Critical Halloween: I Don’t Think I Know What A Metaphor Is…

Ken Farmer as The Ghost of Eva Franch It’s been a pretty scary week here in New York City, what with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy and Halloween. On Monday we posted a wrap-up of the last Saturday’s annual Storefront for Art & Architecture’s Critical Halloween party, that was packed with plenty of spooky costumes and

Starchitect Trick-Or-Treaters

What’s scarier, Ando as a mime or Zaha as a witch? With their Costume Critique | Morbid Models post, Building Satire transformed Tadao Ando, Bjarke Ingels, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Jean Nouvel into creepy trick-or-treaters. Review them all after the break!




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Starchitect Trick-Or-Treaters originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 31 Oct 2012.

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Happy Halloween! 10 Awesome Pumpkin-Inspired Designs

If you couldn’t tell from our roundups of haunted houses and black homes, we at Architizer love Halloween! So what better way to (further) celebrate one of our favorite holidays than by sharing some super rad pumpkin-themed designs? From rotund orange buildings to elaborately carved jack-o’-lanterns, here are ten awesome, spooky, or just plain weird homages to our favorite gord. Click through to see them all!

Top 10: Black Houses

Think of a haunted house, and you’ll probably imagine a crumbling Victorian mansion. But there are plenty chilly, austere contemporary dwellings that could fit the bill as well. We’ve scoured the globe for the spookiest, most spine-tingling black homes—just in time for Halloween! Click through to see them all, and be sure to share your favorites in the comment section below.

Think you have a better black house, or any project for that matter? Submit it for an Architizer A+ Award here!

Storefront Throws A Wicked Halloween Party!

When it comes to U.S. holidays, Halloween reigns supreme. And when it comes to Halloween parties, nothing surpasses the annual bash thrown by NYC’s Storefront for Art & Architecture. This year, the organization hosted its much-anticipated “Critical Halloween” soiree at The Autumn Bowl, a century-old factory in Brooklyn converted into an awesome event space. Attendees were asked to devise a costume around the idea of “metaphor” (no pressure!). Click through to see what they brewed up, and look for more coverage on Storefront’s website in the coming days.

Photos © Sandra Pfeifer; GIFS @ Chris Barley

Storefront Throws A Wicked Halloween Party!

When it comes to U.S. holidays, Halloween reigns supreme. And when it comes to Halloween parties, nothing surpasses the annual bash thrown by NYC’s Storefront for Art & Architecture. This year, the organization hosted its much-anticipated “Critical Halloween” soiree at The Autumn Bowl, a century-old factory in Brooklyn converted into an awesome event space. Attendees were asked to devise a costume around the idea of “metaphor” (no pressure!). Click through to see what they brewed up, and look for more coverage on Storefront’s website in the coming days.

Photos © Sandra Pfeifer; GIFS @ Chris Barley