比亚克英格尔斯的新投资Supports Source—Marc Kushner’s Architectural Product Marketplace

Since its launch in January 2016,Architizer’s Sourcehas gathered a host of well-known participants—Studio Gang,IA Interior Architects, and Weiss/Manfredi among them.SHoP Architectswas one of the initial investors and recently, the platform has gained another bout of high-profile support from the architecture world’scurrent media darling Bjarke Ingels, along with firmsJ. Mayer H., Wendy Evans Joseph ofStudio Joseph, Work AC, developer Ironstate, and constructionstart-up Katerra. The online marketplace, developed by Architizer CEO and founder Marc Kushner and team, allows architecture, design, and construction professionals to comparison-shop products without a trade show or sales pitch. Instead, transparent prices, colleague reviews, and direct architect- or design-manufacturer communications frame the site as an Amazon-like shopping experience for the design world. Kushner’s goal is increased market transparency. “There should be no difference between specifying architectural aluminum panels and buying a salad spinner on Amazon,” he said in a statement.

Although in the platform only just celebrated its first birthday, the industry seems to agree. To date, over $3 billion worth of projects have used Source to compare and choose their products. Ingels is certainly a fan. Architizer is “the architecture community of the future,” he said. “To unleash the power of the profession, architects need to make big moves to change the way we do business. Source does exactly that.”