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During my short stay in Copenhagen last weekend, the Danish Architectural Centre (DAC), with its current exhibition “Your Harbour” was top of my list. Being a small country with over a thousand Islands, the sea has a special place in Danish hearts
BIG (Biarke Ingels Group) architects, based in Copenhagen and more recently New York, are a relatively small firm (only 160 staff) but have rock star status because, when they’re involved, things are not always what they seem.
There’s a rapturous glows inside when natural light is sensibly harnessed, especially, as diffused ambient light devoid of glare. The spaces gets transformed, the tinge and the mood alters dramatically as the earth follows its routine spin, hiding and revealing the sun through strata of clouds
The Queens Museum of Art (NY) opens its extension, which will double its size. It is an interesting venture because it highlights the issues relating to the tensions between traditional and more radical art and architecture.
‘Water works’ article for e-architect by Matthias Neumann. The German philosopher Schelling has been quoted many times over with the notion that architecture was to resemble frozen music.
The announcement of the architect and a design for the annual Serpentine Pavilion is now almost as much of an established feature of London’s summer social calendar as Wimbledon and Ascot.
Everything one can desire is right there—restaurants, art studios, libraries, college lectures, hospitals capable of taking care of problems that might otherwise require going outside—or can be imported effortlessly.
Lindsay Johnston, who ‘did’ architecture in Dundee in the early 1960’s and then worked in Ireland before emigrating to Australia, looks back at two architects who have had a major influence on his life and work
The Sikamino, house in Greece by the Tense Architectural Network features bold concrete forms of dynamic geometries orchestrating shelter, transitional areas and key horizon lines, blending with the immediate topography.
This paper considers an issue of eco-sustainable architecture development. It reviews an opportunity of constructing a new type of large-span translucent buildings and structures, capable of not only expanding significantly the reach of comfortable and safe human environment but also improving liveability of our cities.
As one born two years after World War II, I have been fortunate to be a paraplegic for the past 18 years—getting a head start on my fellow baby boomers. For architects, I have slowly but persistently developed design perspectives that should be useful to you.
Álvaro Siza architecture discussion by Dr. Peter Magyar – article re building design, homage to architectural approach of Portuguese architect
Two very discrete residential buildings get a spot this week. While spacious and isolated Equinox house sits quietly in the vast expanse of a hilly terrain, the compact and angular Casa Lude stand untroubled on the existing roofs of old house
Sputnik’s proposed Great Fen visitors’ centre in Cambridgeshire is practically invisible. The Fens, naturally marshy, were first drained in the 17th century so that the land could be used for farming
There are occasions where the process of accommodating human interaction with the senses through stages of creativity, experimentation, practise, production and perfection tend to dominate the order of spaces and articulation of massing in the final architectural solution
A mature and self‐confident city builds on its existing legacy. It doesn’t need to continually erase its heritage, whether recent or ancient, always desperately striving for the shiny and the new
Architecture originates in fiction – a mix of responses to people, places, things and ideas combined with the beliefs of designers and aspirations of clients – which precedes a building.