Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses…
Koichi Takada Architects’ scope for the National Museum of Qatar in Doha is nearing completion after 8 years in the making, after winning an international competition to design the interiors…
“Lindia Thalassa Resort” is a popular accommodation located in Rhodes, Greece. It was built in 2004 and consists of five blocks with 90 rooms and the main building, which is…
Dongsi Culture Centre, formerly known as Dongsi 77 Courtyard, is located in one of the 25 historical and cultural heritage areas in the old city centre of Beijing. It has…
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943 in Basel) builds slowly, rarely, and almost entirely in the Alps — yet works like the Therme Vals spa, Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Kolumba…
Ranked as one of the cities with the most skyscrapers, Shenzhen is the epitome of a contemporary megalopolis. In this dense urban context, the city’s policies focus on the quality…
The Dock Building, located on Jericho Beach in Vancouver, Canada, serves a large marina of sailboats. The facility provides washrooms and showers, offices for the Harbour Master, instruction space for…
The first name that probably pops up in everyone’s mind when we talk of women architects is none other than Zaha Hadid. Someone always opens to experimentation, trying new ideas,…
Manuelle Gautrand, the first female and also the first French architect to receive the European Prize for architecture. She believes that ‘Innovation is always based on disobedience’. Born on July…
Nuclear attacks happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and there lived a 14-year-old kid who wondered how those lost homes would be rebuilt! His name was Arata Isozaki. Born in Otia…
With the dawn of the modern era, when architecture saw the coming of minimalist principles, Frank O Gehry sought to break the rules. Then the world witnessed the coming of…
Popularly remembered as the American architect whose buildings were characterized by powerful, massive forms, Louis Kahn was born in a poor Jewish family in Pamu (presently in Estonia) on February…