Designing for the desert terrain is not only a matter of expertise and technical know-how from the point of view of the site topography, structural and building materials knowledge, but it requires an innate…
Located in the hometown of traditional calligraphy, Shuyang in China’s Jiangsu province, Shuyang Art Museum by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co. Ltd is positioned as the calligraphy art museum…
New Delhi-based practice Studio Symbiosis, led by principal architects Amit Gupta and Britta Knobel Gupta, has designed a modernist private residential project called the Floating Terraces in India’s Hyderabad city. The villa has been…
Architect Damith Premathilake has designed a 976m² holiday home for his family in the upcountry dry zone region of Sri Lanka about 2km away from the Diyathalawa military training school. Perched atop a cliff…
What is common between Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre and the new State Courts towers (above; photo: Finbarr Fallon) in Singapore? While the former is a poetic rendition of a solitary cultural institution sitting along…
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (ATTA) has designed the recently-opened Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Hirosaki MOCA), located in northern Japan’s western Aomori Prefecture. The city is known for being the largest producer of apples…
Spanish practice Guallart Architects, founded by Vicente Guallart, chief architect of the city of Barcelona, has won the international competition to design a mixed-use community in the new city of Xiong’an in China. The…