Find out about the history of Scandinavian architecture, including Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Icelandic styles. You'll also learn about modern architecture and what's next for the region.
Introduction The ancient civilization of Sumer, is one of the earliest civilizations in human history. The Sumerians were a people who lived in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, around 4000-2000 BCE. They achieved impressive technological advancement, including the development of writing, mathematics, and astronomy. Their social structure consisted of a ruling
Designed by Jacques Ferrier Architecture, The direction of the winds and the path of the sun have determined the floor plan for Water Park Aqualagon. Protected from cold north-easterly winter winds, nestling up to the forest, the aquatic park opens towards the west to make the most of cool breezes in warm weather.
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Biophilic architecture is redefining the ways with live with and in nature. Check out these 58 gorgeous modern examples.
Holy Family Shrine - Normally when the word church comes up, there’s usually a connotation with old, rustic historical grounds -- not with the Holy Family Shrine ...
We look at the grand career of the Spanish architect — and the recent book that captured his legacy
Image 12 of 19 from gallery of Gymnasium Régis Racine / Atelier d'Architecture Alexandre Dreyssé. Photograph by Clément Guillaume
Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades
Built by Grupo ARKHOS in Chihuahua, Mexico with date 2013. Images by Jorge Taboada Morón. The PIT3 project is for the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Chihuahua Campus. It is a research and innovation center. It is...
Image 4 of 44 from gallery of Party and Public Service Center of Yuanheguan Village / LUO studio. Photograph by Weiqi Jin
Byzantine domes on pendentives Graphic History of Architecture by John Mansbridge
Chilean architect Cristián Undurraga has shared a series of photos with us of Chile’s recently inaugurated pavilion a...
as part of réinventer paris, japanese architect shigeru ban submitted a proposed design for an area of land in paris’ 4th arrondissement.
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Completed in 2007 in Nebra, Germany. Images by Jan Bitter . In 1999, unlicensed treasure hunters unearthed a remarkable archaeological relic: a 3,600-year-old sky disc made of bronze inlaid with gold. It...
Image 3 of 30 from gallery of Library Toongnatapin School / Student Committee, Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University. Photograph by Beersingnoi
Celebrated architect Ricardo Bofill has passed away aged 82. In tribute to his immense body of work, we revisit La Fábrica, an abandoned cement factory outside Barcelona. The colossal (and ever ongoing) project saw the architect transform the existing property into a pioneering studio, with his family’s living space nestled inside
In the latest EDITION29 Architecture 009 (a fantastic iPad magazine), they delve into the Xeros Residence, a steel structure located in a part of Phoenix,
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Australian architecture practice Terroir collaborated with Danish firm Kim Utzon Architecture on the design of this bold extension to the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, which “wraps and folds” around the existing 1910 building.
Completed in 2013 in Japan. Images by Shigeo Ogawa. pace The project consists of two buildings, an archery hall and a boxing club, standing a few hundred meters apart on the grounds of Kogakuin...
Discover the latest Architecture news and projects on Ricardo Bofill at ArchDaily, the world's largest architecture website. Stay up-to-date with articles and updates on the newest developments in architecture.
A modern wood house in Ecuador, with stone and glass walls, and a wavy roof.
Maggie’s Centre is a charity that provides free practical and emotional support for people with cancer. The 462 sq metre centre, located within the..
Image 3 of 16 from gallery of La Fábrica by Ricardo Bofill: A Harmonious Blend of Past and Present. © María González
Image 21 of 37 from gallery of The Pinch Library And Community Center / John Lin + Olivier Ottevaere. Courtesy of Olivier Ottevaere + John Lin
Image 3 of 23 from gallery of Tautra Monastery / Jensen & Skodvin Architects.
The construction of high rise buildings did not commence until the late 1800's but sustained its development well past the turn of the century with the first
Barcelona wouldn't be the same without Gaudí's architecture.
