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Wandering Through Uber HQ’s Secret Garden

Landscape architects Surfacedesign have created a surprisingly calming retreat for employees—and the public—tucked between the tech giant's glassy new San Francisco buildings.

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SHoP Architects Designs a Multi-Use Facility for Veterans at Syracuse University

The National Veterans Resource Center finds its forever home in central New York’s Salt City.

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Tech Start-ups Find a Shared Home at The Company Building in Manhattan

While the SHoP-designed project offers an antidote to many of Silicon Valley’s ills, a larger urban dilemma remains.

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With Pier 17, Channel Glass Brings a Contemporary Edge to the South Street Seaport

The building's icy, transparent envelope deploys an unconventional type of glass in a crenellated profile that, according to SHoP's Gregg Pasquarelli, suggests “almost a contemporary version of pier architecture.”

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SHoP’s SITE Santa Fe Expansion is an Ode to the City’s Heritage

The New York firm has expanded the art institution, transforming its humdrum museum building into a work of art in the process

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SHoP Used 4.25 Million Pounds of Copper Cladding for These Manhattan Skyscrapers

The luxury rental American Copper Buildings in New York City are named for the unusual material used on their facades.

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Disrupting Reality: How VR Is Changing Architecture’s Present and Future

Within a couple of years, virtual reality and related technologies have gone from speculative to ubiquitous. Now, in the hands of a few architects and designers, it has the potential to revolutionize the design process.

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We Should Forge a Nation of Hyperdensity

New book imagines, predicts, and proposes a rewarding urban life.

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DUMBO’s Dominotown: A Magnum Opus of 21st Century Urbanism?

A Brooklyn developer asks for more height in exchange for a livelier public realm. A good deal?

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With a Bit of Help From MakerBot, 3D Printing Goes Mainstream

3-D printing has already transformed design. Now, with affordable equipment widely available, the technology is going mainstream.