For more than a century, Old Trafford has stood as one of football’s most recognisable arenas, but also as a layered architectural record of Manchester’s industrial past, wartime reconstruction, and global sporting culture. As plans emerge for a new 100,000-seat stadium designed by Foster + Partners, the future of the Theatre of Dreams raises a deeper question: what happens when an architecture built from collective memory is asked to reinvent itself.
Norwegian artist Marius Troy explores AI art through atmospheric imagery and imagined installations. From Les Perles du Ciel to the Aurum Portals series and immersive environments like HEKA, his work investigates perception, memory and the quiet emotional power of digital space.
Syn Architects’ Invisible Possibilities at Desert X AlUla reframes architecture as excavation, linking ecology, heritage and material memory.
An in depth analysis of Peter Zumthor’s architectural philosophy, from his Wohnhaus und Atelier in Haldenstein to Therme Vals, Kolumba, and LACMA, exploring atmosphere, material precision, and the ethics of silence in contemporary architecture.
Lina Ghotmeh’s architecture explores memory, material continuity and ecological responsibility. From the Serpentine Pavilion in London to the Estonian National Museum and Stone Garden in Beirut, her work advances an archaeology of the future rooted in craft, context and collective experience.
This longform essay examines the architectural legacy of Soviet modernism in Armenia through a material lens. Moving from Georgia’s Monument Peace to Yerevan’s Mother Armenia and Cascade Complex, and to the modernist Writers’ Resort at Lake Sevan, the article investigates how volcanic tuff and reinforced concrete shaped a distinct tectonic identity. Beyond style, the essay explores how these structures negotiate post Soviet memory, political transition, and material continuity in the Caucasus.
This feature examines Tadao Ando’s architectural interventions in France, exploring how his concrete minimalism reshapes historic contexts from Paris to Provence through light, void and material precision.
An in-depth look at John Pawson’s Nový Dvůr Abbey and how his restrained architecture reshapes minimalism in contemporary Europe.
Paul Rudolph’s 1965 Manhattan office used a raised mezzanine, layered section and controlled light to explore his idea of space.
The 14th-century bell tower of Curon rises from Lake Resia in South Tyrol, the only remnant of a village submerged in 1950 for a hydroelectric reservoir.
