Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells SPIEGEL his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends ...

Many have spoken in the past about Singapore's adeptness at first impressions. A certain Mr Koolhaas even once coined the term 'Potemkin State' to describe the Republic's willingness to cover up the unsightly, as did  Russian minister ...

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WorldArchitectureNews.com - JIA Shanghai, the city’s first design-led boutique residence, scooped ‘Best Hotel Design of the Year’ award in the annual INTERIOR DESIGN China (IDC) Hospitality Design Awards. JIA Shanghai won the ...

by Stephen Bailey Frank Gehry's Serpentine Pavilion is wonderful and absurd. Wonderful because it is exuberant. Wonderful, too, simply because it exists (if only for three months). Absurd because it repudiates logic. But, then, temporary buildings are licensed to be free ...

by Alice Rawsthorne, IHT.com LONDON: Design is all about change. It can help us to understand the changes in the world around us, and turn them to our advantage by translating them into things that ...

Tokyo - Woven into a rare stand of trees, Hiroshi Nakamura's apartment building offers business travelers a place to land. By Cathelijne Niujsink for MetropolisMag

he New York Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff writes: BEIJING — Historical cycles that took a century to unfold in the West can be compressed into less than a decade in today’s China. And that’s as true of Beijing’s preservation movement ...

Kajima's floor-by-floor slow demolition is one of those rare things in life that leaves you truly speechless, mouth wide-open, and pinching yourself to be sure this is real while you mutter "what the frak." After all, seeing the ...

The Guardian.co.uk - It is known as the Veil and is described by its architects as a giant glass Muslim headscarf in the heart of Paris. The former French president Jacques Chirac saw it as ...