Articles tagged "Buildings"

Brazil is full of elegant, imaginative buildings designed by home-grown masters.

James Hancock has drawn everything from the brownstones of Brooklyn to the Art Deco Chrysler buildin g.

When building a new home, the site and location can matter as much as the structure itself. Some plo ts of land come with natural features that can greatly enhance the residence, like say, a tranquil stream flowing through the site. This is the setting that Architecture BRIO worked with when designing this elegant concrete retreat.…

Although the traditional white box endures as the ideal space for exhibiting and viewing art, we als o expect museums to offer an aesthetic experience in and of themselves. The challenge, then, is to strike a balance between the form and the content, and it is Japan’s current crop of top architects who have mastered this…

The New York City-based firm Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects is known for its international scope, wi th several hundred projects throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Now it’s heading to Dodoma, Tanzania, with ambitious plans not just for the central African country’s people, but for its bees as well. Earlier this…

The rapid urbanization and modernization of China is best seen in this image of Shanghai, where the agricultural and fishing village, across the river from the historic city center, has been transformed into one of the world’s most advanced metropolises in just a couple of decades. The shock to the system that comes along with…