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WEBThe Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The ground is sinking. A crater nearly a kilometre wide has opened in the Siberian forest as permafrost there melts for the first time in 650,000 years. The revealed ground, depicted on the cover, is releasing thousands of tonnes of carbon into the ...
Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
WEBAug 16, 1997 · Since 1896. Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor. Resonant with an elemental materiality and full of myriad therapeutic delights, Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths at Vals are conceived as a cavernous, labyrinthine haven devoted to sensual pleasure. First published in AR August 1997, this piece was …
Louis Kahn: The Space of Ideas - The Architectural Review
WEBOct 23, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The citadel-like volume of Kahn’s National Assembly rises up from a red brick base surrounded by water. The National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, employs symbolic geometries to evoke the origins of architecture and institutions.
Negotiating the ruin: The story of Stirling Prize winning Astley …
WEBFeb 25, 2014 · We encountered the ruins at Astley after the latest period of destruction. The ravages of fire and 30 years’ patient work of water had made it almost impossible to know where to start.
Revisit: Aranya low-cost housing, Indore, Balkrishna Doshi
WEBAug 14, 2019 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Revisit: Aranya low-cost housing, Indore, Balkrishna Doshi. Doshi’s ideas on housing the poor culminated in 80 model homes in Aranya where residents felt empowered by the opportunity to improvise. This is one of …
Building Seagram: A Memoir of Mies and Modernism
WEBSep 24, 2013 · As a ‘memoir’ the voice is authoritative, the facts established by research, and the story fascinating. A prologue describes the lead-up to the selection of Mies − the history of the Seagram Company from its beginnings as a single distillery built by Samuel Bronfman in Ville LaSalle near Montreal in 1924, to its consolidation as the Distillers Corporation Seagrams Limited four years later.
Charles Moore (1925-1993) - The Architectural Review
WEBJul 28, 2017 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Charles Moore was the wizard who led us out of the sterility and self-importance of Modernism and showed us that we could go home again. Charles Moore, the Oberon, Merry Prankster, and Mystical Guru of late-20th-century architecture, had the …
Casa A by Smiljan Radic, San Clemente, Maule Region, Chile
WEBJun 1, 2009 · To anyone unfamiliar with his work, Smiljan Radic’s recently completed Casa A is an encompassing example of the architect’s style. With an eye for preservation, regional sensitivity and the intersection of art and architecture, 44-year-old Radic executes buildings that are both phenomenally atmospheric and surprisingly humble.
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
WEBDec 19, 2014 · Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, St Louis, 1965. A 192-metre vision in stainless steel, the Gateway Arch is national expansion writ large, an icon of mid-century Modernism that has become architectural shorthand for the city of St Louis. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, the catenary arch was technically ...
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
WEBApr 9, 2014 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
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