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Competitions: The International VELUX Award 2022: call for registrations

Bustler

Martin is part of the investment panel in the Innovation Fund Denmark financing entrepreneurs, researchers and businesses. The VELUX Group is owned by VKR Holding A/S, a limited company wholly owned by non-profit, charitable foundations (THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS) and family. In 2020, VKR Holding had total revenue of DKK 22.6

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Right: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; images via Yale School of Architecture and ANTIQUES.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons). It's an excellent book, as is the second installment in Leslie's series of books on skyscrapers in Chicago, but the subtitle of the second book, How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City , indicates the incorporation of those wider contexts eschewed in the first book.

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