Álvaro Siza . Carlos Castanheira
Each new project is a new challenge.
This is what makes architecture interesting and makes being an architect an unsettling profession.
Given the great complexity of its brief, The Haishang Museum will not be just one Museum. Continue reading Siza . Castanheira
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“Why is this art?” is a question often asked by viewers of contemporary art. It is virtually impossible to answer it without referring to the work of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Continue reading Marcel Duchamp
Building a house in the dry basin of a mill pond, which is being recovered, and ensuring that the house becomes the link between the pond and the agricultural buildings on a cultivated field, is its primary reason for being. Continue reading RCR Arquitectes
Some recent buildings by British architects.
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OMA Shohei Shigematsu . photos: © Vincent Hecht
The Edo-Tokyo Museum is the first museum dedicated to Tokyo’s history. Since opening in 1993, it has explored the city’s evolution from the early Edo period to today. As part of the renewal of the museum’s iconic building by Metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake, OMA was asked to help envision its next chapter, marking the firm’s first public project in Japan. Continue reading OMA