Furnishing a space often means facing a familiar dilemma: you’re never quite sure what furniture you need until you’ve truly lived in it. Even when you think you’ve got it figured out, evolving tastes and… Read More »Teethmark’s Modular System Is 7 Parts With 100+ Configurations
A sunken concrete form designed to “embrace the irregular topography” of its sloping site defines Oeiras House, completed by Portuguese architecture studio OODA near Lisbon. Located just outside the town of Oeiras after which it… Read More »OODA nestles concrete home into sloping site in Portugal
The term “art deco” is being applied too liberally to architecture built under colonialism, writes Edward Denison as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. Long cast as the bastard child of modernism, art deco… Read More »“Art deco’s success has unwittingly served to conceal the horrors of colonialism”
The Guardian has reported that a Pakistani foreman has died while working on the Aramco stadium in Saudi Arabia, claiming he is the first known death of a migrant worker linked to the 2034 FIFA… Read More »First migrant worker death reported on Saudi World Cup stadium
Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings. Here, architectural photographer Ty Cole picks eight of the most interesting. Largely built in the 1960s and 70s as the federal government expanded, Washington DC has… Read More »Eight “really evocative” brutalist buildings in Washington DC
Capital Brutalism aims to challenges people’s views of brutalist architecture, say the exhibition‘s curators Angela Person and Ty Cole in this interview. Currently on show at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, Capital Brutalism… Read More »“We want to complicate people’s ideas of brutalism” say Capital Brutalism curators