El Faro del Comercio is an orange monolith lighthouse designed by the famous Mexican architect Luis Barragan and built by the architect Raúl Ferrara in 1984. This artistic monument is…
The new town of Kangbashi in northern China, which was planned to house over one million people, now only has a tenth of its original population. Chinese government officials invested…
“Beautiful things take time to build” and “God is in detail.” An excellent interpretation of the quotes can be seen in the Borujerdi Historical house standing in Kashan. Built-in 1857…
The earthquake and tsunami in East Japan in 2011, devastated many homes in the northern Tohoku region of Japan. One of the communities affected was a small fishing town on…
The late 1950s was the start of modernism in terms of architecture and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the iconic architects who played a huge role in…
Laurie Baker was an award-winning British-born Indian Architect, eminent for his leadership in cost-effective energy-efficient Architecture for his exceptional space utilization. For him, bricks are like faces. All of them…
One of the major architectural figures of the 20th century, Rober Venturi (1925-2018), helped shape the way architects, students and planners look at architecture. This renowned architect formed Venturi, Scott…
The sense and functional relations of building interiors are specifically defined with their colors and space definitions. Famous architect Rahul Mehrotra with his team RMA Architects designed The School of…
In the past few years, museum architecture has witnessed a drastic shift from being just a storage place for artifacts to a space of synergy with experiential design. And, as…
Architecture not only features the use of futuristic material and construction advancement in its designs but also encloses concepts that reimagine spaces to allow social justice and interaction among all.…
Placed next to the port of Hamburg, Germany is an old city of warehouses called Speicherstadt. Filled with multi-storey tall and lean brick buildings, the city has preserved the ambiance…
We are not the saviours of the world but we can recreate new situations. Lina is a Lebanese Architect who works on user experience and creates buildings like a “living…