American architect Paul Rudolph is one of the most celebrated figures of modernist architecture of the ’60s and ’70s. Evidently influenced by the works of fellow American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies…
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Parallax architects designs Bengaluru weekend home using minimal linear support and site intervention
Located on the outskirts of Bengaluru, the site is spread across 1.5 acre of flat land with coconut trees covering the whole site in a grid manner. The brief given to Parallax Architects, led…
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Architecture Education Interiors
HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro designs kindergarten in Japan with elements connected to its community heritage
Located amid the rural fields at the foothills of Mt Kirishima in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan, the MRN Kindergarten and Nursery has been designed by architects Hibinosekkei and Youji no Shiro. It’s a well-known deeply-rooted…
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Breaking: Kengo Kuma and Associates and K2LD entry wins Founder’s Memorial competition in Singapore
The Founder’s Memorial design has been selected from among a shortlist of five submitted designs. The completed project by Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates and local practice K2LD, along the Marina Bay precinct,…
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Phang-na boutique hotel by Studio Locomotive harks back to owner’s Peranakan heritage
Hotel Gahn in Phang-Na designed by Studio Locomotive is inspired by the Baba-Nyonya (the descendants from the inter-ethnic marriage of the Chinese settlers and native inhabitants of Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago) culture, also…
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The co-founders of Irish practice Grafton Architects, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, have won the 2020 Pritzker Prize, for being pioneers in a male-dominated profession. The jury panel recognised the duo for “integrity in…
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Creative Crews discusses its award-winning classroom makeover for blind children in Thailand
Based in Bangkok, Creative Crews is an award-winning architecture, landscape and urban design practice co-founded by former Woha alumnus Puiphai Khunawat (above left) and Ekkachan Eiamananwattana (above right) of W Architects Singapore. The firm…