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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.
Water Square, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands by De Urbanisten
Mar 2, 2017 · Perhaps unsurprisingly, this question has been asked – and answered – by a group of Dutch urbanists. Since 2005, De Urbanisten has been developing what they call ‘water squares’, public spaces that double as drainage infrastructure, collecting and storing water during periods of high rainfall. This example at Benthemplein in Rotterdam ...
Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, Glasgow, UK
Jun 29, 2011 · Glasgow’s new Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), cuts a rather lonely figure. Built to re-house Glasgow’s much-loved Museum of Transport, this twisted metallic shed lies at the confluence of the Kelvin and Clyde Rivers, its immediate surroundings a derelict wasteland. This barren prospect is typical of a large part ...
Architecture Becomes Music - The Architectural Review
May 6, 2013 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. As abstract art forms based on rhythm, proportion and harmony, architecture and music share a clear cultural lineage. Now, through digital expression, architecture can attain new heights of creative supremacy. ‘All art’ Walter Pater famously ...
Fragments: The History of Architecture in 14 Fireplaces
Jan 31, 2015 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The fire, enclosed within any kind of architecture, becomes domesticated. The fireplace over its entire history as an element of domesticity has not changed as drastically as many would expect. But when it does, it goes leaps and bounds.
Revisit: BedZED in Beddington, UK by ZEDfactory
May 1, 2023 · W hen BedZED – ‘Bed’ for the suburb of Beddington and ‘ZED’ for zero energy development – was completed in 2002, it was heralded by the architectural press with endless fanfare, declaring a new dawn in sustainable housing. Combining three terraces of 82 housing units with 1,500m 2 of live/work and commercial units, the project was described as ‘a piece of radical architectural ...
Typology: Prison - The Architectural Review
Jun 11, 2018 · To confine, secure, rehabilitate or punish: the prison has several, sometimes contradictory aims, but however humane its approach, penal architecture is essentially cruel. The Marquis de Sade wanted to beat his brains out against them, Jean Genet was moved to kiss them. The walls of prisons are invested with a strange kind of energy: whether ...
Redressing the balance: Henri Labrouste - The Architectural Review
Nov 23, 2012 · Since 1896. Henri Labrouste (1801-75) was perhaps one of the 19th century’s most important yet, until recently, neglected architects. With very few exceptions, his small but exceptional body of work has been − remarkably − taken for granted. Brief mentions of his use of iron construction in the celebrated polemical essays of Sigfried ...
Revisit: Quinta Monroy by Elemental - The Architectural Review
Jan 4, 2021 · Since 1896. Quinta Monroy was, on completion, one of the most celebrated social housing projects of the early 21st century, capturing the attention of the architectural community and propelling the Elemental architecture firm, and media-savvy director Alejandro Aravena, towards ‘starchitect’ status. In the transition to democracy from 1991 ...
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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.