ELLEN VAN LOON OMA Ellen Van Loon, alongside six partners at the Dutch architecture practice OMA, has designed some of the most iconic modern buildings in the world, including the award-winning Casa da Musica in Portugal, and Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Two of her projects, The...

URBAN DESIGN Three urban development experts discuss how cityscapes are changing, and why modern architecture needs to focus on the needs of inhabitants, re-integrating man into the city. Stephen Phillips, Product Designer at Arup, discusses pollution and the plans to soundscape cities. Mark...

PROFILE: SHOHEI SHIGEMATSU Shohei Shigematsu, director of the internationally renowned architecture firm OMA, New York, is the creative force  behind such projects as the Universal HQ, the Whitney Museum extension, the China National Museum, and Prada epicenters in Shanghai and...

PROFILE: DAVID ADJAYE  David Adjaye was chosen to design Washington DC‘s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and is one of the UK‘s most successful talents in architecture. This year he topped the PowerList 2013, naming him Britain’s Most...

DESIGN GUIDE TO NEW YORK David Rockwell is one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects, responsible for LA’s The Kodak Theatre, New York‘s Nobu restaurants and the W Union Square (preview image), and Gordon Ramsay‘s London Maze. Crane.TV films him...

ARCHITECTURE: JOHN PAWSON British Architect John Pawson is renowned for his minimalist approach, and has designed stores for Calvin Klein to monasteries in the Czech Republic. This year, he was commissioned to redesign the old Commonwealth Institute in South-Kensington,the new home of the...

THE POWER OF DESIGN During last week’s London Design Festival, B&B Italia held the debate Can Design Save Europe? Crane.tv talks with Architecture and Design Critic for the Financial Times Edwin Heathcote, Director of the V&A Martin Roth, and Olympic Torch designers Jay...

The British Pavilion hosted the Venice Takeaway exhibition at this year’s 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition, commissioned by the British Council, began in April when ten teams went to ten countries to gather ideas to change British architecture. Crane.tv interviewed...

The first inaugural Wall Street Journal Innovator of the Year Awards began last year to honour the most creative, disruptive, and influential individuals in the world today. Chosen by editors of the WSJ, with input from a select group of experts in each field, the 2012 Awards will be...

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, of Copenhagen-based group BIG, has turned the post modern design philosophy of less is more into the proactive Yes is More. His latest book of the same title illustrates how the  extraordinary can shine through to the everyday. Video courtesty of...

Critically acclaimed architects Pernilla Ohrstedt and Asif Khan talk about their partnership, plans for the future, and the new project planned for London‘s Olympics. The Coca-Cola Beatbox is an interactive pavilion that will enable visitors to remix sounds of Olympic sports  for...

Chicago-based architecture practice Bureau Spectacular has converted London‘s The Architecture Foundation‘s Project Space into a pop-up living installation. Three Little Worlds is a graphic sequence of imaginary worlds, and Jimenez Lai, Bureau Spectacular’s founder, gives...