San Antonio, Texas, USA
Designed by Lake|Flato Architects along with Alta Architects, the US San Antonio Federal Courthouse exemplifies the order and calmness of the federal court system through its use of local vernacular and natural stone.
The initial plan of Lake|Flato Architects was to erect a five-story structure and a lower bar building that enclosed an open-air courtyard but they had to reconfigure the courthouse into something much more conventional: a three-story structure with an atrium due to limited resources and the updated budget of the new federal government.
The architects sought to deliver a truly innovative building, one…
Wayne J Burgess is a renowned Automotive Designer and Design Leader, with a career spanning 31 years in the industry.
Wayne has a wealth of international experience in Automotive Design, spending a large proportion of his earlier career working for British Premium Manufacturers, from Rolls Royce and Bentley through Aston Martin and Jaguar Landrover to Lotus. In more recent years Wayne has held Design Leadership roles for Chinese manufacturer Geely and, from April 2021, Indian manufacturer Ola Electric.
Notably, Wayne was Chief Designer for the Jaguar F-Type sportscar, which won ‘World Car Design of the Year’ in 2013, and then…
Turkish shipbuilder Ares unveiled its latest corvette design, the ARES 76, at the DIMDEX 2024 exhibition taking place in Doha, Qatar, from March 4 to 6, 2024.
Naval News Staff
04 March 2024
Ares Shipyard press release
For countries seeking to safeguard their international rights and interests outside of local law enforcement entities’ responsibilities within their exclusive economic zones or in the international waters, the ARES 76 Corvette has proven to be a state-of-the-art option. Navies tend to identify multipurpose, relatively shorter in length, medium-displacement warship platforms due to evolving combat concepts. With its many features,…
Miami, Florida, USA
Designed collaboratively by American Prize for Architecture laureates SHoP Architects and the Mercedes-Benz Design Team, the 67-story Mercedes Benz Places tower will bring a new luxury car–branded residential project to Miami, featuring simple geometric bodies, interconnected to create a cube- shaped volume.
The development follows Mercedes-Benz’s design philosophy which is sensual purity.
“This philosophy, based on the duality of emotion and intelligence, consists of a hot and a cool pole. “The cool aspect represents very much the tradition of geometric German long-lived design that originated in the Bauhaus,” explains Mercedes-Benz’s Chief Design Officer Gorden Wagener.
“This crucial…
Tampa, Florida, USA
Commissioned by the Tampa International Airport, Matthew Mazzotta created Home, an installation that offers travelers a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of one of Florida’s most iconic and recognizable creatures—the flamingo
This exhibit creates the illusion of being underwater with the flamingos as it goes about its food search.
The larger-than-life scale of this pink bird transports observers into its realm, serving as a poignant reminder that we all inhabit the same home.
The Home installation has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and…
Los Angeles, California, USA
Founded on a mission to create eco-friendly wines with uncompromising quality and design, Noelle Roth Studio and Kinley Danger’s Juliet Eco-Magnum packaging disrupts the boxed wine category with their recyclable packaging, made from renewable materials.
Juliet’s Eco-Magnum has set the new standard for high-quality, recyclable containers as it is composed of a 100% recyclable paperboard outer.
For all the above reasons, the project has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Juliet Eco-Magnum produces 84% lower…
Los Angeles, California, USA
While being adjacent to the Lipetz House, a historically significant architectural home, the House Stepping Down A Hill by Barbara Bestor of Bestor Architecture celebrates modernist architecture, creates a dialogue between past and present, and offers majestic panoramic views of the San Gabriel mountains.
The House Stepping Down A Hill residence has been awarded a 2023 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The owner of the Lipetz House saw an opportunity to build a larger primary residence on the adjacent promontory.
The distinctive streamlined…
While Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have revolutionized the concept of tourist space flights with their reusable rockets, seats on those flights still run nearly half a million dollars for their brief sub-orbital hops that last only minutes.
The flights consume huge amounts of fuel and produce prolific volumes of CO2 and the rough ride to space and back is familiar to filmgoers who remember movies like Apollo 13.
Florida-based Space Perspective seeks to offer an alternative…perspective, on the experience of flying to space. In place of rocket boosters, the Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune carries passengers into the blackness of…
