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…
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…
