architects

Workplaces that look like your living room; flexible, multiuse spaces; outdoor terraces. Today’s new hybrid work styles are reshaping the office buildings of tomorrow. Leading architects and real-estate developers are pioneering concepts aimed at workers who are splitting their time between home and office, and they predict these innovations will become mainstream in the years to come. Workplaces that look like your living room; flexible, multiuse spaces; outdoor terraces. Today’s new…

Shortly after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November, Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of online education company Coursera Inc., jumped into the technology to see if it could save him time.He began using the chatbot to draft company letters and notes, and asked his executive assistant to try the same for drafting replies to his inbound emails. She prompts ChatGPT based on how she thinks he would respond, and he edits the answers it generates before sending. “I…

What should we eat while Twitter burns? Maybe these adorable baby cheesecakes by artist Nick Cave? I’m Carolina A. Miranda, art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times. I’m here for the cheesecakes and the essential arts news:Tiny by design Among the many crushing problems facing Mayor-elect Karen Bass (as well as the City Council, which, frankly, has more power) is the question of housing. Los Angeles needs much more of it, especially affordable and supportive options, in all of its forms — and in models that move…

Our homes are, as comedian George Carlin put it, just a place for our stuff. But what if, asks a new generation of startups, all that stuff could just…disappear?Inventors, architects and designers all over the world have lately converged on ways to do just that. Their technology can make parts of apartments and homes, and all their contents, slide out of view at the touch of a button. Former researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ex- Apple and Tesla…

Technical architects or IT systems architects connect the technical and non-technical worlds of the business. The average total compensation of a technical architect in the United States is $137,578 to $371,772, according to data from the professional social network Blind.com. The architects are responsible for designing, creating, implementing and maintaining IT systems or software. These are the 56 best-paying cities for technical architects in the U.S. according to the more than 5 million verified professionals on…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has turned its considerable design expertise to the exclusive world of luxury yachts, with a new catamaran concept for Italian shipbuilder Rossinavi. Named the Oneiric, it's hailed as the shipyard's green technology flagship and could run fully from solar power on shorter daytrips.Assuming it actually goes ahead, the Oneiric will have a total length of 44 m (144 ft) and will be built primarily from aluminum. Its overall form is a far cry from the wild superyacht designs conceived by ZHA years…

Late afternoon, Friday 27 January 1922. The sky unzipped and snow began to fall in Washington DC. It came down steadily all night and right through the next day, shrouding the city. Trains were evacuated, cars abandoned in the street. By 8pm on Saturday, 28 inches had fallen. Undaunted, 300 citizens decided to brave the translated streets to see the silent film Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at Crandall’s Knickerbocker theatre, a picture house so luxurious that the chairs in the orchestra pit were upholstered in silk. The…