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WEBThe Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Back to school sale: 25% off all orders from the AR’s online shop and 33% off when you buy three or more issues. The ground is sinking. A crater nearly a kilometre wide has opened in the Siberian forest as permafrost there melts for the first time in ...
Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
WEBAug 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 …
From pillar to lamp post: lighting city streets
WEBSep 7, 2021 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The history of the street light traces the course of political turbulence and the rise of capitalism. Street lighting might seem like a product of modernity, but there is little new about it. The Romans illuminated their city streets at night and ...
Kazuyo Sejima (1956–) - The Architectural Review
WEBMar 7, 2023 · Director of SANAA Kazuyo Sejima and founder of the CCA Phyllis Lambert…. 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 ...
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) - The Architectural Review
WEBOct 18, 2022 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. There is only an extravagant squandering of energy.’. These words were written in 1983 by the Jewish‑Austrian artist, environmental activist and ‘architecture doctor’ Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Throughout his life, he developed his art and ...
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
WEBDec 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 ...
Typology: The semi-detached house - The Architectural Review
WEBJul 6, 2015 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Symbol of middle-class aspiration, conservatism and compromised individualism, the semi-detached house is England’s modern domestic type par excellence. ‘My pink half of the drainpipe keeps me safe from you’: so …
The mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier …
WEBThe Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier compared. Colin Rowe’s essay on The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, Palladio and Le Corbusier compared. Originally published in AR March 1947, this piece was republished online in August 2010.
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 16, 2020 · In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates’.Tanizaki’s words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), cast across the ...
Enric Miralles (1955–2000) - The Architectural Review
WEBJul 26, 2021 · Enric Miralles i Moya (1955–2000) graduated from the ETSAB (the architecture school of Barcelona’s Polytechnic University of Catalonia) in 1978, the year Spain’s constitution was enacted after nearly four decades of fascist dictatorship and following a complicated . The country’s struggle for …