Abu Dhabi, the mighty capital of the UAE is well-recognized for its striking skyline of mesmerizing skyscrapers. One of its prestigious buildings is the Capital Gate tower which catches one’s…
It sometimes happens that architects overlook or wrongly estimate some factors while designing, which results in a poor, non- functional structure, which can cause harm to their surroundings. The vision…
Daniel Libeskind, born in Poland is a Jewish architect currently based in New York. His parents survived the holocaust of the second world war. Libeskind in an interview with Harvard…
Different world agencies, architects, and the public define and interpret a heritage building in different ways. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in the Convention concerning the…
Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) is a rating tool that helps people assess their building performance against certain national benchmarks. GRIHA focuses to minimize a building’s resource consumption,…
Istanbul, a city where history resonates in its predominant Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, also reflects the style of the empires which have ruled over it. Its royal heritage has been…
Form must have content, and that content must be linked with nature – Alvar Aalto | Finlandia Hall An exhibit manifesting the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk in all its glory, with Finlandia hall,…
HE Art Museum “You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that…
When I learned about the cupola of Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore, in a relatively dull and dry history lesson, something in me stirred. I was intrigued and instantly enamored.…
Mies was a German-American architect. He was a director at Bauhaus. His architectural style drew inspiration from modern times while expressing the spirit of this era. He coined the phrase…
Basuna Mosque is not an alien structure that landed on earth from outer space. On the contrary, for three hundred years, the site was reserved for the Abu Sait Mosque,…
Seoul National University Museum of Art is an exhibition of the Korean contemporary arts. Opened to the public in 2005, the structure stands at the entrance of the university campus…