In May, Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted that he would be “selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.” A few days later, he listed…
Germany’s Ruhr region is boasting a new landmark: After a four-year-long effort, Swiss architectural venture Herzog & de Meuron has now unveiled the extension of the Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg.…
Like to slip off your work gear and gaze into a fire on weekends? Pritzker Prize-winner Architect Alejandro Aravena hollowed the gigantic tilted volume of this brutal beach home along…
In his thirty-five-year career in structural engineering, Bruce King built several structures—from skyscrapers in San Francisco to an aircraft in Miami to many resorts across Tahiti. But it wasn’t until…
Architecture internships have today become more than a line on the CV of an architecture student. They have now become a career-defining process that will add to the student’s skill…
When the French, Portuguese, and Dutch sailed to Tamil Nadu in the 1500s, Chennai was blessed with some beautiful churches. The beautifully built churches of the city attract not only…
At a time when the world is suffering the consequences of nature’s backlash — the pandemic, cities are under tremendous pressure: to not only get smarter but also imbibe the…
“At Perkins&Will, research is part of our DNA. We’re creators and curators of intelligence.” Reads the company’s website. “Our research improves lives, enhances places, and contributes to the common good,”…
Every child has daydreamed of sitting inside or on top of a white puffy cloud. As children, we imagined them to be more like fluffy hovering wads of white cotton…
Architects are now exploring the importance, necessity, and newer ways to allow sunlight into spaces; measures to control and regulate the quantity of light entering and its distribution. In the case…
A city or town that carefully preserves the ways of living developed in the past and passed on from generation to generation, through several customs, societies, practices, places, artistic expressions,…
Staggering numbers of random, predictable building typologies built wherever land was available by whoever got there first were characteristic of the early days in the Kowloon Walled City. Hundreds of…