures, and shapes of the moment. Luxe textures. Our main observations: warm wood, long recognized for its comforting power, feels particularly resonant right now. Photos by Yong Joon Choi.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

At a time when home is top of mind, residential architecture has never been more relevant — not to mention bolder in look and scope. From stunning coastal escapes in the United States and Canada to a richly textured townhouse complex in Mexico City, the projects highlighted in AZURE’s January/February issue are thrilling cases in point.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Sculptural and austere, the contemporary fair-faced concrete structure, with its angular spire, could easily be mistaken for a church. A visual marker within the landscape, the spire reimagines lighting poles — a requirement of stadium design — as a striking architectural feature. In fact, it is a sports facility.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Adding texture and transparency, the facades and entryways also come alive in the evenings as warm light emanates from within. Here, the architects leveraged an awkwardly shaped corridor and transformed it into an architectural showpiece. All three buildings are topped with rooftop gardens, giving residents semi-private outdoor spaces.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This beam radiates out of the sculptural design, amplifying a barely-there presence into a dramatic focal point. Vector Series Lighting by Lukas Peet for A-N-D Inspired by the raw quality of Richard Serra’s sculptures, the Vector Series continues A-N- D ’s winning streak in producing statement lighting fixtures that are also pragmatic.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 21, 2023

A collaboration between Rose-Marie Guévin and Vincent Ouellet with Quebec’s Studio Haricot, the sculptural hempcrete installation rises from a pocket of mulch in a field of wheat. i The post Quebec’s International Garden Festival Returns to its “Roots” appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2020

Clad entirely in textured glass panels custom-designed by Lasvit to resemble traditional Bohemian slate roof shingles, it reads as a luminescent sculpture from the street, with access provided via Lasvit’s quieter inner courtyard. The marquee glass house faces Nový Bor’s Palackého Square with a glazed curtain.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Situated just west of the High Line – and the assortment of architectural bijouterie now flanking it – the new flagship for Pace Gallery, which now boasts 10 locations around the world, more than doubles the New York hub’s exhibition space and consolidates its operations. Then there’s the penthouse.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We are enamoured by new approaches to ecological architecture, work-life balance, multi-family co-habitation, high-rise technology and more. Wherever innovative architecture meets everyday needs while elevating life itself, our top houses of 2023 shows that great design has a big heart. Photos by Anson Smart, here and below.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

With its well-resolved Dau collection of upholstered seating and sculptural side tables for Stylex , Yonoh Studio delivers a successful solution for creating dynamic lounge environments. Originally launched in 2018 in circular formats, the tables garnered immediate praise for their sleek architectural style and modernist perspective.

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