Louis I. Kahn was an influential American architect known for his unique approach to design and his mastery of form, light, and materials. A few months before his passing, he…
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The Brion Cemetery (1968–1978) in San Vito d’Altivole near Treviso, Italy, is a masterpiece of modernist architecture. Designed by Carlo Scarpa, the project establishes a contrasting narrative. Subtly, the project reveals…
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Mandai Rainforest Resort occupies a former service zone of the Singapore Zoo, transforming a utilitarian site within a protected nature reserve into a low-impact hospitality environment structured around ecological continuity,…
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Henri Quillé’s houses across Formentera constitute a disciplined family of low whitewashed dwellings that recalibrate vernacular forms to climate, terrain, and daily use. Aggregated rooms, shaded verandas, and introverted patios…
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Wandering through an apartment building or an older structure, it’s easy to miss staircases and courtyards. Institutional hallways may appear to be mere connectors or open spaces, but in reality, they…
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cut(outs) – ceiling, walls, and pillar is a refurbishment of a vernacular corner house in Faro that operates through deliberate restraint. While the exterior remains largely unchanged, the interior is…
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Every year, one question quietly reshapes the global design conversation: which countries are producing the world’s best designers today? The World Design Rankings (WDR) provide one of the clearest and…
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The buildings that endure are not accidents of robust construction or fortunate material choices. They are products of deliberate, often exhaustive, pre-construction planning. Planning that anticipates environmental stress, shifting functions,…
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The Catcher is a rural guesthouse and café near Xinchang Ancient Town, Shanghai, showcasing adaptive reuse architecture embedded within rice fields.
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One senior designer at Rockwell Group is quickly emerging as one of the most influential new voices in hospitality interior design. After her acclaimed work at 44 LLC on the…
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The Tiffany Façade Beijing introduces a vertically articulated glass layer to a four-storey retail building in the Taikoo-Li Sanlitun district, using depth, curvature, and translucency to negotiate visibility, scale, and…
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SYMBOLPLUS OFFICE is a modest renovation of a small workplace set within an existing timber building in Tokyo, where architectural restraint, material reuse, and continuity with the host structure shape…
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For most of the twentieth century, the suburban plot was built on a simple and rigid idea: one house, one family, one address. This model shaped not only planning codes…
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Reinhold Messner Haus occupies a former cable car station on Monte Elmo in the Dolomites, where heavy alpine infrastructure has been transformed into a public space dedicated to mountain culture…
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Senderos House is a compact dwelling embedded within the dune landscape of Costa Esmeralda on the Atlantic coast of Argentina. The project addresses an irregular site and marked topography through…
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A building should not be understood only as a physical object made from materials like steel and concrete. In design and architecture, a building is also defined by how people…
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