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The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Join us in London for the announcement of the winners of the AR Emerging awards 2024 on Thursday 14 November! This year’s shortlist includes architects who are investigating earth and bio‑based materials,…. Architecture is a site of exchange ...
Buildings | Architectural Review
Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed. In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit.
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
Dec 19, 2014 · Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, St Louis, 1965. A 192-metre vision in stainless steel, the Gateway Arch is national expansion writ large, an icon of mid-century Modernism that has become architectural shorthand for the city of St Louis. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, the catenary arch was technically ...
Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
Aug 16, 1997 · Since 1896. Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor. Resonant with an elemental materiality and full of myriad therapeutic delights, Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths at Vals are conceived as a cavernous, labyrinthine haven devoted to sensual pleasure. First published in AR August 1997, this piece was republished online in August 2015.
SANAA | Architects | Architectural Review
Aichi Sangyo University Educational Centre in Japan by Studio Velocity. Fukuta House in Seki, Japan by Takashi Yonezawa Architects. Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed.
Philip Johnson’s AT&T: The Post Post-Deco skyscraper
The trouble with nine days’ wonders in architecture is that buildings take more than nine days to erect. Before AT&T’s distinctive silhouette was any more than a steel outline against the sky, the media abandoned it and ran across the continent to drool over Michael Graves’ Post-Deco cube in Portland, Oregon (AR November 1982).
Louis Kahn: The Space of Ideas - The Architectural Review
Oct 23, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. 1/14 The citadel-like volume of Kahn’s National Assembly rises up from a red brick base surrounded by water. 2/14 The National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, employs symbolic geometries to evoke the origins of architecture and institutions.
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. In 2003, at the age of 96, Oscar Niemeyer designed the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. At the time, he was a living legend: the last active modern architect.
Retrospective: Lina Bo Bardi - The Architectural Review
Jan 13, 2020 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Lina Bo Bardi’s ideas of living heritage and the historical present live on in the transformations she wrought, even as some of her buildings have been left to fall into ruin. An Italian who lived through the war, Lina Bo Bardi had an understanding ...
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The young boxer turned self-trained architect mastered a signature style of concrete and shadow in Japan before exploding onto the global scene. Ando-reputations-illustration-architectural-review-lili-zarzycki. In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows ...