Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
In the midst of a pristine North African landscape, complete with olive trees and manicured grass, a traveler encounters a celestial white building draped in flowing curtains. What is this structure? he wonders. A private residence? An exhibition space? A mirage? The traveler is right on the first two counts, but not the third. Philippe…
Whether triangles are used in even conformations to create a shell-patterned skin of a building, or they are employed in a variety of sizes to create 3D surfaces, triangulated façades make a statement.
New Yorkers love to hate Times Square. While the district has a lot to offer, it’s plagued by massiv e crowds and the strangely oppressive smell of honey-roasted nuts. It isn’t hard to understand why people here are always in such a rush: They just want to get away from it all! But what if people…
A true treasure in the heart of Milan, the Palazzo Litta played host to a special showcase during Fu orisalone titled “A Matter of Perception: Tradition & Technology.” Berlin-based architect Diebedo Francis Kéré redesigned the palace’s central courtyard, transforming it into a “Courtyard Village” where visitors could meet and greet. All photography by Elisabetta Rizzato Born…
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…
Two Italian architects, Valeria Mercuri and Marco Merletti, recently won third place in eVolo’s 2016 Skyscraper Competition for their project ‘Data Tower.’ While much attention was given to the first-place winners, Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, for their horizontal skyscraper wrapping around the perimeter of a sunken Central Park, Mercuri and Merletti stepped away from…
For the last week in Milan at Salone del Mobile 2016, a simple question was explored with seemingly endless possibilities: How shall we live? Though entirely open-ended at first glance, the framework for the answer is actually surprisingly predetermined due to one growing, indisputable trend. As people flock to cities in ever-increasing numbers, the demand…
During the 2016 Milan Design Week, the colonnaded cloister of Basilica Minore di San Simpliciano, in the heart of the city’s Brera Design District, underwent a brilliant transformation courtesy of Japanese creative studio Nendo. The installation, titled 50 Manga Chairs, featured, as the name says, 50 different chairs lined up in a perfect grid filling…
Photography studios are a curious type of space. Not quite open-air art studio, and not usually havi ng a fixed formal layout, they are part of a range of building typologies that can morph and change according to needs. There isn’t a single template that guides the design of a photography studio, and as such, they…