Singapore’s urban development has been fast paced over the past half century. After becoming an independent republic in 1965, the small island state with limited land and natural resources and a current population of approximately 5.6 million embarked rapidly on… Read More »Equatorial Utopia: 50 Years of Visionary Architecture in Singapore
RAIL is a research team of six architects focused on the transformation of an existing freight line that extends from the NYC Harbor, across South Brooklyn into Queens and The Bronx. Their project is an experiment in generating a creative… Read More »Six Memos for the South Brooklyn Line
In the last four decades, Abu Dhabi City grew along its iron grid, and beyond, leading to massive urban developments. This development was fueled by oil revenues and often driven by the dominant real estate market. In this process, the… Read More »Abu Dhabi Vertical Studio
David Jacobson, is a British sculptor who works between London and Italy. His works have been widely exhibited across the UK, USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and South Africa. His work is represented in public collections including the Victoria… Read More »David Jacobson – Don’t save me, Save water!
From Olmsted to Van Valkenburgh Across half a century, faculty and students of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have contributed to the continuous construction of Buffalo, New York, through hundreds of acts of planning, design, and… Read More »Buffalo Constructing Buffalo
The theoretical architectural project GHETTO by Henriquez Partners Architects, proposes the provision of housing for refugees funded through a condominium timeshare model. The intention is to illustrate the power of the role of the architect in the creation of inclusive… Read More »GHETTO: a hypothetical integration of refugees into Venice
Havana is collapsing, and its agony is long and silent. There is no rubble; there are ruins. San Cristóbal de La Habana, as it was called in 1519 by the conqueror Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, celebrated its 500th anniversary in… Read More »Habana Siglo XXI: Inventory of a city