When the recession hits a buttoned-up Los Angeles architect named Richard Best, what sensible path does he follow? He goes on a reality show. Hear his amazing-but-true experience on the Gulf World's ...
Frank Gehry's buildings are routinely described as organic, spellbinding and striking. His architecture was unconventional, challenging traditional forms and therefore divisive, but few, if any, could ...
Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...
We treat architecture altogether too seriously. Not only are basically no buildings being constructed that wink playfully at ...
With its massive block-long magnitude, its shiny blue glass exterior and its six-story height in a neighborhood of mostly low-slung shops and bungalows, the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood was ...
The cultural center is an architectural typology that has fascinated architects and urban planners for decades. Whether due to its multifaceted program, its often emblematic scale, or its potential to ...
The 2024 winner of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture is an ingenious rearrangeable multi-story pavilion designed to be quickly extended, moved, or reconfigured into whatever the community ...
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Around Building redefines small-scale architecture in Seoul
Walking along the Gyeongui-Jungang Line railway tracks in Yeonnam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, one encounters a peculiar building ...
Why the stark 20th-century architectural style is back in vogue. The Paul Rudolph-designed headquarters of the Burroughs Wellcome pharmaceutical company in 2020, shortly before its demolition. On ...
Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences. The United States expends untold amounts of money and human capital to keep its citizens uninformed ...
If you’ve seen a large building made entirely out of concrete built sometime between the 1950s and 1970s, you’ve probably seen the style of architecture known as brutalism. People have a lot of ...
A medieval castle filtered through the Gaudinian lens, a library that is pure magical realism, a rationalist totem, an art ...
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