British-American architect Noel Michael McKinnell died of pneumonia on March 27 after testing positive for COVID-19, and his colleagues offer a tribute.
Completed in 1933, the Paimio Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis sanatorium (now a hospital) designed by architect Alvar Aalto.
The Trellick Tower is arguably the most famous piece of council house architecture in London, if not the country. As well as being a symbo...
Caitlin is walking us through the history of the Art Nouveau architecture era and this is one history lesson you won't want to miss
Image 3 of 12 from gallery of How "Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston" Hopes to Reclaim America's Concrete Heritage. Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles, Boston City Hall (1962-69). Image © Mark Pasnik
Japanese artist Minoru Nomata graduated from the Design Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and started working as a painter at the end of the 1970's. Each one of his vertical or horizontal paintings portraits a heroic building conceived by Nomata and represented as standing alone at the...
Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.
A conversation with the creators of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, which explores the city’s remarkable urban renewal legacy.
Known for his monumental brick and concrete structures, architect Louis Kahn (February 20 1901 – March 17, 1974) began his life in poverty. His family settled in Philadelphia after immigrating from Estonia and could not afford to buy him drawing materials, “so he improvised and sketched with burnt twigs and matches,” notes a Kimbell Art … Continue reading "The Austere Beauty of Louis Kahn’s 1963 Salk Institute for Biological Research, “Arguably the Defining Work of the Greatest American Architect”"
Image 1 of 8 from gallery of Vitra Design Museum's Manuel Herz On The "Heroic" Modern Architecture Of Africa. Photograph by Iwan Baan
In 2015 I attended a talk given by a couple of the authors of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, which had just been published. The insight of th
In this post we look at rammed earth construction, how it works and some examples of some great rammed earth contemporary projects.
Thierry Lechanteur è uno dei pionieri nell'uso dell'Intelligenza Artificiale in Belgio e nella fotografia, creando immagini che trascendono i limiti..
Golf architect Robin Hiseman profiles his hero, the Maverick designer of Tobacco Road.
Image 4 of 41 from gallery of Akshar Arbol International School / KSM Architecture. Photograph by Sreenag BRS
