While heavy houses are better for earthquakes, lighter ones are better for flooding, says Taku Hibino, the CEO of Hibinosekkei, an architecture firm specializing in care facilities for children ...

They are instantly recognisable to UEA students past and present and are celebrated works of brutalist architecture. However, questions continue to shroud the future of the landmark ziggurats at ...

An artist’s impression of the Ziggurat Pyramid in Dubai, which, when finished, will be 1,200 meters tall and house one million people. Credit: Samuel Schmitt. CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons/Samuel ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

The New Architecture School (NAS) is an adaptive reuse proposal transforming the former printing facility into a new type of central campus. Aspiring to act as a dynamic urban entity, the design ...

Aalto University’s blog series Creativity Unfolded focuses on insights linked to creativity in a multitude of ways. Topics include design, technology, media, architecture, film, games, art theory and ...