Browsing: Architecture

Architecture is, at its core, the pursuit of form, space, and structure. This section explores how architects conceive, design, and build, from iconic museums and high-rise towers to adaptive reuse projects and intimate houses. Each feature brings forward the technical and creative dimensions of the discipline: material experimentation, structural systems, construction technologies, and the evolution of typologies that define how we inhabit space.

Here you will find in-depth studies of projects that test the limits of geometry, embrace sustainable design strategies, and refine the dialogue between past and future. Whether it’s parametric façades, modular housing, timber engineering, or the restoration of architectural heritage, this is where design practice comes into focus. For readers seeking architecture news, case studies, and the latest global projects, this section captures how the discipline continues to shape itself through precision, craft, and innovation.

Lankuaikei Agriculture Development Headquarters Visualized by MVRDV

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Imagine a building of terraces and garden composing a stimulating and enriching space to work and cherish. Lankuaikei Agriculture Development Headquarters (LAD) in Shanghai, visualized and stacked as an 11-storey terraced office building by MVRDV imbues so much to explore and rejoice. Knitting high and low-tech sustainable strategies woven by a swooping parametric roof showcasing the agriculture technology company in lustre. At the centre of Lingang New Town, the building embellishes as an agricultural oasis surrounded by a lake in a rapidly developing urban area in Shanghai.

One Thousand Museum Residential Tower Erected by Zaha Hadid Architects

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When architecture blends with the flowing wave of the wind and the sea, it sparks an amusing character and definition. One Thousand Museum, a masterpiece project by Zaha Hadid Architects, revealed as a monumental architecture and structural play soaring 62-stories of the residential tower opposite Museum Park in Miami. Exposing flourishing views across Biscayne Bay, the 30-acre Museum park rechristened in 2013 as one of downtown Miami’s prime public zone, integrates the city’s new art and science museums.

EMPAC Exhibit an Ellipsoid Inside a Cuboid by Grimshaw Architects

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A peculiar sight enthrals your imaginative mind to wonder and gasp in awe! EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) facility captivates you with an avant-garde expression of a wooden ellipsoid inside a glazed cuboid designed by Grimshaw Architects. The vision crafts the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with an innovative immersive performance environment, housed in a singular structure that conveys the project’s momentous contribution to the campus.

Drift Bridge Crafted in Timber and Steel by Volkan Alkanoglu

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A bridge aspires to be a passage, a bond, a way to join hands and become united. Drift, a timber-and-steel pedestrian bridge designed by Volkan Alkanoglu, in Fort Worth presents a simplistic vision that crosses beyond boundaries. Drift unveils as an innovative example of plug-and-play urbanism, an emerging sustainable and affordable design strategy that proposes to execute infrastructural elements off-site and dropping them onto the site. Volkan and his design team fabricated the bridge off-site with a projected installation time of a few hours.

URBAN BLOOM: Daejeon Galleria Department Store By CA PLAN

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Completed in December 2020, the URBAN BLOOM is a remodeling project of the Galleria Department Store, a landmark in Daejeon built in the 1990s. The project, designed by CA PLAN is located in Dunsan-dong, the central business district of Daejeon, which is surrounded with small and medium-scaled buildings with gray stones built during the rapid industrialization period. Dunsan-dong is the busiest downtown in Daejeon and a commercial center where many citizens visit.