The materials shaping architecture today are no longer being chosen only for how they look or how easily they replicate at scale. They are being reconsidered for what they cost …
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Fact File Project: Resting Pavilion, Osaka Expo 2025 Location: Yumeshima, Osaka, Japan Area: 248 m² Architects: MIDW Structure: Jun Yanagimuro Structure Design, Toshiaki Kimura Furniture: Studio arche Year: 2025 Photography: …
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The floor holds the body… the wall defines the room…. But it is the ceiling that carries the building’s most unguarded statement about what it believes and who it imagines …
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Underfoot The floor is the only surface in architecture that the body cannot ignore. Everything else can be looked away from. The floor is always there, underfoot, and what it …
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The Portland Vase. Roman, 1 to 25 AD. Cameo glass. Height 24.5 cm, diameter 17.7 cm. British Museum, London, Room 70. It is smaller than you expect. Standing in Room …
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The entrance to Jungle Homes Tadoba is a set of doors that did not originate here. Massive carved wooden panels salvaged from a rundown wada somewhere in Maharashtra, their surface …
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The wall to the left of the reception desk in this 6,512-square-foot office interior for a developer company in Kolkata is the one that takes the longest to read: floor-to-ceiling …
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The stained glass that fills the semicircular arch on the front facade of this two-storey laterite house in Anjuna, Goa, is not decorative in any conventional sense; its scale alone …
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In the heart of Jammu, Sana Chouhan Salon by Aviral Design Studio reimagines the contemporary salon as a sculpted retreat rather than a fast-paced commercial interior. Conceived as a deeply immersive beauty …
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Located at the corner of two streets in Ahmedabad, The Breeze Court House by Studio Blank Canvas is designed as a private residence for an intergenerational family of five. The project responds …