Shigeru Ban’s work with traditional materials and the timber structures continues in this Nine Bridges Country Club-clubhouse in South Korea, unveiled in 2009. The 20,000 square-metre facility is only a
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Located on Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance (HaZikaron) is the distillation of Israel’s Holocaust history. Yad Vashem was established in 1953 with the task of documenting the history of the Jewish
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Looking at the MIT Simmons Hall, it reminds me of how every city’s skyline around the world looks almost magical at night. It’s a wicked view depicting the shades of
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520 Park Avenue is a 52-story tower coming up in New York City expected to feature the Indiana Limestone cladding all through its facades. The high-rise building designed by Robert
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Ken Yeang is one of the most renowned environmentally conscious architects today. The National Library Building in Singapore required a state-of-the-art sustainable design that would serve as a landmark for
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In 2009, the real estate market in North America was at the home stretch of crumbling from a financial crisis. A small private equity firm known as CIM and based
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Built for a wine cooperative in a small village in the Ribera del Duero area, Peñafiel, Spain, Bodegas Protos is a winery designed from the concept of the wine-making process.
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The KingKey (KK) 100 skyscraper is a result of an initiative to transform the Caiwuwei Village from a low-rise dull residential community to a thriving high-density urban place. Located on
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Since the 13th Century, Western paintings had single vanishing points that would fixate the perspectives of works of art. Chinese artists on the other hand have long resisted the idea
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Studio Fuksas unveiled their first airport design in 2013, a new Terminal that will facilitate the travels of 43 million passengers every year. The Terminal dubbed Terminal 3 at the
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There are projects that come once in the lifetime of an architect, even great architects – twice or thrice if one’s really lucky. One such project is the Marina Bay Sands
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In a speculative development by insurance firm Aviva, a tower was required to be built in La Défense district in Paris. The competition carried out in 2008 saw Robert A.M. Stern
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Every country around the world has development goals that are set to be achieved over a certain period of time, mostly very long-term. Tulsa County in Oklahoma, United States has
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights designed by architect Antoine Predock is an expensive revelation of architecture’s impacts on boosting human rights around the world. The architect said this is
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The Yongsan International Business District (YIBD) Project R6 is a massive exploration of how far you can go when pulling building layers in opposing directions. The project is a single
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An interesting fold and twist to the London School of Economics campus, is the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects. It entails polygonal marvels and exploits
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Modernism has for a long time had a simple mantra: a house is a machine for living in. But with the world moving into a consciousness for sustainability, there is
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Concrete and light. Tadao Ando‘s principal focus on simplicity and minimalist aesthetics in the Church of the Light is silencing. The church is located in a typical Japanese suburb, a
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This glass and steel edifice and sculptural spirals that look like a hyper-modern gallery space or a building from a science-fiction film is, in fact, the MyZeil Shopping Mall, the
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One of the most prevalent challenges in designing for an art school is to impress. It’s no mean feat when you know that there are student artists and teaching artists
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Kengo Kuma doesn’t shy away from incorporating the contextual signature material of a locality into his contemporary designs. For the ArtA Cultural Centre, a competition that featured firms like BIG, SO-IL
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The Alesia Museum, by Benard Tschumi, marks an archeological site in central France and commemorates the history of the battle between the Romans, led by Julius Cesar and the Gauls,
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University has a commanding figure in the rather quiet parts of the Cornell Campus in Ithaca, New York. Morphosis Architects were commissioned
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All the way from the 1800s the city of Chicago has spearheaded the skyscraper movement in architecture and the tower forms get more interesting as they evolve. The Aqua Tower is a
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Bernard Arnault and Baron Albert Frère are two world billionaires in the luxury goods market who are not afraid of spending their money on good things like architecture, wines and
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When you want to expand an iconic building from the past, whom do you call? The case of Kimbell Art Museum was a long one emphasized by the fact that
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The Dazaifu Tenmangu is one of the most popular religious destinations in Japan. Built in 919 AD, the Shinto shrine sees about 2 million pilgrims a year, who come to
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Where do people organising a protest meet? In a forlorn church basement? In a student’s hall in the wee hours of the night? Around an aggravated member’s kitchen island? From the days of
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Santiago Calatrava is one architect who seems to breathe and ooze controversy with everything he designs. A structural engineer as well, he has been criticized of designing projects that are almost
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Herzog & de Meuron is one of the world’s most respected architectural firms. The practice has over the years developed a reputation for conjuring up some of the planet’s most original
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