New Mariinsky Theater
The appearance of this reasoned geometry creates an architectonic articulation with the different architectural styles of surrounding streets. This difference in architectural writing qualifies the building’s front and back, brings it closer to the Mariinsky across the way, and settles it into the urban fabric with a facade on the plaza, the canal and the [...]
Metro Station In Paris
Metro Station, Paris – So powerful were Guimard’s designs for the Paris metro stations between 1898-1904, that they have since become one of the city’s instantly recognizable symbols. The fluid, curvilinear shapes employed for balustrades, rails and entrance-ways were achieved in cast iron, but appear to have bubbled to the surface from some mysterious underworld.
The [...]
Sainsbury Centre For The Visual Arts, Norwich
The Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia is a dashing combination of simplicity and complexity.
Uncompromisingly High-Tech and machine¬like, the building is nevertheless extremely, elegant in its detailing. Norman Foster’s design, a low-lying, rectangular slab, is constructed from trussed, tubular steel support frames which house the services, thus allowing the central hallway area to [...]
Palacio De Deportes De Santander
All the elements of the Palacio de Deportes de Santander harmoniously complement each other, respecting the overall scale of the setting, uniting form and function into a dissoluble entity.
The process and the spaces resulting from the process are in organic dialogue along every scale present in the structure: from occupants’ clothes to single training rooms, [...]
Eiffel Tower, Paris
The modern world’s most celebrated architectural monument, the Eiffel Tower is neither a building nor a utilitarian object.
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Its purpose was symbolic: it was designed to advertise and to be the central feature of the Paris World Exposition of 1889 on the Champs de Mars. It remained, at 300 m (1000 ft), the world’s [...]
