Event spaces and offices for a fashion design company accomodate 120 staff, with an executive suite and a private penthouse apartment. This adaptive renewal of an historic Manhattan building preserves the brick facades while digging a deep stairway in the …
St. Gabriel’s by Roberto Chiotti takes on the traditional rectangular form of a Catholic church with a central worship space, spire, thick stone walls, and stained glass. From there, the church invites the public and connects them with nature and …
(sanfamedia.com– flickr/creative commons license) Next to Tianenman Square and The Great Hall of the People sits the National Centre for Performing Arts, one of many brand new grand structures meant to monumentalize China’s move to international prominance. Paul Andreu’s design …
(alex.ch– flickr/creative commons license) The Singapore Managment University has six schools and over 5,000 students. The library, pictured above, was recently completed along with several other sophisticated modern structures. (alex.ch– flickr/creative commons license) (Rudy Herman– flickr/creative commons license) (Rudy …
(stevecadman– flickr/creative commons license) Since it’s creation in 1939, the Battersea Powerstation in London has been an icon of brick structures and of power generation. It is no wonder then that many top architects have been interested recently in making …
(tracilawson– flickr/cc license) On September 27, New York City’s new Museum of Arts and Design will open to the public, replacing the 1964 “lollipop” building that once occupied Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture produced a …
Architectural Record reports that an income gap is widening in China, due in part to the rich megastructures going up that only profit the upper class. It seems every day there’s another report of thousands brutally kicked out of …
(HerryLawford– flickr/creative commons license) The Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London is Gehry’s first structure in England. The pavilion stands out in Gehry’s typical grand style. “I was thinking of garden parties, the warmth of timber, of stripes in garden …
(Visentico / Sento– flickr/creative commons license) The £350 million Highcross Leicester development in Leicester by Foreign Office Architects is one of several projects revolutionizing international style in architecture. Reaching for the Art Nouveau movement, a wide variety of materials are …
The American Institute of Indian Studies is preparing a database for documentation of architecture from India’s Mughal period. This study of over 100 monuments includes photography and site maps of mosques, tombs, and other monuments. Until its overthrow in …