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Concrete is one of the most ubiquitous, flexible, and dynamic building materials in architectural history. By offering a profoundly different building technique to architects and engineers, it has significantly altered the way in which buildings are designed and constructed in the modern age.
The SESC Pompéia Factory is a unique adaptive reuse project designed by one of Modernism’s best-known female architects: Lina Bo Bardi. Originally a drum factory, Bo Bardi transformed the structure…
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Completed in 2021, the Bopal Civic Center project designed by Shaan Patel was an opportunity to provide an alternative form of public infrastructure for students that lack a quiet secluded…
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Cukrarna is a former sugar refinery built in 1828 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2009 Scapelab won the international competition of the city municipality to renovate the national monument into a…
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Completed in 2012, Tom Ford’s Ranch, designed by Japanese Architect Tadao Ando has a serene Japanese aesthetic that blends surprisingly well with the 24,000-acre ranch arid terrain of Santa Fe,…
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts center in Sydney. Located on the banks of the Sydney Harbour, it is often regarded as one of the world’s most…
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The Princesa building was completed in 1975 by Fernando Higueras and Antonio Miró. Originally built for military retirees, it is now the inner-city home of many design-oriented entrepreneurs and young…
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Completed in 2020 by Studio Atelier Štěpán, the Internal Landscape Villa in Novy Jicin is a modern reinterpretation of a classical Greek atrium house.
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The Palace of Failed Optimism by Wai Think Tank Architects is an inverted pyramid, a modular, ever-expandable (fictional) megastructure to store all the big-but-failed architectural utopias of the past, present and…
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Completed in 2021 by hw studio, this primitive house named “The Hill in front of the Glen” in Morelia preserves the rough atmosphere of the mountains that surrounds it in…
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Completed in 1972 in Tokyo’s center, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was designed by the Japanese Architect Kisho Kurokawa. The mixed-use residential and office tower is a rare example of Japanese…
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Inspired by the traditional “Chise“ houses of Japan, Kazuo Shinohara designed in 1977 this House in Ashitaka as part of a group of stark, concrete houses, the architect built between 1970…
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The Campus Plateau de Paris-Saclay is the Silicon Valley of Europe. Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes, together with Celnikier & Grabli Architectes and Ingerop Conseil & Ingénierie, was in charge of the…
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Completed in 1955 by the Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, the Ronchamp Chapel or “Notre Dame du Haut” is one of the most radical designs of Le Corbusier’s late style. Located…
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Completed in 2021 by Riparia Architecture Studio, Kokonut is a fragmented residential building at the Mexican Riviera Maya consisting of three volumes that responded to three main factors: the trapezoidal…
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