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Jakarta, Dhaka and Tokyo lead the new UN ranking of the largest cities in the world. ArchEyes reads the 30 biggest megacities through their urbanism, transport and architecture.
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The Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, built by Donato Bramante in the cloister of a Franciscan convent on the Janiculum hill in Rome, is a small circular chapel commemorating…
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Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza is the church of the former University of Rome, designed by Francesco Borromini and built between 1642 and 1660 at the end of the courtyard of the…
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A walking guide to 50 essential buildings in Barcelona, from Gothic churches and Gaudí to Mies, Miralles and the new Diagonal, with maps and routes for every district.
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For the first time in its 100-year history, the Lovell Beach House is for sale. Rudolf Schindler’s 1926 landmark at 1242 West Ocean Front on Newport Beach’s Balboa Peninsula, California…
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JSWD wins the RIYMAR Towers competition in Riyadh with two terraced towers inspired by the Tuwaiq mountains and Diriyah adobe architecture.
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Every architecture project eventually has to leave the drawing board and face an audience. A studio jury, a competition panel and a client meeting all ask the same underlying question…
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p>YUKI Office in Kuki, Saitama, organizes a timber headquarters around three open-ended boundary walls, integrating workspaces with rice fields, vegetable plots, and shared emergency infrastructure. Designed by UENOA architects, the…
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A district-by-district guide to 40 essential buildings in Tokyo, from Kenzo Tange and Le Corbusier to SANAA, Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito, with maps and walking routes.
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A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to 40 essential buildings in Mexico City, from the Metropolitan Cathedral and Bellas Artes to Luis Barragán, Ciudad Universitaria and contemporary landmarks.
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The Ise Grand Shrine (Ise Jingū) in Mie Prefecture is Shinto’s most sacred site and one of the most discussed works in the history of Japanese architecture. Its principal sanctuaries…
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and opened in October 2004, is a circular glass building 112.5 meters in…
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The Teshima Art Museum, designed by Ryue Nishizawa with the artist Rei Naito and completed in 2010, is a single, column-free concrete shell set into a restored rice terrace above…
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Residential Quarter Red Emma is a 360-unit timber-hybrid housing ensemble in Vienna, Austria, developed by AllesWirdGut Architektur and GERNER GERNER PLUS. Its slender residential blocks combine adaptable apartments, planted balconies…
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