Sentence examples for cutting-edge architects from inspiring English sources

"A Room for London," as it is known, is the result of a design competition run by two inspired clients — Living Architecture, which commissions and rents vacation houses designed by cutting-edge architects, and Artangel, which commissions contemporary art projects — to offer a unique, one-bedroom accommodation with some of the best views in London, and a program of live performances and events.

"In the U.K., a little cottage is usually your only option," says Mark Robinson, the director of Living Architecture (living-architecture.co.uk), which has commissioned five new twists on the holiday house from cutting-edge architects like Peter Zumthor, Michael and Patty Hopkins, and the Dutch firm MVRDV.

The show traces the innovative use of factory technologies by cutting-edge architects and designers -- among them Josef Hoffmann, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Mario Bellini and Philippe Starck -- who saw furniture design as part of their Modernist mandate.

By the 1920's factory production had become a fact of furniture life, and the challenge of using the new technologies -- the veneering and layering of wood, the strength and flexibility of metals and alloys, the malleability of plastics -- proved particularly irresistible to cutting-edge architects and designers who saw furniture design as part of their Modernist mandate.

Optimistically scheduled for completion in 1998, it will house Sony, Daimler-Benz and others in 19 buildings by cutting-edge architects.

In 2011, it hit the headlines with Turner Contemporary, a sleek gallery by cutting-edge architect David Chipperfield right on the historic harbour.

While he is a long way from getting zoning changes and myriad approvals, he has hired the cutting-edge architect Enrique Norten to start shaping the complex, complete with waterfront esplanade and sidewalk cafe, into a dream of urban reclamation.

*Should the reconstruction project have been awarded to an innovative, cutting-edge architect -- a latter-day Saarinen, in other words -- instead of firms known more as aviation and preservation specialists?

The architects said Frazer Wilde was among the first to change where corporate America worked in the 1950's, by moving to the suburbs and commissioning cutting edge architects and artists as well as the designer Florence Knoll, who designed the streamlined furnishings in the building and went on to form Knoll Furniture.

DESIGN STARS The annual design week brings together local talent and international stars like Karim Rashid, who lent his signature style to Majik Café (Dzordza Vasingtona 38a; 011-381-11-334-8690), with help from the city's most cutting-edge homegrown architect, Maja Vidakovic Lalic.

After seeing some of the cutting-edge prefab designs by talented architects, people often associate prefab only with modern design.