Despite being America’s sixth largest city, San Diego has politely removed itself from the unspoken, but very tangible, race to dominate the skies. In an era where “taller is better”,…
21st-century travel has become its own aesthetic, with hotels today a symbol of this romanticized escape. Yet, rather than wooing travelers with spacious luxury, marble surfaces, and free soaps, capsule…
At the heart of Paris stands the cathedral of Notre-Dame, once disparaged by the cultural elite, now inexhaustibly revered as a landmark of France. For over 850 years, Notre-Dame de…
“Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” – Brundtland Commission Report, (World Commission…
“Our relationships with [architecture] are so intimate, so fundamental and all-pervasive as the settings of our lives, that we do not fully register just how much our buildings truly sustain…
Over 18 million hectares of land have burned in Australia’s unprecedented bushfire season. As a result, more than 1 billion animals are estimated to have died. During these past months,…
Throughout history, the cultural and symbolic values of every epoch and society have undoubtedly manifested through architecture. These built forms are not only visual translations of the advancement and developments…
As a child, I would stand barefoot in the corridor waiting for the moment; that perfect moment when the sun would finally visit our front window and our crisp white…
Earlier this year, as first reported by Architectural Record, an executive order entitled “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” was drafted for the Trump administration. Behind the order was the National Civic…
Through architecture, we seek to understand, and contest, what it means to be human. These man-made structures are an embodiment of every epoch’s socio-cultural values and beliefs. And yet, there…
In a world where black is the new black, at least for those ‘no-nonsense’ architects, it would be no understatement to say that color and architects have had a somewhat…
Articulated through a multiplicity of architectural expressions, our transition into modernity has been unreservedly marked by rapid fluidity and pluralistic built environments. In particular, this has given rise to the…