Architecture

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The Toronto-based Meka World venture promises to deliver prefab homes to the masses.

A striking gazebo in the San Fernando Valley does away with the overwrought garden structure.

Ever witty and controversial, the RMJM partner – and Ryerson University lecturer – delivers some pointers to architects who are just beginning their careers.

A book of architectural blueprints and recipes brings new rigour to a traditional holiday project: the gingerbread house.

An architectural competition in the coastal town of Boscombe in Bournemouth, England draws beach hut designs from across the globe.

Sign of the times: A beautiful new housing center in Dallas, TX, by San Antonio-based Overland Partners Architects and Dallas-based CamargoCopeland Architects, wins a 2009 American Institute of Architects Award. Its client? That city’s homeless.

Call it American architecture’s best-kept secret. Few realize that the world’s largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings lie nestled together on a college campus in South Florida. In recent years, the leadership of Florida Southern College has painstakingly raised awareness and funds in an effort to restore their treasure trove of Wright structures to their former glory. The latest such building: a Theater-in-the-Round — Wright’s only such design — is currently on track for completion this June. And for those who can’t make it to Florida to check out the campus in situ, a new exhibit of Robin Hill’s photographs (such as the Water Dome shot shown above) at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York City opens May 19th.

Architect Kim Herforth Nielsen is founder of Copenhagen’s 3XN and a keynote speaker at the recent IIDEX/NeoCon trade show of contract interiors in Toronto. Herforth Nielsen does not come across as the self-promoting type, but his firm is a powerhouse: it has been winning major competitions and building concert halls, high schools and hotels across Europe. Senior editor Catherine Osborne sat down with Nielsen to discuss the evolution of one of Denmark’s most dynamic architectural firms.