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 large open space and on site are complimentary spaces like a restaurant among others. It...
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 the world and managed by the Nadir Afonso Foundation owing to his death in 2013...
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 interior experience of a retail store located in the heart of the electrical and electronics...
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 of seamless vegetation features several high standing modern buildings. Along the wide Paseo de la...
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 it the promise to be a worthy replacement of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rail...
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 atmosphere designed by Studio Ardete that totally contrasts the warehouse surrounding of the whole establishment. Interesting...
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 in its most literal meaning. Designed by Affiniti Architects, this house at the Palm Beach...
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 notes for the then British Empire. The site had over forty derelict buildings that comprised...
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 coherent unity in a language that flows, contrasts itself and further regenerates into fantastic forms...
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 being transformed into a residential area. Löyly, as the project is called, is part of...
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 firm, Barozzi Veiga, is an interesting addition that strikes up a contemporary dialogue with its...
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 art and architecture looks like when fused into one another. The client, an art collector,...
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, Harbin became a crucial commercial and industrial hub for the country. The city has now...
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 office and a café. The extra spaces were required to not interfere or affect the...
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 Italy, the starchitect is not short of projects spanning humongous magnitudes. His latest venture, the...
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 plan was developed by Studio Libeskind. The Cloud sees MVRDV continue its exploration of vertical urbanism...
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 Kabeza as part of the organisation’s mission to boost education in Africa. The school, which...
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 to carve out its niche in tower design, a departure from conventional towers which follow...
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 as the imagination of angel-hood can be. The Crematorium Baumschulenweg, designed and built in Berlin,...
Architects have for a long time interrogated the possibility of "a city in the sky." With the continual densification of cities, it won't be long before architects, urban planners and city authorities will consider housing a mini-city in a single building the norm and not...
This year will see a new addition in the top 10 list of the world's tallest buildings. The 555 meter tall Lotte World Tower that is currently under construction in Seoul, is set to reach heights never seen before in South Korea. If the architectural visualisation for...
It is a battle of heights in the United Arab Emirates. The Burj Khalifa is such a widely known and extensively spoken of tower that its stories cannot all be written in a single article. Being the tallest of the tallest currently, this article had...
Two of China’s oldest artefacts more than modestly referred to as ‘miracles’ needed a place to call home. A man-made lake situated in Qujing City, China, was the location upon which this home would be built. The Qujing Culture Centre is a home befitting of...
Inspired by the concept of a space that creates transition between the exterior and interior, architect Luciano Pia sort the brilliance of nature. The design had a goal of achieving sustainability and to the architect perhaps there was no better way of demonstrating this than...
This project, Martin’s, brings into mind the Petersen Automotive Museum. Both projects intended to rejuvenate the landscape and give a different face to buildings that have existed for years. However, unlike the similarities in predicament, the solutions are each on the total ends of the...
Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects won the 2009 competition to design what has become the largest public library in Scandinavia also coupling up as a hybrid building accommodating other functions. Conceived as a stack of three volumes by the Danish architects, the building was part of...
In the coastal city of Assinie-Mafia in Côte d’Ivoire, a majestic church sprouts off the ground in a triangular form that oozes semblance to the white sands of the beach. Initiated by architects Guillame Koffi and Issa Diabaté, both of Koffi & Diabaté Architectes, the...
New York's NoLita (or North of Little Italy) will soon be receiving a new landmark by Pritzker Prize laureate, Tadao Ando. The electric and diverse atmosphere of Lower Manhattan with its vibrant nightlife, ample shopping and restaurant opportunities; provided a perfect spot for the high end residential...
Herzog and de Meuron has unveiled a new building for the Oxford University’s new school of government. The building whose construction was completed in 2015, was entered by students in late 2015 and is set to be officially unveiled in the next few months by...
Kenya's architectural profession has continued to transform for the better with excellent projects already done and more earmarked for the future. The Architectural Association of Kenya, in conjunction with Duracoat, has initiated a biennial award scheme aimed at recognizing excellence in architecture for projects designed...