Reggio nell'Emilia, capital of the Province of Emilia Romagna, is today a progressive and spacious city located on the 'Padana', a plain in northern Italy. In 2002, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia commissioned Calatrava to create a new gateway to the region…
One of Glenn Murcutt's most recent houses, completed in 2016, is located at Palm Beach on a peninsula of the northern beaches of Sydney, on a seclude steeply sloping and heavily wooded site, with glimpses through the trees down to the Pittwater,…
The Antwerp Palace of Justice is a court building in Belgium, located on the site of the former Antwerp-South railway station. The building is built on the Bolivar Tunnel. It houses eight regional civil and criminal courts.…
Inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller developed the Dymaxion House to address some of the shortcomings in existing house building techniques…
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius designed The Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts during his tenure at Harvard University. The construction of the building, known to have been designed to accommodate his own family, was completed in 1938…
Ombú is a converted office building for Spanish infrastructure and energy company ACCIONA. This renovation project sets a sustainable precedent for the reuse of a historic industrial building in Madrid and the revitalization of the surrounding area…
Casa Batlló is a building in the center of Barcelona. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces…
In 1955, as a result of a competition organized by the Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG Vereinigte Hütten- und Rohrenwerke, Helmut Hentrich and Hubert Petschnigg designed a steel frame building with shear walls with a shape that resembled parallel slabs…
The tower was originally designed by Pritzker Prize winner Kevin Roche in 1997. In 2017, it was redesigned by Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne. Mayne used a metal cladding of interconnected window modules to cover the tower…
Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908…
The uniquely shaped water tower was inspired by the old sea marks used for assisting the navigation of ships at sea. The marks were used in the West of Jutland and in the Swedish archipelago from the end of the 16th century…
The expansion of the building is located directly above the renovated fire station. It has a glass-covered facade to "reflect the complex interaction of shades and colours in the air", a reference to the building's location surrounded by water…
The present building was completed in 1997, five years after architect Stirling's death and three years after construction began.
It is a postmodern structure, with use of bold, perhaps unsubtle, forms and colours in a compact assembly…
Pei designed the museum by integrating traditional and modern design. He chose to use a black and white color palette keeping in with the old pattern of the city. Used materials add a modern flair to this traditional approach…
The museum shares space with the remains of a Gothic church and a 1950s chapel, and surrounds both the museum and the old church with a gray brick facade perforated like a cape…
The pandemic has only emphasized the need for flexibility in our work. Buildings should be able to adjust their programs, and reflect sudden economic changes or population increases. The pandemic has only emphasized the need for…
If we sum up the first and second chapters of the book so far; the focus is on the functioning of classical architecture as a language. The mechanical aspect of the work is described with examples. The nature of the five orders,…
Ali Osman Öztürk The pandemic, which started in 2019 and continues, has mobilize us faster than ever before to understand the changing daily life practices. Social groups evolving into a singular, yet inclusive community indicate that we need to better understand autonomous…
architectÖnder KULmimaristudio BASF Türkiye GM © Gürkan Akay We can respond to the question of “What is well-being?” as the state of being physically, mentally and spiritually balanced and good. Since spending approximately 95% of our daily lives in indoors, 11 hours…
The beauty and the significance of our living environments, our place on the map of life, so to speak, is everywhere. But land is too often considered by urban planners and developers more in terms of…
The concept of sustainable development was introduced in the 1987 Brundtland Report, by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). It defined sustainable development as: "development that meets the needs of the present…
Workspace design is all about designing for the workflow of the employees as well as the organization. What are our goals, what do we believe in, how do we work the best, most effectively Designing an interior space that supports this, will…
There are many elements that provide efficiency in an office environment. If we talk about the most important ones, we can call it an "interior" that will provide ergonomics and a positive effect. Motivating employees has become one of the basic desires…
Public space is a medium that always open to surprises. Often what you designed may not correspond to what actually happened. In this sense, public spaces are very dynamic spaces in terms of usage diversity. This is perhaps the best part of…
In 1930, bolstered by his experience as a painter and architect, Le Corbusier created a wallpaper collection. Based on the 43 colours most often used by his workshop, he theorised that, if "an oil painting sold on a roll" was produced on…
An integrated work with the landscape provides a direct contribution to the spatial spirit created in addition to the other technical requirements of the architectural project. Landscape is a direct part and complement to architectural design. comparison: architecture, landscape The relationship of…
Landscape is a very broad and deep subject. Regarding the size, it means the place where a person can perceive the light, air, flora, fauna, seasons, wind, heat in which he can exist and integrate with it; that is, first of all…
When I opened my studio in the early 80ies I was working, as many architects in Italy, from spoon to city, from micro to macro. Eversince, this has not changed. Today, after having founded Matteo Thun + Partners in 2001 with my…
Every structure needs to be renewed over time to meet the requirements of the day. Although it is possible to renew the buildings that retain their original function without making significant changes, radical interventions are needed for the re-functioned structures.…
Each company has its own disciplines, working conditions, and principles. It is necessary to perceive them well, to analyze them and to create a particular working culture of each company. Because offices currently have become a living space where people spend much…
