More: Architecture
One City, Two Styles: The Architecture and Design of Four Seasons Hotels Bogota
There are two sides to Four Seasonsin the capital of Colombia:
One classic, the other contemporary. How to tell them apart? Just take a look
around.
Four...
Smart housing prototype shows promise in rapidly urbanizing Africa
Africa is urbanizing fast, as its population grows and many flocks to
cities in search of jobs, education and healthcare.
Studies show that hundreds of...
Interview with Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, winner of the 1998 Pritzker Prize and the 2002 UIA Gold Medal (among others), is one of the most prolific architects of...
Pakistani innovators design cheap and climate-friendly flat-pack homes for refugees
Three years ago, Mohammed Saquib and his fellow students Yaseen Khalid and Nabeel Siddiqui were seeking inspiration for their final year university project. The...
The sky’s the limit as architects design UN17 eco-village in Copenhagen
It’s a building project with towering ambitions—to use all 17 of the UN’s Global Goals as a sustainability blueprint for a 35,000-square-metre eco-village being...
Rio de Janeiro named as World Capital of Architecture for 2020
UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Culture Ernesto Ottone R, Thomas Vonier, President of the International Union of Architects (UIA), and Verena Vicentini Andreatta, Municipal Secretary...
The Art of Architecture and Garden Design
Exploring Hangzhou is like walking through a Chinese watercolour painting, enchantingly brought to life. The capital of China during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279),...
The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
One hundred miles north of San Francisco, perched on the edge of 10 miles of rugged, wind-swept California coast, is a touchstone of 20th-century...
Small and sustainable: “Tiny houses” could be solution to world’s housing problems
They’re small, self-sustaining – and they could revolutionize the way we think about housing around the world, as building materials become scarcer.
Measuring just about...