Articles by Gabrielle Golenda

These traditional openings in buildings continue to inspire new applications of space and light amon gst all architectural typologies.

Most end-of-year holiday celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere tend to take place around, or at le ast nearby, a fireplace. In the grand tradition of Christmas, where as the story goes, Santa shimmies down chimneys to deliver presents to children worldwide on Christmas Eve. The fireplace is the central totem of Christmas gatherings — a place…

Introducing modular spaces allows separate structures to act as their own entity and at the same tim e function together as a cohesive whole.

In a time when catering to minds and bodies is insufficient, spaces must engage our eyes with a refi ned sense of aesthetics while we break a sweat.

It's possible to have the best of both rural and contemporary 21st-century agricultural facilities t hat hearken back to traditional agricultural typologies.

Their album investigates the profound link between the human experience of the built environment and musical association and affect.

Mirrors have had a place as a building material for a long while, from the Hall of Mirrors in Versai lles to the John Hancock Tower in Boston. Speaking to the later example, the glassy material is especially popular as glazing on windows and other external walls, as a rather attractive skin. Its characteristics – luminance,…

Under most circumstances, entire buildings, sections within, and individual rooms are designed speci fically for how they are intended to be used — generally speaking, how it all fits together. More uncommon are spaces with a primary purpose based on experience or observation. That is to say, an architectural construct that is not designed for efficiency…

As the story goes, during the recess between world wars, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a startli ngly modern home for a Jewish businessman and his new wife in Czechoslovakia. The Villa Tugendhat, a building of dramatic vertical and horizontal lines marked by a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows, managed to survive many instances of…