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The architecture world may have lost Zaha Hadid this year, but we’re fortunate to still encounter th e essence of her unique aesthetic in new designs of every scale. Prior to her sudden passing, the visionary architect began development on a number of projects and products that are now being realized by her eponymous firm. Among…
South Korea has emerged as one of the most highly urbanized countries in the world. Much of this dev elopment centers around its capital city, Seoul, where over half the population lives in high-rises. This dense urban condition has radically defined South Korea’s architecture and its formal language. Surrounded by diverse building styles from the country’s…
Popular Instagrammer Koyuki (@koyoox) is drawn to clean, functional lines and surfaces. The Tokyo-ba sed graphic designer’s photographs feature both natural and built spaces, but there is a congruency between the two. That is, the built environments featured in her photos are rational, calm and follow design principles that are anything but arbitrary or ornamental. {%…
Architectural photographer Steve King discovered Snorre Stinessen’s A+Award-winning cantilevered cab ins on Manshausen Island Resort while planning a vacation last January. Preparing to travel with his girlfriend Luiza to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights over the winter, Steve stumbled on a post that featured Stinessen’s Sea Cabins and immediately decided to make them a…
While climbing up the U.K. national rankings over the last 20 years, the University of Hertfordshire has also been busy developing an ambitious plan to completely reimagine its two campuses. After years of planning and months of construction, the first major part of this redevelopment was completed in March: a brand-new science center, by architecture…
Modern layouts and sleek materials make these tiny homes both cost effective and striking dwelling p laces.
A typical MIR artist is "a bit emo yet analytical, very stubborn and quite introverted."
Although it was later embedded in a specific philosophical and moral stance towards architecture, th e Brutalist movement originated in a more basic appreciation of the exposed, unadorned appearance of concrete — béton brut. The raw beauty of the building material, championed by Le Corbusier and countless others since, has symbolized not a visual poverty in…
Previously on Architizer, we have discussed photorealism, a genre of painting that aspires to the un canny illusionism of photographs. There is a converse to this, of course: photos that capture scenes of such boldness and clarity one would think they were looking at a painting. Instagrammer Yener Torun is an expert in such photographs. He…