The National Art Centre, Tokyo: A Spatial Manifesto of Cultural Flexibility and Visionary Architecture The National Art Centre, Tokyo (NACT), is an unusual model of a publicly funded cultural centre…
Look at the buildings around: grand, expansive glass facades, towering heights, iconic. These types of buildings dominate almost every city’s skyline. Everyone is moving towards big apartments, housing complexes, and…
Listening Before Designing Sometimes, ideas arrive with great excitement—full of promise and vision. But behind every powerful concept lies a quieter beginning: observation. Long before strategy or drawing, the process…
Architecture is shaped by diverse movements belonging to different periods that have contributed to the development of societal needs, cultural shifts and technological progress. The evolution has culminated towards the…
Why do humans need community? ‘Humans crave community’ is a phrase humankind has widely acknowledged as accurate. Since humans established the first few civilisations, there is evidence that people built…
Historically, the cities built around us have been designed by and for men, neglecting women’s needs and their lived experiences. The built environment reflects the hierarchies of power that exist…
While we encounter spaces and the feelings in them, walking through some spaces feels like somehow, they belong- not to function, not to aesthetics but to the surroundings, to the…
Rethinking the Order of Progress When imagining innovation, it often comes hand-in-hand with new technology. Sleek gadgets, digital systems, and automated networks dominate most visions of the future. But what…
James Inedu-George Nigerian architect and urban thinker. He is the founding partner and design leader of HTL Africa Ltd and HTL Asia Plus, leading teams from all over the continent…
Urban planning in rapidly evolving cities struggles to meet the emerging needs of urban communities. Tactical urbanism is a flexible approach to urban planning that transforms spaces using low-cost, scalable,…
There is a quote by British German Art Critic Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, which goes, ‘A bicycle shed is a building; the Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.’ In simpler…
Gentrification is the transformation of urban neighbourhoods through investment and redevelopment, often resulting in the displacement of lower-income residents. At the heart of this transformation is architecture. The design of…