Author: Jayakrishnan Ranjit

A futuristic cultural labyrinth created by Kengo Kuma & Associates and Kajima Design, the Kadokawa Culture Museum is located at the Musashino Plateau site and was inspired by binary oppositions and the collision of tectonic plates.

The boisterous edifice of ‘John Curtin School of Medical Research’ basks in a structural drama enveloped about its complementing landscape. Australian architecture firm Lyons creatively conceived the research laboratory to enrich interaction and collaboration. Based at the Australian National University, the building strikingly located in Canberra evokes an intrinsic form staggered yet organically weaved as a low-rise structure. The research centre integrates research facilities, exhibition areas, and a 200-seat public lecture theatre stretched linearly. As you enter, vast atria enfold the visitors booming in a voluminous aura to promote social exchange and fraternization. In addition, the building features a series…

A sculptural and organic ultramodern obelisk unveils to define Istanbul’s city profile, invigorating a sense of motion and rhythm. Melike Altinisik Architects conceived the Istanbul Tower reflecting the contextual scenario and natural setting. A wavy pattern encased within the urban fabric stands strikingly tall, revelling in its twists and turns. In addition, the architectural embellishment entertains elegance and beauty composed using math computations and geometric analysis. The prime design factors indeed invoke the movement of the wind, flowing terrains and scenic vistas. The innovative segments are coupled with inhabitable spaces within, attached to the tower’s core. Advanced engineering techniques, features,…

Invoking the Memphis ambience in glory, Studio PIG Design, based in China, fashioned a showroom for the Memphis Milano furniture brand in Hangzhou, China. Dashing and vibrant interiors ingeniously crafted to evoke a feisty setting of the ‘Memphis’ to the customers. Towering two-storeys, named Ya Space! The design captivates from its angular façade that screams as an exhibition space and furniture showroom denoting the Italian design and architecture group. In addition, the idea of a cliff informed on the building’s façade uses corrugated stainless steel sheets. The name inspired by the city’s nickname Bluff city refers to several nearby bluffs…

Faith triggers a capacious expression when confronted by an architectural aura. Our world needs a yearning to come together, connect and move our collective spirit. The Bahai temple envisioned by Hariri Pontarini Architects sits strikingly on Santiago’s edge, nestling along the Andes’ spines as a timeless and inspiring structural dome. Articulated in the architectural language of space and light, form and material, the structure implores Bahai philosophy and teaching interpretation. The Temple with universal access coupled with spiritual and emotional factors transcend the architectural philosophy by Hariri Pontarini Architects. The project is the eighth and final continental Temple of the…

It looks like a magic cloth wrapped over a box waiting to be risen and revealed from afar. Xiangcheng District Planning Exhibition Hall represents an elemental charisma, sitting calm and serene about a body of water. Lacime Architects have encased a cultural magnificence, capturing the supreme majestic scenery in southeast China, also featuring its architecture as “Elegance and Grace”. Suzhou’s culture dates back to more than 2500 years. The place’s reputation builds rich material wealth along with a brilliant chapter about the distinctive traditional culture. The Planning Exhibition Hall indeed sits to the east of Suzhou North Railway Station, which…

Woods Bagot and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design scored as the winning entry for the Adelaide Contemporary International design competition. The designers enlighten it as a new cultural paradigm highlighting the past, present, and future of Aboriginal cultures, moreover celebrating the contemporary arts and events across varied disciplines. The design proposes to set on Kaurna land. The arts and cultural centre intend to spring its design concept from the “wurlie” or “humpy,” temporary shelters used by Aboriginal Australians. The exterior shell furthermore imitates an intertwined “basket-like nest” that sits atop strong columns affixing the structure with an expansive courtyard at…

The ‘analogue smart’ design idea emblazed by the Amsterdam-based UNStudio exposes its Van B residential building in Munich. A feature of plug-in furniture modules that clocks and arrays apartments into varying configurations. The six-storey building prototype for modern city-dwelling will site on Infanteriestrasse near Munich’s Creative Quarter. The block ensembles 142 apartments with shared communal spaces. The reconfigurable apartments arrange to maximise their internal floor space and adaptability. The “plug-in” furniture units especially function as space partitions. UNstudio founder Ben van Berkel says, “It involves reinterpreting ideas from the digital world to improve the analogue, physical spaces we inhabit.” Various…

Rounded Earth homes enliven the natural habitat living. Mario Cucinella Architects in collaboration with WASP, 3D printing specialists in Italy. They revealed the first 3D-printed homes in 200 hours. Moreover the team used raw earth, which is entirely natural, recyclable, and a carbon-neutral material. TECLA, The circular housing prototype was built in Massa Lombarda (Ravenna, Italy) using multiple synchronized 3D printers. Integrating the words ‘Technology’ and ‘Clay’ forms – TECLA. They seek to maximize the standard yield of raw earth through digital fabrication. A double dome solution indeed acts as the structure, roof, and cladding. Furthermore, the concept simplifies the…

Slashed along a corner site afore the rocky mountains rises a punctuated white façade. Named ‘Populus’ as revealed by the American architecture firm Studio Gang. The design schedules to enfold in Denver with windows scooped out in addition to recall the bark of a tree. Mounting to 135,000-square-foot, this hotel plans to reach 159-foot-tall. And subsequently open to expansive views of the city and the rocky mountains. The distinctive scallop-shaped windows frame the serenading terrain in brilliance. Studio Gang developed the concept for windows looking at eye-shaped patterns found on the bark of Aspen trunks. The name Populus is after…