Sangath is Balkrishna Doshi’s own architecture studio, located on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. With its buried vaults, interior-exterior spatial combinations and traditional bioclimatic architecture, it represents a synthesis of the architect’s main concepts.
James R. Thompson Center, Helmut Jahn
James R. Thompson Center
Helmut Jahn
Chicago, USA
41°53′07″N 87°37′56″W
1985
Johnson Wax Building, Frank Lloyd Wright
Johnson Wax Building
Frank Lloyd Wright
Racine, WI, USA
42°42′49″N 87°47′27″W
1939
Monumento alla Partigiana, Carlo Scarpa
Monumento Alla Partigiana / Monument to the Partisan Woman by Carlo Scarpa and sculptor Augusto Murer.
Le logement dans la cité portuaire de Port-Saïd
In 1859, the town of Port Said was created around a port that received workers and equipment from Europe for the digging of the Suez Canal. Shaped as an artificial city by the European operating company, it stands out for its unique architecture in the classic forms of colonial architecture imposed by France on administered urban spaces.
Villa Losonci, György Kévés
Villa Losonci, György Kévés Villa Losonci György Kévés Mátyáshegy, Hungary 47°32′03″N 19°01′37″E 1972 “In 1972 Gyorgy Gives built a summer house for a friend in the Budapest green belt. The house ressembles more tropicals forms of contemporary buildings which have analogies in Brazil and Italy. Unsing a circular form he created a new type of […]
Willow Run Airport, Minoru Yamasaki
Willow Run Airport, Minoru Yamasaki Willow Run Passenger TerminalMinoru YamasakiYpsilanti, Michigan, USA42°14′17″N 83°31′50″W1957 Top view of the main ceiling Overall photo of the Airport. The Willow Run Terminal is the center lower right building “The Barn”, the old terminal before the makeover Photo credit: Balthazar KorabSource: JetAgeTER
Escola Júlia Kubitschek, modern architecture and education in Brazil
The Escola Júlia Kubitschek was built by Niemeyer at a pivotal moment in his career. It is quite symptomatic of what defines his work; between structural experimentation, public buildings and relations with political leaders.
Pancho Guedes, Fluid Forms beyond the Utopia
Amancio Guedes, known as Pancho Guedes was a portuguese architect living in Mozambique. He distinguished himself by an architecture mixing his personal influences and his own work on curves and angles.
The Hotel Haegumgang, a floating hotel in North Korea
The Haegumgang Hotel is the world’s first floating hotel. After a 14,000 km journey through Singapore, Australia and Vietnam, it is currently docked on the east coast of North Korea.