Inspired by the built environment that surrounds him, Ruijssenaars saw that gravity was the fundamental factor that binds all architectural and design decisions here on Earth. As he points out, “No matter what country you live in or what culture raised you, gravity binds all urbanism, architecture and design decisions.” (more…)

Along with many American artists who emerged in the 1970s, Dan Graham challenges any attempt to classify the dominant styles of that period. Neither pop art, nor minimalism, nor conceptual art offer a sufficiently flexible profile act as a label. The openings and multiplications that Graham has practiced on the prototype of the minimalist cube have been considered as a caricature of modernity and a criticism of the growing privatization of public spaces. (more…)

It was planned to demolished Liverpool Street station and replace it with a modern construction, but in 1979 it was agreed to remodel it, and final approval was obtained in 1983. The chief objectives laid down by British Rail, who gave the project to A & DG, were to modernize and improve the station’s facilities, and its connection with the subway and the approach roads to the station. (more…)

A symbol of purity metaphorically rising out of the muddy water of life and blossoming in liberation – that is how the lotus flower has been perceived though eons of cultural and religious evolution in India. The understanding of this is what drove architect Fariborz Sabha to conceive the house of worship for the Baha’i faith in Delhi as an iconographic abstraction of this symbol of faith. (more…)

The result of an international competition, Ram Karmi’s Supreme Court was an important moment in the long attempt in the last quarter of the 20th century to reconcile past and present in architecture. (more…)

Gehry’s innovative office complex, located on a former industrial port site in Dusseldorf, Germany, quieted even his most adamant critics. Their argument that his architecture is merely an ecstasy of forms with confetti-like superficiality is countered by this design’s spectrum of pragmatic solutions that make these buildings both economically successful and user-friendly. (more…)