Blogs about Architecture

Pixel, a recently completed project in Abu Dhabi’s burgeoning Makers District, represents a transformative approach to residential architecture in the United Arab Emirates. Developed by IMKAN and designed by MVRDV,... The post Pixel by MVRDV: …

Kengo Kuma’s completed design of the Saint-Denis–Pleyel metro station in Paris is one of the largest and most significant new projects highlighting the city’s push for sustainable urban renewal as a consequence of its turn …

MIT Chapel in Boston, Eero Saarinen Archiobjects Located in the heart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen in 1955, stands out as a distinctive example …

When Anatole Kopp wasn’t off designing schools in Algeria for Ahmed Ben Bella, lecturing about social housing in Cuba, or photographing old Constructivist buildings in the Soviet Union, he was ideating The post For 2024 …

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 AR Reading List 075: the Olympic Games To mark the opening of Paris 2024: seven carefully chosen pieces from our archive, free for registered users The post AR Reading List 075: the …

The Architects’ Journal Richard Murphy’s revised overhaul of Edinburgh landmark gets go-ahead Edinburgh City Council has approved revised plans by Richard Murphy Architects to revamp the Scottish capital’s celebrated former Royal High School The post …

Clown with young child in bed, ? hospital Biomedical ScienceMedical clowns in a U.S hospital health-care team started when a professional clown at NY’s Big Apple Circus founded Clown Care in 1986. Cl­own­ing became a …

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 …

Findlater’s Corner – a prominent site on the western approach to London Bridge railway station – was restored to its original glory by The Arch Company, working with Benedict O’Looney Architects, in 2022. The result …

The Peep Toad Mill (also known as the Elliottville Lower Mill) was built in Killingly, Connecticut, around 1850 by the Elliottville Manufacturing Company, whose larger main mill was upstream from this complex. The Elliottville Manufacturing …

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Resurrection Readers who would like to see some older timber-framed architecture, after two posts on half-timbered buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries, look no further.Equally at the top of my list of priorities when …

The connection between fashion and politics has always been present, but in recent years, it has grown stronger, more persistent, and more pervasive. In the past, the media would analyze a politician's style to uncover …

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 …

We concluded the first part of this walk at Hackney Town Hall. Here’s a reminder of the overall route with the usual disclaimer that you should use the official route guidance provided by Transport for …

This photo from 1954 was taken from the top level of the Queensboro Plaza Station, looking west to Manhattan. That’s the Queensboro Bridge on the right. If you take the 7 train to Flushing, as …

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. …

Beetles may be the most profligate insect in terms of diversity of species; but it is ants (the Formicidae family) that are the most successful in numbers alone. The combined weight of every living ant …