Stalinist Architecture refers to an era, from 1922-1952, of architectural experimentation and project execution commissioned by the government of Stalin in the Soviet Union. This style was at its epitome…
The ancient world has been a mystery to researchers and spectators for centuries, and we have not yet been able to explore all its secrets. Ancient architecture has been a…
Egyptian civilization was a civilization of firsts and lasts. It was the first civilization to free itself from the constrictions of fundamental post-and-lintel construction and stone-age tools. It was the…
Baroque was a magnificent period of art and architecture during the sixteenth century following the Renaissance era that originated in Italy but soon expanded its wings all over Europe and…
Tudor architecture is an architectural style that emerged between the 15th and 16th centuries when the Tudor family came into power in Britain. It is a transitional architectural style with…
In 1884, The Plaza de Mayo formed as a city square that demarks the foundation site of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The public square expresses the elementary Argentine political history of…
The Reversible Destiny Lofts were built in 2005 in suburbian Mitaka in Tokyo. The project concept, coined by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins and termed procedural architecture, was the first…
Once the largest cathedral in the world, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, the dynamic structure has stood for more than 1500 years along the banks of the Bosporus Strait.…
The Alps are a magical land defined by natural beauty and quaint living. Shrouded in the romance of timeless alpine villages and folk architecture along the paths and forest roads;…
The burnt Cedar board is termed the Shou Sugi ban in Japanese. Although the initial origin of this technique is unknown however it is known to be used in the…
A butterfly roof, named after its resemblance, to the shape of a butterfly’s wingspan, is simply an inversion of a gable roof. As opposed to a traditional gable roof, the…
Recently, no other car manufacturing company is gaining attention as Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors, Inc. The Company, based in Silicon Valley, USA, is escalating the world’s transition to green and…