Articles by Gabrielle Golenda

When it comes to Dutch transportation infrastructure, functionality has proven to be no barrier to c reativity for architects.

At 48 by 40 inches, the standard pallet is easily implemented in simple building projects.

Experimental brick architecture continues to proliferate throughout the Netherlands.

These exceptional contemporary projects that take their cues from Kaufmann’s winter retreat.

These traditional openings in buildings continue to inspire new applications of space and light amon gst all architectural typologies.

Their album investigates the profound link between the human experience of the built environment and musical association and affect.

Mirrors have had a place as a building material for a long while, from the Hall of Mirrors in Versai lles to the John Hancock Tower in Boston. Speaking to the later example, the glassy material is especially popular as glazing on windows and other external walls, as a rather attractive skin. Its characteristics – luminance,…

Under most circumstances, entire buildings, sections within, and individual rooms are designed speci fically for how they are intended to be used — generally speaking, how it all fits together. More uncommon are spaces with a primary purpose based on experience or observation. That is to say, an architectural construct that is not designed for efficiency…

As the story goes, during the recess between world wars, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed a startli ngly modern home for a Jewish businessman and his new wife in Czechoslovakia. The Villa Tugendhat, a building of dramatic vertical and horizontal lines marked by a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows, managed to survive many instances of…