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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 ...
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 ...
Revisit: Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada, by Moshe Safdie
WEBMay 8, 2018 · Habitat 67 is a display of urban density, designed to be visible as such from the centre of old Montreal. The passing of the years has not softened Habitat 67’s visual impact. Image courtesy of Studio Graetz. The gardens provide enviable views of the St Lawrence River or the city. Photograph by Sam Tata.
Louis Kahn: The Space of Ideas - The Architectural Review
WEBOct 23, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The citadel-like volume of Kahn’s National Assembly rises up from a red brick base surrounded by water. The National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, employs symbolic geometries to evoke the origins of architecture and institutions.
Shanghai Tower by Gensler - The Architectural Review
WEBNov 14, 2015 · The latest addition to the skyline is the 632-metre high Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler. It is the second tallest tower in the world when we visited but closely rivalled by another Chinese tower, Tianjin 117 in north China designed by P+T Group that comes in at 596.5metres. The project started in November 2008 …
Reinterpreting tradition: Hassan Fathy - The Architectural Review
WEBJan 18, 1990 · On the occassion of Hassan Fathy’s death in 1990, James Steele reflects on Fathy’s search for the true meaning of tradition. Originally published in AR January 1990 as an obituary, this piece was republished online in February 2020, along with a piece on Hassan Fathy published in AR Feburary 2020 on Soil. At a time when pluralism is ...
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 ...
Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) - The Architectural Review
WEBFeb 28, 2018 · Zaha Hadid was an explosion of fearless, impolite, aggressive talent onto a profession terrified of itself. It is hard to recapture the state of British architecture in 1982. Modernism of any sort was at the nadir of its reputation, blamed for all manner of social ills by both Left and Right. The cul-de-sac became a spatial ideal for both ...
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 ...
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) - The Architectural Review
WEBFeb 14, 2020 · At the age of 78, in a key scene of the documentary movie Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres, Hassan Fathy was interviewed at his Ottoman-Mamluk flat, at the foot of the Cairo Citadel.Swathed in a brown cloak, he walked back and forth on the house’s rooftop with the ensemble of Cairo’s buildings and the dome and minarets of the Sultan Hassan Mosque behind him.