Civic structures shape cities – the best examples of institutional architecture stand out from the crowd and declare themselves as objects rather than infill. From sensational schools, colleges and universities to magnificent museums, theaters and opera halls, here are some buildings well worth viewing (and visiting should you ever find yourself in the relevant city!).
Maybe it's the kids in us, but there's something about inflatable architecture that's just plain fascinating. It’s hard to deny the fun factor in blowing something up bigger and bigger and ...
Workers of the world, relax! The Zuev Workers' Club building in downtown Moscow was the epitome of Constructivist cool when it opened way back in 1929. Hipster-sky Hangout And it's still ...
The vivid blue and green artificial ski slope atop Bjarke Ingels Group’s mountain-shaped Amager Resource Center in Copenhagen is ready for action. The novel waste-to-energy plant aims to be fun ...
A stunning rock formation in Malta known as the Azure Window drew visitors from around the world until its collapse in a storm in early 2017, but it could be reborn in an unexpected way. In ...
Like the chambers of a seashell eroded over time by sand and water, the white hollows of this subterranean museum offer a series of organically shaped spaces tucked beneath the dunes. The UCCA ...
Now open on the edge of Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, the Harbor Bath project features a main 150-foot-long pool as well as diving and children's pools, plus a pair of saunas. Naturally, ...
Unlike other arts, architecture is generally limited by practical matters, including what materials can do, how things stand up, and in most cases (but not so much this one) an array of ...
Sweetwater playground at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York is a colorful children's fun park that's dandy as old-fashioned candy. A park with good taste? It's more ...
The sinuous curves of sound waves will take shape on a massive scale as Zaha Hadid Architects' design for the new Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall comes together in Yekaterinburg, Russia. ...
Designed by OPEN Architecture and sited along the Chinese coast near Beijing, this building complex is a mysterious maze of fluid concrete shells, all of which will be reburied under sand when ...
