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How do buildings become places? The newly transformed King’s Cross Station offers a few clues into the secret sauce that is required to tap into the ever elusive genius loci… … Keep Reading
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In World War II, the city of Cologne, Germany, was bombed by allied air strikes, and left drowning in ruins with a huge loss of lives and property. In those… … Keep Reading
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Where does one start when looking to put up a cultural building next to Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles? Like Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad of… … Keep Reading
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In 1892, the sport now widely known as ski jumping was born when a Norwegian lieutenant propelled himself 9.5 metres into the sky. Now, over a century later, Holmenkollen, a little… … Keep Reading
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The Expo ’98 Portuguese National Pavilion is a monumental piece of architecture, imposing itself like a sculpture of stature on the banks of the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal. Designed… … Keep Reading
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Via 57 West is set to be BIG’s inaugural project in New York. As a hybrid between the European perimeter block and a traditional Manhattan high-rise, the development has a unique shape… … Keep Reading
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Tudor Apartments is a high-rise residential project consisting of 14 intimate apartments in Tudor Creek, Mombasa. Enveloped in a mashrabiya structural shell, the building is distinctive in its creative design… … Keep Reading
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Forming a barrier between the northern and southern parts of Norway is Dovrefjell – a scenic mountain range that holds an indispensable place in Norwegian consciousness. It is here, at Hjerkinn,… … Keep Reading
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At Lincoln Road, Robert Wennett, a private real estate developer and art collector, had the desire to solve a critical urban problem in Miami Beach – parking. Having 20 years worth of… … Keep Reading
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Deep inside a village in Burkina Faso, the sun scorches the earth, dust flies into the air at will as strong winds ravage the calm. A brick library stands amidst… … Keep Reading
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At the heart of Beijing, four volumes coalesce to create an internal world of flowing open spaces – a reinterpretation of the classic Chinese courtyard that succeeds in imbuing an immersive… … Keep Reading
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Tucked inside the mountains that surround a famous lake called Coatepeque in El Salvador, this chapel overlooks breath-taking waters with a surreal sense of form. It is built within a… … Keep Reading
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Nadir Afonso, an artist of Portuguese descent, was famously known for his geometric-based aesthetics in his paintings and art pieces. Most of them are now displayed in great museums around… … Keep Reading
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With the gentrification of cities, the adaptive reuse of buildings has become a mainstream approach in the practice of architecture and interior design. Studio Ardete was commissioned to re-imagine the… … Keep Reading
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Overlooking the 686-hectare Chapultepec Park is a three-sided 57-storey skyscraper situated on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue in Mexico City. Around it, a metropolitan bursting with growth and a lot… … Keep Reading
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The World Trade Centre Transportation Hub may as well be the most important architectural project by Spanish starchitect Santiago Calatrava. The design that was unveiled in January of 2004 brought with… … Keep Reading
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For a purely need-based space, the members of staff in this pharmaceutical factory in Punjab, India enjoy a luxurious layout of intricate design alongside their meals. It is a comfortable… … Keep Reading
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In a world where properties close to the sea have skyrocketed in price, it has become more important that incredible views, deep architectural sense and world-class materials converge with opulence… … Keep Reading
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Bombay Sapphire commissioned Heatherwick Studio to design a distillery in England’s Hampshire. The gin maker had acquired a water-powered paper mill that had once been used to produce the bank… … Keep Reading
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The Getty Center is a modern design by Richard Meier in a picturesque hilly site in Santa Monica Mountains in California. It is a composition of buildings brought together in… … Keep Reading
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A long narrow structure that looks like it fell direct from a wood warehouse in space sits along the seashores of Helsinki, in the former Hernesaari industrial park that is… … Keep Reading
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The Szczecin Philharmonic Hall is a thing of beauty: a bright, translucent and upstanding object. Located in Poland’s city of Szczecin, the building that was designed by the Spanish architectural… … Keep Reading
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Rooted in the foothills of Tucson City, Arizona, is an interplay of boxes seating deep in the desert; and majestically so. Architect Kevin Howard’s creation is an expression of what… … Keep Reading
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Back in the 19th Century, Polish immigrants arrived in plenty in Harbin, China, to build the Chinese Eastern Railway that would connect the country to the Trans-Siberian Railway. With that,… … Keep Reading
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The Algard church just outside Stavenger, Norway, was designed for a vibrant community whose requirements for the project were not just for church purposes but also to include classrooms, an… … Keep Reading
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Renzo Piano’s work stretches several countries around the world. From London’s tallest building, The Shard, to the Kimbell Art Museum Extension in Texas and The Auditorium of the Park in… … Keep Reading
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The Cloud is a set of two residential towers by MVRDV that will soon grace Seoul’s Yongstan District’s skyline. The project is part of the new Yongstan Dreamhub Project whose master… … Keep Reading
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Mass Design Group teamed up with a charity organisation from the UK, A Partner In Education (APIE), to design Umubano primary school in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, in a neighbourhood called… … Keep Reading
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Folding of steel structures is the future of sky scraper architecture, as seen from the Hanking Center Tower in Shenzhen, China, by Morphosis Architects. The 73-storey tower utilizes folded angles… … Keep Reading
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No one knows where the final road will lead any of us, but Shultes Frank Architeckten want that road to be as glorified; as silent; as peaceful and as still… … Keep Reading