Image 16 of 22 from gallery of Light as a Design Statement: Inspiring Ways to Manage Natural Lighting. Courtesy of Mendaro Corsini Arquitectos
George Garton prepared an extensive write-up on his UE4 scene Veiga Lighting Study discussing Brutalist style research, work with materials, water and lighting setup, and more.
Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar’s series “The Architecture of Light” explores the natural illumination of buildings around his native Beirut. His high-contrast black and white photos focus on the geometric shapes, lines and patterns cast upon the walls of concrete structures around the city. Playing with negative space and the tension between sunshine and shadow, Najjar’s compositions […]
Image 2 of 36 from gallery of “My Buildings Are Rides”: In Conversation with Antoine Predock. Center for Journalism and Communication. Image Courtesy of Antoine Predock Architect
the tower has four façades, 140 metres high and 25 metres wide. the aim was to precisely orientate over 30,000 facets of identical size so that the tower can reflect some of beirut’s monuments and remarkable districts.
Conceived by American studio Pneuhaus, Atmosphere is an immersive light installation which isolates the sun’s rays into architectural elements in space.
Time is defined as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole. But what do...
Casa Ming is a modern house in Monterrey, Mexico where each room flows into the next, keeping sight lines open to help lengthen the spaces visually.
Winners from Egypt and Australia selected.
Image 19 of 26 from gallery of Crescent House / Matthew Woodward Architecture. Photograph by Murray Fredericks Photography
A Kensington home is transformed into a contemporary space for a young family
LEDs have changed everything, except the physics of lighting. By Chip Israel
Image 21 of 49 from gallery of Swan Lake Bridge House and Viewing Tower / TAO - Trace Architecture Office. Photograph by Hao Chen
Color temperature plays an essential role in lighting design. Discover the history and science behind Correlated Color Temperature (CCT).
Adding sunlight to your home is a great way to lighten up spaces and rooms, but have you ever considered designing your architecture around sunlight in order to make it more of a feature?
The boxer-turned-urban-guerrilla who graduated into a Pritzker prize-winning architect is having a retrospective at National Art Center Tokyo.
In Berlin a communal prayer and teaching hall for Christian, Jews and Muslims is destined to promote inter-religious dialog. And a book has now been published documenting the architectural competition, visualizing the challenge innate in designing a religious building for which there are no historical precedents.
Cette chapelle ovale et minimaliste, conçue par les architectes berlinois Rudolf Reitermann et Peter Sassenroth, se compose d'une structure en pisé
Wallpaper* met with John Pawson during the construction of Casa delle Bottere in Veneto, northern Italy, in 2010. The house, that completed in 2014, was, for both designer and client, an exercise in slow architecture, recognising the time, thought and space required for the birthing of a masterpiece of minimalism.
Italian artist Massimo Uberti creates large-scale light installations that look like simple drawings. Using neon tubes and transformers, his site-specific pieces depict everyday objects, such as a window frame, chair or table. Speaking of the inspiration behind his work, Milan-based Uberti says in an interview: “I like to create architectures of light. I employ neon […]
White is the colour of new beginnings – Starting afresh. The colour white is a blank canvas paving the way for the creation of something that the mind can imagine.White, a positive colour, is associated with purity, virginity, innocence, light, goodness, heaven, safety, brilliance, illumination, un
Created by Virginia Dwan in the 1990s in collaboration with land artist Charles Ross and architect Laban Wingert, the Dwan Light Sanctuary is a secular space for contemplation.
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Photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has captured the collaboration of the Swedish fashion retailer COS and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto for this...
Tokujin Yoshioka has long been experimenting with light and space, creating some fantastic exhibits and sculptures to challenge the environments that we live in.
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.
Completed in 2008 in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium. The History In a small terrain of 16m width by 20m long in the middle of a flat Belgian landscape, raises a 30m high water tower built between 1938...
Louise Kahn had once said, “architecture appears for the first time when sunlight hits a wall”. It is true that light and shade is an essential component...
We were really proud to be invited by Alison Brooks Architects to make their 'Recasting' installation for the 2018 Venice Biennale. It required a highly creative, determined and collaborative approach in order to turn a brilliant concept into a buildable, demountable and transportable structure.
While street and architecture photographers are reducing their urban environments to their bare elements and seeking line, light and shadow, London-based still-life photographer Stephen Lenthall and paper artist Owen Gildersleeve…
