The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art

Freeways are not the most thrilling of urban spaces. They are repetitive. They are bleak. They are, nevertheless, necessary to get you quickly from point A to point B. However, should you drive along a section of Melbourne’s Princes Freeway, flashes of …

Ancient Andean burial mounds reveal early hunter-gatherer roots of monumental architecture

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, inequality and controlled labor forces. But this notion is …

‘Peace, Love and Perfection’ at Crome Architecture

When Joshua Whitaker and his family decided to make the move to Yellow Springs from the Bay Area of California, he knew the move would have dual meaning — leaving the west coast and returning to his family’s roots in central Ohio. This sense of merging the …

New Exhibition At Whanganui Regional Museum Celebrates Sacred Architecture

By Karen Hughes Our Places of Worship is on display at Whanganui Regional Museum (Photo credit: Karen Hughes/Whanganui Regional Museum / Supplied)Whanganui Regional Museum is proud to announce the opening of Our Places of Worship, a captivating …

Discovering Milan on foot: the architecture of Porta Venezia

Inside the inhabited wall, there was a long, continuous colonnade overlooking a vast lawn (about the size of 20 football fields) in the center of which stood a central octagonal shrine, open on all sides, which, in a panoptic arrangement, allowed all the …

Photos by Charly Broyez and Laurent Kronental Celebrate Architecture Ahead of Its Time

Forty minutes east of Montpellier on France’s Mediterranean coast sits a midcentury complex once disparaged as “architectural pollution” by L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. The seminal work of architect Jean Balladur, La Grande Motte — which means “the big …

Streaming data architecture

Streaming data architecture is transforming how organizations manage and analyze their data in real-time. With the increasing need for timely insights, businesses are adopting this architecture to process continuous streams of information efficiently. This …

Japanese experts reflect on Tang architecture legacy

As one of the world's three major architectural traditions, ancient Chinese architecture, particularly dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), is widely regarded as the pinnacle of wooden architectural art and engineering. Its influence has been …

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Churrigueresque: How Spain’s most over-the-top architecture took the world (briefly) by storm

FROM the palaces of Spain to the cathedrals of colonial Mexico and the revivalist flair of early 20th-century California, the Churrigueresque style dazzled with theatrical excess and sculptural extravagance – a brief but unforgettable flourish in …