Blogs about Architecture

The Forgotten Barn is hidden behind a row of townhouses, located in a quiet courtyard in Dobříš, Czech Republic. This unique project exemplifies how architecture can intertwine heritage and modernity.... The post The Forgotten Barn …

Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects ornamentation and architectural devices designed to make its inhabitants feel comfortable, instead creating a visceral, primal experience. Brutalism is a feeling—a bold statement that …

Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le Corbusier Archiobjects The Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, stands as one of the most iconic works of modern architecture. Completed in 1952, this structure is a paradigmatic …

As we close another year, we find ourselves reflecting on proceedings from the last 12 months: We survived another election, watched hurricanes destroy entire neighborhoods in the southeast, and continued The post <em>AN</em> shares the …

Art is something made. Any work that demonstrates labor shows evidence of human effort. Not everything is art. This essay is like a walk in the park from the blogger of Architectural Comment.… Continue reading …

The Architectural Review Competition: LAGI 2025, Fiji A free-to-enter contest is being held to design coastal infrastructures in Fiji that double as landscape artworks (Deadline: 5 May) The post Competition: LAGI 2025, Fiji appeared first …

The Architects’ Journal High Court upholds approval of Make’s controversial South Bank tower Make’s redevelopment proposals for the former ITV Studios on London’s South Bank have been given the go-ahead in the High Court The …

Bruno Bettelheim Tantor mediaBruno Bettelheim (1903–90) was born in Vienna, son of a middle-class Jewish lumber merchant. He entered Vienna Uni, but was forced to leave to take over his fam­ily business when his father …

Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fictional design project we originally set in the vast limestone province of …

Arndale Shopping Centres were amongst the best-known post-war developments in Britain, symbolic of progress and economic rebirth. However, they were routinely scorned by architectural critics and developed a tawdry reputation. Arndale House, New Street, Huddersfield …

Originally known as the George Robert White Health Unit Number 2, this Colonial Revival style building is located on North Margin Street in the North End of Boston, and is significant as an early health …

The Book The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine I saw a reference somewhere online to Yuiri Slezkine’s The House of Government and thinking it was a book about a single building a giant 1931 …

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The following text recounts the week-long drawing workshop held at Shatwell Farm in August 2024. To read the students’ reflections and view their drawings, click here. To read invited expert Sergio Ekerman’s account of the …

Craft and harmonyIn the Victorian era, church restorations were regular, bread-and-butter work for many architects. The ideas of the Oxford Movement and of influential architects like A. W. N. Pugin had encouraged a reaction against …

In yesterday's post, we looked at a vintage photoshoot from the mid-'50s that featured some rather peculiar bikinis. Today, let's travel further back in time while staying on the same topic, as we explore a …

The precursor to today’s Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario was Lakehead Technical Institute, established in 1946 in response to urgent need for higher education in the province’s northwest region. Lakehead became a university through …

Last week’s post looked at interwar Wigan, an era when the borough embarked on a programme of large-scale housing construction and slum clearance and when, thanks to George Orwell, the town became a symbol of …

A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current office-to-residential boom. New York City Council recently passed Mayor Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ proposal to create over 80,000 new housing units …

If you had to choose software to begin working in architectural design, which would be your first choice? Many might think that a BIM solution such as BlenderBIM or FreeCAD would be the ideal choice. …