The evolution of modern architecture burgeoned at the end of the 19th century with the innovation of construction technologies and materials. Oscar Niemeyer was one of the pioneers of modern…
One of the dying heritage buildings in the city of Kolkata, Clive house is one of the oldest buildings named after Robert Clive, the first British Governor-General. ‘As a dumb…
“More and more people within the planet are in look for an honest place to measure and therefore the conditions to realize it is getting tougher and tougher by the…
Situated on a lively public square, adjacent to a working-class neighbourhood, which directly overlooks the historic Rotunda da Boavista in the heart of present-day Porto, is the Casa da Musica…
In 1927, an Italian-immigrant barber named Domenic Parisi was beginning to lose his eyesight. Having cut hair for forty years, he took all $1,000 of his life savings and sent…
Crye Precision is a combat-wear and equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The new Crye Precision Headquarters is set up in a previously abandoned ship-building factory in what…
Also familiarized as the Hieronymites Monastery, in Portugal, the Jeronimos monastery festoons the banks of the Tagus River. This erstwhile monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome personifies Portugal’s potential…
In order to redevelop the Montparnasse District in Paris, the deputy mayor Jean-Louis Missika of the Urban Planning department of Paris initiated a competition. The competition was won by a…
With a very unique vision and a portfolio consisting of bold and outspoken designs that do not fail in making a statement, comes an award-winning firm from the Netherlands, MVRDV.…
High-rise buildings emerged during the 1960s as an important building typology to address the developing requirement for expanded density in downtown areas. This structural arrangement planned to give the greatest…
The Milwaukee Art Museum is an iconic contemporary building overlooking lake Michigan in Wisconsin, USA. Founded in 1888, it was formed when Milwaukee Art Institute and Layton Art Gallery merged…
The Secession Building is designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, a young Austrian architect between 1897 and 1898 as a place for exhibits of modern art. This 1000-square-meter Secession Pavilion is…