Architecture and style Architecture has experienced layers of time. Every other layer considers the earlier layers’ inspiration, whether to evolve a more enhanced or detailed version of the past or…
Dubai! Every one of us must have heard this name once in our lifetime. It may be about ultramodern architecture, the lively nightlife or even the luxury shopping shown in…
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, born in a small city in Switzerland, is one of the renowned architects of the 20th century. After studying classical architecture in his town,…
Louis Kahn, a late Modernist, was one of the finest architects, known for combining modernism with the majesty of ancient monuments. Kahn’s work was seemingly simplistic but had layers of…
“Lighting is such a part of the visual arts – architecture, most of all – that I’m sure the best we can do today will be inadequate tomorrow. I can…
Have you visited Rotterdam? What is the one thing that comes to your mind when you think about it? Indeed, Rotterdam’s modern architectural style is one of the most intriguing…
“We designed a compact, directionless, self-contained building with flexible use potential.” – Marlies Rohmer (Architects) In its purest form, architectural space is a volume created by any carefully placed object…
Melbourne’s Eiffel Tower, as described by Mr. Danny Pearson, the Minister for Creative Industries of Australia, the new National Art Gallery of Victoria Contemporary building, is all set to be…
Tucked in the green blanket of Beijing, China, the Beijing sub-center library resembles a monumentally scaled pavilion, a civic space for the people to assemble. Following an international design competition…
August 15th marks our freedom from British rule—since India became an independent nation, raw and problematic but brimming with new opportunities and expectations. All eyes were on the nation’s newly…
The term Bauhaus means ’construction house’. It originally referred to the school of design which merged the former Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of…
Japanese architecture is often thought of to be simple and minimal. However, Japanese architecture can be the opposite. Influenced by architectural legends like Le Corbusier, and, in the earlier years,…
