カテゴリー: Architecture
Across the Bangladeshi megacity, designers are adapting to the climate crisis Continue reading…
From its cavernous domed bazaar to its ravishingly muscular museum, the Uzbek capital has one of the world’s wildest collections of modernist gems. Will its bid for world heritage status succeed?A pair of huge turquoise domes swell up on the skyline of…
In its heyday, Chettinad in southern India was a thriving hub of international traders. Today, the grandeur of their homes is being restored by a community keen to celebrate the houses’ cultural importance and promote them to touristsThe single-stone g…
Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giz…
This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an artist but built what became India’s most visited tourist site after the Taj Mahal, the Rock Garden of ChandigarhA forest of curious cement statue…
Engineer Don Dunick took years to conceptualise and build ‘the lighthouse’, which can turn 360 degrees to offer views of the sea or native bushlandA house in New Zealand that can rotate continuously like a carousel has been listed for sale for the firs…
Campaigners criticise renovation and call for better protection for the city’s distinctive architectureA Bangkok landmark known as the “robot building” has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city’s dis…
A year on from devastating floods, a renowned architect is leading a project to build affordable and sustainable homes while empowering communities in the processA year ago, Shani Dana’s mudbrick house was swept away in the worst floods on record to hi…
The prime minister says his £120m parliament building will set a new order – critics say the design doesn’t match that ambitionSome time soon the new parliament building of the world’s largest democracy, India, will open for business. No one quite know…
The tiny homes, which measure just nine square metres – or three tatami mats – are the architectural answer to rising rentsJustin McCurry spends a night in a 3 tatami mat apartment – videoIt is one of the shortest viewings in estate agency history. As …
One of Tokyo’s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23 of the capsules have been saved for posterityTatsuyuki Maeda had more reason than most to feel a pang of regret as he joined admirers and passing office workers…
Pritzker prize winner who combined Asian and western influences said postwar ruins of Japan stayed with him in his workPritzker-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, known for his avant garde style and category-defying works, has died at the age of…
A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independenceLight lands softly on concrete walls in a series of silver gelatin prints by an unknown photographer. These small, s…
RIBA’s international prize 2021 has been won by Kashef Chowdhury’s $2m Friendship hospital in a water-logged part of Bengal, beating competition from David Chipperfield and Wilkinson EyreA small brick hospital in rural Bangladesh with its own zigzaggin…
From a mosque that breathes to innovative bamboo houses, Marina Tabassum has won the prestigious Soane medal for her humanitarian buildingsFor the people of coastal Bangladesh, the monsoon can bring untold torment – and, occasionally, unexpected joy. E…