Museums have the power to inspire, educate, and entertain visitors in ways that few other institutions can match. For many people, visiting a museum can be a transformative experience, a…
The ambition to construct taller buildings and the rush to the sky is, in many respects, as old as time. However, the total height of the tallest skyscrapers has risen…
When we think of Detroit, what comes to our mind? Is it the detrimental history of redlining, inequities, city demographics, or the painstakingly beautiful architecture of buildings in Detroit which…
Historically, churches left their mark, then public institutions, and in recent decades commercial skyscrapers have been making a mark. A few decades ago, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure…
Architecture has the power to change the world; the power to give a form to the future, where it takes leaps and new wild forms in the future. Over the…
The “Redondo” is the last of a row of four buildings built at the beginning of the 20th century in the center of Coimbra. Its cylindrical shape responds to the…
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, born in a small city in Switzerland, is one of the renowned architects of the 20th century. After studying classical architecture in his town,…
Novatropes are 3D printed kinetic sculptures that use rotational motion and strobe light to mimic a calming illusion of infinite movement. The design is derived and synthesized from mathematical concepts…
“Take 60 parts sand, 180 parts ash from sea plants, 5 parts chalk – and you get glass” – 650 B.C., a clay tablet in cuneiform. Glass architecture is the…
The Kuwait National Assembly Building is the home of its popularly elected legislature. Designed in 1972 by the Pritzker award-winning Danish architect Jørn Utzon, and the construction completed in 1982…
For some communist monuments of Eastern Europe, the time has stopped in 1989, when the Soviet Union started its gradual collapse. While urban and social fabrics adapted to regime changes,…
Dubai skyscrapers in clouds Dubai, one of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates contains a perfect mix of history and innovation. It is not only a multi-layered land…