flickriver.com/photos/javier1949/popular-interesting/ EDIFICIO CELOSÍA en SANCHINARRO, MADRID 146 Viviendas de Promoción Pública VPP para la EMVS (Empresa Municipal de Vivienda y Suelo) de Madrid en la Avenida de Francisco Pi y Margall 10 a 20, c/v Isabel Clara Eugenia, c/v C. Alcalde Henche de la Plata. Pau de Sanchinarro. Madrid Arquitectos Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs y Nathalie de Vries (MVRDV) con Blanca Lleó Fernández: 2004 (P) 2005-2009 (O) En la línea de colaboración iniciada con el edificio Mirador de San Chinarro por Blanca Lleó con el conocido estudio holandés MVRDV, surge el edificio Celosia, que manteniendo la volumetría general y la altura de las manzanas prevista por el planeamiento para este Ensanche, profundiza en cómo dar un espacio abierto a cada una de las unidades de vivienda, un desahogo exterior, una posibilidad de patio y de vistas y de aire; busca cómo enriquecer la vivienda en altura, facilitándole alguna de las características habituales de las viviendas unifamiliares. El conjunto, que ocupa una manzana completa, se compone de 30 volúmenes construidos y 30 vacíos, superpuestos en celosía, en pequeñas agrupaciones de viviendas y patios vecinales, lo que según los autores del proyecto permite que los pájaros, el viento y el sol atraviesen el edificio. La manzana se esponja permitiendo múltiples visiones cruzadas y perspectivas abiertas de dentro a fuera. Desde la calle y desde cada casa, se cruzan las vistas en múltiples direcciones; a través de los patios ajardinados suspendidos se abren insólitas perspectivas entre el interior arbolado de la manzana y el horizonte lejano de la ciudad y la sierra. El sistema de molde total permite resolver en tiempo y precio esta construcción prefabricada de estructura singular. Las 146 viviendas se resuelven con una unidad base y dos variaciones. Esto permite viviendas de uno, dos y tres dormitorios con estancias versátiles y espacios especialmente generosos para el aseo, el ocio y el almacenamiento. Todas las viviendas tienes una habitación añadida, la habitación exterior. En el resultado final se echa de menos, pese a su condición de viviendas sociales de bajo coste, una cierta afinación en los acabados y calidades de los materiales utilizados.
Könnte Holz der neue Beton sein? Schaut man sich weltweit die in jüngster Zeit fertiggestellten Holzhochhäuser an, scheint der Weg für diesen extrem..
This series is all about one piece of art in San Francisco. Charles O. Perry sculpted this piece, titled "Eclipse," for the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero in San Francisco in 1973. Here's Mr. Perry's biography from his website, www.charlesperry.com: "Charles O. Perry is a creator an artist of many dimensions who ponders the wonderful mysteries of the universe. His large scale and monumental sculptures celebrate and question the laws of nature. It is his intuitive investigation of nature's variables that provides the springboard for many of Perry's concepts. Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry's work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical and scientific complexity of its genesis. Perry has always extolled the beauties of nature and the nature of materials. Beginning with watercolors of his native Montana, inventing equipment to improve his tour of duty in Korea, celebrating Japanese reverence for natural materials in architecture and returning to America to study art and architecture at Yale University in 1954, he has embraced the "what if's". While Perry was at Yale it was the Chairman of the Art School, Joseph Albers, who encouraged Perry to play with materials and to "discover their true nature". As a student, Perry invented a complex building brick that needed no mortar and was unrestricted by the limits of size. This mathematically based form was the result of wonder whether the rhombus shape could be changed to become something else. The concept was intuitive, the result was visual art. The piece was later shown at Spoleto's Festival, 1969, in Spoleto, Italy. After graduating from Yale, Perry practiced architecture from 1958-1963 in San Francisco, California with the firm of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. During his architectural career he had developed many sculptural models and was offered a one-man sculpture show in San Francisco. At the same time, he won the Prix de Rome, a prestigious award granted by the American Academy in Rome for two years study in Italy. Prior to leaving for Rome in 1964, he had secured two major sculpture commissions. "The basic difference in the discipline of architecture and sculpture is that I can't force a solution in sculpture, where in architecture, one can arrive at an apparent 'rational' solution through continual work." For Perry, the appropriateness of the form is the final goal or criteria. Since 1964, Perry has concentrated on large scale public sculpture, the most prestigious of which stands in front of the National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. The piece, "Continuum", began as an exploration of the Mobius strip, a product of pure mathematics formed by joining two ends of a strip of paper after giving one end a 180 degree twist, thus creating only one edge. The center of the bronze sculpture symbolizes a black hole, while the edge shows the flow of matter through the center from positive to negative space and back again in a continuum. "When I set off to be an artist, I would avoid the arbitrary, esteem the orders of God in Nature, make things that were beautiful, try to make things that appeared to have no author, things you thought you had seen before; entwined with mathematics, geometry, topography, spinning, interlocking, always saying thank you God." Perry's sculptures are located in public spaces at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Harvard University, Boston, MA; University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT; Zeimu University Tokyo Japan; Indianan University Museum of Art, Bloomington, IND; General Electric headquarters, Fairfield, CT; IBM Headquarters, Charlotte, NC; Shell Oil, Melbourne, Australia and Singapore. There are about ninety major commissions throughout the world. As an industrial designer, Perry had invented three unique IBD prize winning chairs. His patents on chair design are licensed to Krueger International, Virco, and Steelcase. On occasion, Perry designs other objects of art such as a collection of jewelry and silver for Tiffany, NY and puzzles sold through the Museum of Modern Art. A chess set composed of two tubes that when taken apart contain all the game pieces is in the Design Collection of MoMA. In recent years, Perry has lectured on mathematics and art in conferences throughout the world. " SF0704-45007-HyattRegency
Designed by Cazú Zegers, LLU House is proposed in the concept of a "Family Lodge", which aims to house a complete family of 4 generations, and friends.
