Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has begun work on a clubhouse and gallery in the mountainous distri ct of Gaoyao, 62 miles (100 kilometers) west of Guangzhou. Set in the center of a lake, the project will be a pavilion for a new development of exclusive villas at the base of a nearby mountain. The Danish firm…
Temporary shelter is a bigger issue in today’s world than ever before as we face extreme changing we ather patterns, disasters and political instability. And there’s no group better suited to providing creative solutions to such social issues than the architecture and design community.
Last month, The Architectural Review released the shortlists for the Woman Architect of the Year and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. Featuring an extraordinarily talented lineup of women, the contenders are all at the forefront of design, and hail from around the world: China, England, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and…
Embracing a hybrid blend of eclectic architecture, Taiwan's built environment reflects both localize d and international building trends.
There has been a proliferation of striking contemporary designs for mosques emerging from architectu re studios in recent times, with Henning Larsen, BIG and Rux Design all producing radical reinterpretations of this age-old typology. London-based firm Amanda Levete Architects may have conceived the most modern mosque yet, though, triumphing in a key competition to design a…
Six years ago, a perplexing anomaly sat on display in New York City’s Museum of Art and Design (aka MAD). The object, a wood chair, appeared to be solid at the top, but the legs faded into nothingness as if they were dematerializing right before our eyes. This oddity was no physics experiment gone awry,…
These innovative precedents explore the diverse formal and spatial organizations being created for s tops in six different countries.
An initiative cofounded by the Canadian firms RAW Design, Ferris + Associates and Curio, the annual Winter Stations Design Competition is an open-air art installation that strives to bring Toronto residents outside in the coldest months of the year. The competition called for architects, artists or designers to intervene on the existing lifeguard stands stationed…
Today's mixed-use urban designs provide an exceptionally high level of prescription compared to plan ning efforts of the previous century.