A series of buildings of circles that are piled on top of each other and all rounded structures and curves and white and swirly – that is what the Galaxy Soho building in Beijing is all about. Architect Zaha Hadid, one of the most famous living architects – is probably the most famous female architect. […]
Since 1974, Chicago was the home of the “Tallest Building in America.” The Sears Tower, (named that because it was paid for by the Sears Company – not because Sears employees worked in all 100 floors) was crowned the tallest building at 442 meters tall. By the way, the Sears Tower is now called the […]
The City out my Window is a sweet book about architectural views. The author, Matteo Pericoli, is an architect and a writer. He chose 63 New Yorkers to interview and to enter their apartments, so he could draw the view from their windows. The drawings are in pen and ink, done with great detail. The […]
Sometimes, you can control your own architecture. What we mean is, you might not have the qualifications (yet) to design a skyscraper, but you can design and change the space where you live. So here is a teeny project that you might try if you have some space in your own room. Try this do-it-yourself […]
If you look back in the farthest history of architecture, you might discover Stonehenge. What is this collection of rocks? Well, it is not a random pile of stones that happened upon the countryside in England. Nope. Located in Wiltshire, these are a series of ancient stones that were placed in a semicircular pattern around […]
[amazon_link id=”0870708937″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]Young Frank, Architect, written and illustrated by Frank Viva, is a story about a young man who wants to be an architect but his grandfather is skeptical. They take a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has a big architecture department, and learn about architects past and […]
The De Goblin parking garage in Almere, in the Netherlands is quite a cute building. It is not small and cute, it fits over 400 parking spaces. It is cute because the facade is covered in fanciful designs of gnomes and windmills. Metal plates have been perforated with holes and molded into scenes of things […]
Waiting for the bus in Krumbach is more interesting now than ever. This small town in Austria decided to invite a bunch of architects from around the world to design bus shelters. Instead of the same old ones that we see in all of our towns and cities, either glass with a little bench, or […]
In Evanston Illinois, two teachers have built an unusual and fantastic new high school course called “Geometry in Construction” (GiC). A hands-on course, GiC integrates Geometry and Construction topics where kids actually BUILD a structure – a real construction project. Kids will engage in their learning and be able to build something useful in the […]
Outside of Chicago, a hotel was built in 1962. Everyone who ever saw it remembers it. It was purple. Bright, shocking, and no-doubt-about-it-PURPLE. The original architect, John Macsai, never planned on it being that color. So how did it happen? How does a building end up not being what the architect designed? As the Purple […]