From Kyoto’s blend of old and new to Vienna’s rich design contrasts, here are some awe-inspiring destinations for you to visit

For 142 years now, Sagrada Família has been growing toward the sky. Or at least that’s what it seems to be doing, as its ongoing construction realizes ever more fully a host of forms that look and feel not quite of this earth. It makes a kind of sense to learn that, in designing the […]

A vast majority of what we build today can actually be done more appropriately and reversibly with natural materials, says SATHYA PRAKASH VARANASHI

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A building should have greenery, sound of water flowing, feel of natural stone under the feet, the smell of trees, flowers and fresh mud, and a charming yet sensitive design, feels architect Mona Doctor Pingel. A look by Nandhini Sundar.

The Kailasanatha temple, near Mannarkoil, is associated with the Sun god.

‘Didi evocatively narrated her designs as stories as she drew. By living her ideals in day-to-day life, she introduced me to an elegantly simple lifestyle,’ says Didi’s student Lakshmi Swaminathan

Field trips, hands-on experience and affordable tuition fee… Neelakshi Joshi writes about her PhD study in Germany.

Mishru’s new couture edit of lehengas, cocktail dresses, and jumpsuits, showcases a fusion of botanical elements and architectural inspirations 

A number of less known palaces and edifices have either collapsed or lie in a state of neglect fighting for survival while many more have already been erased for the construction of high rise apartments

Faisal Manzur of Faisal Manzur Design Studio on designing the stunning wooden doors at Chennai’s The Entrance Café, Pandan Club, and why he draws inspiration from TV shows and Wes Anderson movies

Indian architect BV Doshi has passed away, at the age of 95. Trained under Le Corbusier, he was the only Indian to have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize

The competition is open to professional architects, architectural firms, and architecture students, with a focus on creating a self-sustaining, state-of-the-art facility that integrates residential facilities and promotes cricket as a global sporting event.

Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Retailers, architects, town planners have suggested Nitin Gadkari to allow malls resume operations, e-commerce operations for non-essential items, relief in rentals for retailers, extend moratorium period to nine months and more.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Saturday, absolved himself of stigmatizing the state’s COVID-19 index case, Mrs. Susan Okpe (Nee Lawani). Ortom, who called on Mrs. Okpe to stop vilifying him, said he’s not the architect of her problem. The governor was responding to several videos by Mrs. Okpe wherein she accused him of […]

COVID-19: ‘I’m not architect of your problems, stop vilifying me’ – Gov. Ortom warns Benue index case, Susan Okpe

Making a virtue out of global lockdown, our critic takes a virtual tour of the world’s best new architecture projects – from a rural Vietnamese preschool to a Belgian folly and a synagogue in Paraguay

It’s a good principle that, except in exceptional circumstances, architecture critics see the buildings that they review. You wouldn’t want a food critic to recommend a restaurant based on photographs of loaded plates, nor a theatre critic to base their judgments on films of performances. You’re meant to sniff, feel and sense the things you describe, to experience them in the round.

There’s a downside to this good principle, which is that buildings don’t come to you, and that many fine works are done all over the world which it would be absurdly expensive and eco-reckless to visit. Circumstances are, what’s more, what can only be described as exceptional. Given that almost everywhere is now almost equally inaccessible, whether another county or another continent, I’ve decided to make an opportunity out of a problem, and to offer a world tour of the very best new architecture, as seen through the portal of a laptop.

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Good design in any discipline usually carries a structure of order and harmony. Since the Renaissance, artists and architects have used a strong understanding of proportions to create aesthetically pleasing architecture. Many of these classical design principles have followed us into modern times and can be found today in effective web design.

Take an A4 piece of paper for example. If you take it and halve it, the resulting size is A5 with the same exact proportions. No other proportion has the same properties. 16th century architect, Andrea Palladio knew this well. It is believed that because, fundamentally, most architects—like Palladio—use a similar system of proportions to plan and design spaces, buildings can look very different while remaining similar at their cores.

Structure and Beauty

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Malaria is a devastating disease caused by a protozoan parasite. It affects over 300 million individuals and results in over 400 000 deaths annually, most of whom are young children under the age of five. Hexokinase, the first enzyme in glucose metabolism, plays an important role in the infection process and represents a promising target for therapeutic intervention. Here, cryo-EM structures of two conformational states of Plasmodium vivax hexokinase (PvHK) are reported at resolutions of ∼3 Å. It is shown that unlike other known hexokinase structures, PvHK displays a unique tetrameric organization (∼220 kDa) that can exist in either open or closed quaternary conformational states. Despite the resemblance of the active site of PvHK to its mammalian counterparts, this tetrameric organization is distinct from that of human hexokinases, providing a foundation for the structure-guided design of parasite-selective antimalarial drugs.

A bird’s nest is a small bowl-shaped collection of twigs and straw built on a tree branch. Right? Well…maybe. As Chris Milensky, museum specialist in […]

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Following the repudiation of a proposed English Channel bridge, a less costly 'Celtic Connection' between Scotland and Northern Ireland gains traction.

"Vertical Churches" give viewers a head-turning look at some of the most beautiful architecture in the world.

Could this be a Christmas miracle in London ... or the ultimate cold weather pipe dream?

Complimentary or not, Thomas Paino welcomes the attention being lavished on his super-efficient Long Island City rowhouse.

The Brock Environmental Center's 'regenerative' design is key to its AIA recognition — it generates 80 percent more energy than it uses.

Humans have spent countless centuries perfecting the science (and art!) of collecting, storing and transporting water. Here's how ancient India did it.

Bjarke attack! The Danish maverick is the subject of a climate-themed retrospective at the National Building Museum.

Leave it to Shigeru Ban to breathe ingenious new life into the painfully abundant remains of a major catastrophe.

How they can provide some space for the next generation as well.

The treehouse-esque bunkhouses of Whitetail Woods Regional Park score big at the AIA Housing Awards.

From Apple's Spaceship HQ to GE's Boston campus, these solar-integrated designs are raising the bar.

They're stylish, they're strong, and they support design-based recovery in disaster-stricken areas. What more could you ask for in a pair of specs?

Find out what green architect and Mainer Chris Briley thinks about sustainable design, passive home heating, and the cost difference between conventional and gr

'Mobitecture' features portable works of architecture including campers, floating cabins and trampoline tents.

This year's Pritzker Prize winner, Shigeru Ban, brings sustainable, innovative architecture to disaster zones in the form of resilient paper-based structures.

The editors of Architectural Record have compiled a list of the 'most significant works that defined architecture in our era.'

This venture will create and modernize the Enterprise Architecture program, ultimately enabling Voice of America to develop and enhance it's mission to produce and distribute news media.