The twin-turreted building has followed in the footsteps of Battersea Power Station, being transformed into luxury homes and ...
By now, you may be familiar with biophilic design — it's the idea of integrating nature into design to enhance our connection to the environment. Sustainability, wellness and harmony are usually part ...
Louis Vuitton, of course, is not one to do things halfway. Here, the vast atrium anchors five floors of retail pleasures, with a library, a café, and a chocolatier—all three firsts for the ...
With the Jewish Museum in Berlin, opened in 2001, Libeskind established himself as a pioneer of deconstructivism, a style based on the illusion that buildings were lifting off, bursting, imploding, or ...
The first building to include a fully pendentive dome, Hagia Sophia is a paragon of Byzantine architecture. It was built as a Christian church by emperor Justinian I in 537, but it now serves as a ...
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Architects are bringing nature home
BIOPHILIC design integrates nature into design to enhance our connection to the environment. Some architects are using one of its elements to striking effect: trees. The Ford Foundation in New York ...
The Ford Foundation in New York boasts a 12-storey-high atrium filled with magnolias, eucalyptus, jacaranda, cryptomeria, ironbark and pear trees. The Winter Garden atrium in lower Manhattan’s ...
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture is a leader in design education and research. Offering a fully cooperative professional program, Waterloo Architecture is the only Canadian school of ...
In 1947, Anderson Hall, designed by Staub and Rather of Houston, provided a new home for the School of Architecture in a prominent location on the main academic quad. John Staub had been Cram’s ...
A vast atrium is located at the centre of the museum Conscious of his lack of knowledge of Islamic architecture, Pei embarked on a global tour in search of what he called its "essence", which he ...