Quadrant 2 South – Crown Estate Regeneration

Quadrant 2 South London, Regent Street Regeneration, Building, Development News Quadrant 2 South, London Crown Estate Redevelopment Piccadilly – design by Barr Gazetas, Architects 28 Oct 2013 Quadrant 2 South London Quadrant 2 South Latest Regent Street regeneration project gets underway Lead Architect: Barr Gazetas Renewal of this large urban block is part of The … Read more

Architectural Levels: Building Presence

UC Davis Art Museum Sacramento - Architectural Levels

Firstly, congratulations to e-architect on the milestone of their 200th Newsletter, a tribute to their dedication and the spirit of the world architecture community: UC Davis Art Museum, California, USA, design by SO – IL architects

Architectural Personality: Architecture Soul

Paloma Nimes Music Venue - Architectural Personality

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

Keynsham Town Centre: Regeneration, Library

The application contains proposals for 20,000 sqft of new retail and restaurant space, a new civic building with One Stop Shop and library, community meeting and performance space, Council office space, plus new streets and spaces.

Architecture & Economics: Karolina Szynalska

Kunsthalle Zürich Switzerland Architecture Economics

Decadent postmodernism has never been fashionable in the homogenised country with the highest wealth per adult in the world. The architecture there has never had to aspire to social change. It did not have to dream about a better future

Architecture of Spectacle – Brian Carter

AAMI Park Melbourne - Architecture of Spectacle

This strange device, supposedly inspired by Buckminster Fuller and apparently developed to economize on material, also seems to hint at the roar of the crowd and the energy of the game within

Architecture as Spectacle – Joyce Hwang

Busan Cinema Center - Architecture as Spectacle

“Spectacle” is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or entertaining; especially an eye-catching or dramatic public display.”

Architectural Legibility & Didacticism: François Lévy

National Museum of Scotland Architectural Legibility & Didacticism

There are several blurred lines of distinction between architecture and sculpture, the chief one being the question of habitation. Architecture is primarily intended to be experienced by human occupation, sculpture by human observation. The former is subjective, the latter, objective

Architectural Beauty by François Lévy Architect

Newtown Creek Wastewater - Architectural Beauty

The Necessity of Beauty. “Great art likes chains,” said Nadia Boulanger. Applying Boulanger’s assertion to design begs the question: what is the nature of the chains that contribute to the most satisfying architecture?