Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
The new building is conceived as a cylindrical volume wrapped in mirrored glass, which will reflect the surrounding city and cause the building to blend with its environment.
Each project is multipronged including several separate wings or cabins, which together create the s ense of a self-contained village.
“The emotions you are left with in a building are what interest me,” says architectural photographer Rory Gardiner.
Concrete at Alserkal Avenue is a classic OMA contemporary construction, but built seamlessly into th e context of Dubai’s central arts hub.
Her extensive collection of design for tables, chairs, lamps and dinnerware took center stage at Des ign Shanghai.
Explore weightiness in Swiss museums, from concrete Brutalism to James Turrell's ethereal mountain S kyspace.
The 517,000-square-foot structure is set to open mid-year.
“There’s a convergence between the artificial world and the biological one,” says Carlo Ratti. “Our buildings, our cities, can start to respond to us as if they were living beings.”
By using in-house design to imagine and erect these inspiring spaces, the following eight architectu re firms took on a task that is just as challenging as it is exciting.