From Brutalism to Baku's New Airport: Behind Azerbaijan's Ascent to...
Like other oil-rich nations in the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan is in the midst of a star-studded building boom. The most recent addition to its collection is the Heydar Aliyev International Airport...
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estudio entresitio Maria Hurtado de Mendoza Cesar Jimenez de Tejada Jose Maria Hurtado de Mendoza Alvar Ruiz This single-family house is comparatively large at a little over 5,380 square feet; the...
View ArticleState-of-the-Art 3D Scanner Brings the Possibility of Mass Digitization to...
Emerging 3D scanning techniques are on their way to making physical museums obsolete. Last Tuesday, CultLab3D, 3D scanning facility for cultural artefacts developed by Fraunhofer IGD, demonstrated the...
View ArticleNaremburn House and De-Form Wall
The Naremburn House is a robust contemporary home that embraces longevity through form, material, and experience. Accompanied by a pool and integrated landscaping, the dwelling balances the...
View ArticleGet Hypnotized by a Hyper-Real Drone's-Eye View of Downtown LA
Fact: We really can’t get enough of drone photography. All somber and weighty military implications aside, the imagery we can capture of our cities and the architecture within them can be both...
View ArticleCongressional Report Calls Frank Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial a "Five-Star Folly"
Keeping up with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial plans is no small feat. In 2012, the Eisenhower family made headlines for their dissatisfaction with the plans and wrote a series of letters to the...
View ArticleRetail Design — Kabel Deutschland
Coming on strong. The attractive TV, online, and phone services of Kabel Deutschland are hard to miss. In order to achieve the same with Kabel Deutschland’s shops, the design and fitting concept has...
View ArticleThe Starchitecture of Ronald McDonald Houses Vs. Maggie's Centres: Who Wore...
Some have said that humanitarian design has eclipsed modernism, parametricism, and everything else as the architectural raison d'etre of the 21st century. The effects of war, climate crisis, flailing...
View ArticleMamun Residence
Chittagong is a southern city located in the tropical area of Bangladesh. The strong southwest wind flowing from the bay of Bengal and the year round scorching sun are two major considerations for the...
View ArticleHow to Transform Architecture Into Typography
Architecture is increasingly intertwined with graphic design, whether through signs, branding, or the thumbnail-scale design of buildings meant to be read on the screen. Sometimes the relationship is...
View ArticleSLIDING DOOR LOCKSETS
New Zealand manufacturer Halliday+Baillie is best known for its comprehensive line of modern sliding door hardware. They offer well-made solutions for any situation: pocket door privacy locks with...
View ArticleIn Japan, High-Tech Mirrored Light Tunnels Turn Any Space Into a Courtyard...
SunCentral, the folks who brought sunlight into the dark recesses of an abandoned Lower East Side warehouse in 2012 to show that the Low Line — a proposed leafy green park for Manhattan’s subterranean...
View ArticleCottesloe Villa
Located on a large amalgamated block in Cottesloe, with views to the ocean and the surrounding tree lined suburban valley, the design offers the conveniences of a modern family residence with a strong...
View ArticleA Swedish Bunker Turned Tranquil Retreat Flies Under the Radar
"Flying under the radar," or moving undetectable, is a good tactic for combat, and also genteel domestic architecture. This summer holiday house in Sweden is barely noticeable form the outside, and...
View ArticleSterling Bay Companies
Sterling Bay, one of the hottest investment/redevelopment firms in Chicago, wanted a unique, employee-centered space for its office headquarters in the heart of Chicago’s meatpacking district. Working...
View ArticleSeattle Children's Hospital
The new 330,000-square-foot, eight-story Building Hope: Cancer, Critical and Emergency Care Expansion at Seattle Children’s expands pediatric in-patient and emergency care in the region while...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now? The Legacy of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program
Almost as soon as it officially began in 2000, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program earned a reputation for its uncanny ability to call attention to architecture’s emerging practices. The...
View ArticleArchitecture Unhinged: Inside the Sliding Door Revolution
The fundamentals of our interior spaces are so vital to everyday architectural tectonics, yet the inspiring anecdotes and grand histories behind each object often go unnoticed. Consider the door,...
View ArticleArrow
A few years ago our client retired to the countryside near Hanging Rock. Our brief was to build a small gallery in the back yard, facing the bush, where he could hang his late wife’s paintings. The...
View ArticleCave Architecture: 7 Structures That Embrace Subterranean Style
It’s a blazing hot and humid summer in the northern hemisphere, and our coping mechanism of choice is to dream of escaping to far off places in exotic locales. The draw of experiencing new spaces,...
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