Designed for Drama: 13 Fresh New Modern Theaters
A modern take on the Roman Colosseum, an abstracted wood backdrop and a recycled pop-up theater in London are among the many diverse 21st-century auditoriums that are currently being built around ...
A modern take on the Roman Colosseum, an abstracted wood backdrop and a recycled pop-up theater in London are among the many diverse 21st-century auditoriums that are currently being built around ...
Rich in symbolism and rife with meaning, these 20 abstract modern monuments and memorials radiate emotion and respect. Many architectural monuments like Daniel Libeskind's addition to the Jewish ...
Why should health care buildings be cold and impersonal? These 15 designs for both built and unbuilt healthcare-related facilities buck tradition with lots of natural light, gardens and ...
Set along a curving street, this shimmering, bejeweled building rises like the first tier of an unfinished wedding cake, thickly frosted and set with sugary decorations. While, from its ...
No, that's not a school building, though local schoolchildren will undoubtedly gaze at the facade and think about their ABCs (and perhaps get confused, realizing that a few letters are missing.) ...
Long designed with bland respectability in mind, banking institutions have rarely been places to find dazzling architecture and interior design. But if you think that's still the case in the 21st ...
No matter how engaging the actors or riveting the plot, sometimes, you're distracted by something else in a film: a dramatic architectural setting that's so dazzling, it's practically a character ...
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 ...
A concrete rectangle hovers in the air, implausibly balanced feet above the ground on just four stilts. And as if the curiously gravity-defying qualities of the exterior aren't enough, the ...
Plywood and other manufactured wood building materials are like the undergarments of architecture – foundational elements that are then covered with a more stylish, finished layer. But their ...