ENTERING THE LABYRINTH Imagine standing inside a colossal labyrinth of weathering steel, its plates rising like the eroded walls of an ancient citadel. The space does not merely surround you;
BEYOND THE TULOU IMAGE China, in the mountainous south of Jiangxi, architecture often declares itself through enclosure rather than silhouette. A thick, continuous wall emerges at the edge of terraced
Nadav Kander photographs the traces of power as atmosphere rather than spectacle. From the Yangtze River to Central Asian nuclear test landscapes and the Thames Estuary, his restrained images examine scale, visibility, and aftermath. This essay reads Kander’s work as a method for architects, artists, and scholars.
From an abandoned cement factory outside Barcelona to labyrinthine social housing and monumental civic stages, Bofill treated architecture as a social instrument, a way to remake how people meet, move,
In late-1960s Amsterdam, a city long fluent in improvisation, a small group of artists began treating air as a civic material. Their works arrived lightly, often without warning, and disappeared
In the quiet town of Cassano Magnago, in Italy’s Varese province, a low circular building rests among trees and open ground. Cast in concrete yet kept close to the earth,
The horizon in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert does not behave. In minutes, a clean line can dissolve into a whiteout, when alkaline dust lifts and the sun turns flat, as
Basalto Collective is a Zurich-based platform founded by Mexican designer Paulina Reséndiz in late 2023. At first glance, it could be grouped with the wave of design spaces that promote
Logroño (Spain) is not the sort of city that typically anchors the international festival circuit. It is neither a capital nor a metropolis. There is no skyline theatre, no high-voltage
An essay drawn from Renzo Piano’s reflections on Centre Pompidou, tracing how it resisted museum intimidation, made emptiness an urban icon, and treated renovation as a cycle of care.
