Architecture News

  1. RIBA Launches 'RETHINK - 2025' Design Competition

    RIBA Launches 'RETHINK: 2025' Design Competition

    The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has launched 'RETHINK: 2025' - a design competition in search of big ideas for our post-pandemic world. With lives across the globe transformed, the RIBA is asking architects and students to consider what life in our new, post-pandemic world could look like by 2025. How will the pandemic have modified the way humans interact with space and one another, and how can design mitigate its worst effects?

  2. SHED Renovates Irwin Caplan's Laurelhurst Midcentury Home

    SHED Renovates Irwin Caplan's Laurelhurst Midcentury Home

    SHED architecture recently renovated Irwin Caplan's former home in Laurelhurst, Seattle, WA. Originally designed for Caplan, the illustrator who designed the poster for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and cartoonist renowned for his 'Famous Last Words' comic strip in ​The Saturday Evening Post, this mid-century home was both humble and grand - a modest one-story street facade harboring floor-to-ceiling windows with territorial views.