Harmony at the Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid
Southern China's largest city, Guangzhou, is seeing its status as a cultural hub cemented with the opening of the breathtaking Guangzhou Opera House by famed architect Zaha Hadid. Shaped to ...
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Junked Ship: Japan Ditches Hadid’s 2020 Olympic Stadium Design
Scheduled to land like an otherworldly spacecraft in Tokyo, the curvaceous, controversial but competition-winning National Stadium designed for the 2020 Olympics by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) ...
Architecture Meets Fashion: Shoes by Hadid, Gehry & More
How would the architectural styles of Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava translate to shoes? As these 6 collaborations prove, sometimes the results are just as you'd imagine, and ...
Deconstructivism: 7 Icons of the Postmodern Architecture
What if you took all of the elements of a building, hacked them apart and put them back together again without apparent rhyme or reason? At a glance, that seems to be the primary visual effect ...
Disused Shopping Mall Transformed into a Co-Working Hub in China
We’ve seen abandoned malls and shopping centers transformed into some pretty cool things, including affordable micro housing and homeless shelters. In China, as a booming e-commerce market starts ...
Topographical Architecture Brings the Printed Contours of Maps to Life
When artificial structures mimic the contours of topographic maps, which are almost sculptural in their own right, they become an extension of the land itself. The lines on the map that indicate ...
Flight to the Future: How Airport Design is Adapting to a New Age
Would you ever go to an airport just to hang out? Chances are, unless you’re an avid people-watcher, the answer to that question is no. Modern airports aren’t typically pleasant places to be, ...
Concrete Skies: Reclaiming the Urban Wilderness of Disused Underpasses
As cities grow and change, complex networks of elevated concrete highways and railways sprout up like vines, twist around each other and radically transform the space beneath them. Formerly ...
Rendering Trends: Decoding Tired Tropes of Flashy Architectural Graphics
Look at architectural renderings on a regular basis and soon you’ll start to spot stylized elements that pop up often enough to be called cliches, every one of them inserted into the image for ...
Unearthly Architecture: 13 Structures That Look Like Aliens Built Them
Pluck these structures out of their environments and photoshop them onto a Martian landscape and you’d never know they're real, physical buildings interplaying with ordinary scenery in cities ...
