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The gridiron plan of Sapporo City is fascinating. It combines the quality of an ancient city such as Kyoto, as well as a new, “high-tech” city such as Manhattan. You will be attracted to its charm from the very first instance you arrive in the city.
The design of the Kinokuniya Sapporo Main Store tries to [...]

The eye-catching feature of Loudspeaker Office Building is the corner tower with its oval window at the sweeping transition from smooth facade to coffered pattern and rather ornate roof hood, said to be shaped like a loudspeaker.
Asymmetrical ornamentation and floral contours make the transition to the neighboring round tower in the interior courtyard with its [...]

Located on the central Slava square, next to the seat of regional government and the war memorial with the eternal flame, the cathedral was completed on the fifty-fifth anniversary of the end of WWII.
This historical memorial is of relatively small size (only 35 m tall), but its radiance is incredible; at night the whitewashed walls [...]

The new thirty-thousand-seat Lokomotiv Stadium belongs to the football club of the same name.
The entrances to the stadium are located at each of the arena’s four rounded corners which, with their steel and glass roof construction and pitched canopy on the long sides, lend the stadium the appearance of an oyster.
The roof construction is supported [...]

The Natal Beach in Phuket is also known as “the Hamptons of Thailand” In real estate circles - this is where the rich and beautiful build their villas right on the beach of the azure blue Andamanen Sea.
If you’re not necessarily thinking of settling down on this coastal strip for the rest of your life, [...]

The modern world’s most celebrated architectural monument, the Eiffel Tower is neither a building nor a utilitarian object.
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 tallest structure [...]

By the swimming pool Greek classicism takes a post modern twist with constructive boldness, neo-antique grandezza and the nonchalant sacrifice on functionality the terracotta-colored wall with its round arch is set in the turquoise blue water. This original, mismatched feature has style and gives the holiday resort the flair of a modern palace. [...]

In this new (not rebuilt) church of 1722-6, James Gibbs’ study of Roman buildings led him to a successful marriage between the traditional steeple form that people felt was expected of a church, and a wide temple portico in the Classical taste. It served as a model for many others.
This view from the south-west (opened [...]

Who knows how many jewels are hidden on the countless islands of the Maldives? It’s likely that the approximately 500 miles long beach of coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-west of Sri Lanka, is concealing more than just one.
The biggest treasures however are in part still the untouched Jewels of nature itself. The strict [...]

Bask Headquaters, a plot 10 x 10 m, allocated for the construction of a building, is adjacent to an existing one-storey jewelry shop building and is located between old blocks of flats. A monolithic ferro-concrete framework 5-floor high is contained in a mirror glass shell divided by blank curvilinear elements of outside walls. The metal [...]

Three structural elements, each different in form and consisting of copper, wood and stone, have been fitted together to make up a two-storey residential house complete with swimming pool, spacious living room and an accessible roof.
The architect’s main concern was to create a house, which reveals little of its interior yet remains open to its [...]