Urban planning is defined as the technical and political process that focuses on the development and design of land use and the built environment. It affects everything we take for…
Bamboo – a renewable natural resource, is often discussed for its potential to replace steel as a building material. Bamboo is known for its qualities of high compressive strength and…
Paris. As we all know, it’s the City of Lights. A certain level of enthusiasm fills the city due to its endless boulevards lined up with cafés and boulangeries, and…
The implementation of urban management strategies in design is facilitated through multi-scalar interventions in the urban fabric. On one hand, it may concern the design of the public realm at…
Sustainability has been a part of architectural design throughout history. Even before the technological advancement in construction building with local materials was already in practice using simple and smart sustainable…
MVRDV is an architectural office based in Rotterdam, Netherlands headed by Winy Maas, a former OMA employee. They won the competition to design the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen of Rotterdam’s…
Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands is one of the largest Natural History Museums, holding approximately 37 million specimens. The refurbishment and new construction of the building are done by…
The earliest civilizations of the world all grew around river valleys, their livelihoods were primarily dependent around water. Even today, water bodies continue to nourish the communities around them. While…
The internationally known firm, based in Oslo, Snøhetta, wins the 2020 National Design Award for Architecture bestowed by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The event took place virtually for the…
What is Vernacular Architecture? According to its etymology, “verna” means native and “architecture” is to design buildings, thus vernacular architecture is an architecture style that is built to meet the…
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter recently won a competition to design the new extension of Norway’s renowned Polar Exploration Museum “FRAM”. Selected as the winning proposal in an invited competition, Reiulf Ramstad’s…
Over the years the world has been facing drastic changes in the climate which affects the lives of all living things on earth including humans. Sustainable Architecture is an approach…