Finally images have appeared in the Olympic stadium by Herzog & DeMeuron next to the China Architecture Design Institute. If you looked at the render complex construct, in reality the method is very conventional.
The building covers an area of 204,100 m2, is covered with a transparent membrane and a retractable roof. In the photos you [...]

The term modern architecture is open to various interpretations though the general notion is about simplification of form. It could be a reaction to the excesses in ornamentations of the previous styles. It could be about new possibilities that technology and materials can offer for buildings.
Postmodern architecture has also been described as “neo-eclectic”, where reference [...]

The house is planned so that all rooms can have a cross drought if required, day and night, to obviate the need for air-conditioning. Rainwater on primary roofs and terraces is collected and stored in large cisterns under the pool terraces.The entrance and rear gardens have been carefully terraced and landscaped using hand cut local stone for the retaining walls to the terraces which are planted with old olive trees and scented wild flowers. Olive trees are the only “new” plants introduced to the site

The stunning design completed by architecture firm RMJM is about as green as it is tall. The city is also finding international resistance. St. Petersburg is currently listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, but stands to be stripped of the title if the tower is built.

Last year, Marbach made its architectural ascent in status when the city’s Museum of Modern Literature, designed by David Chipperfield to reconnect Germany’s literature once separated by the East/West divide, won the Sterling Prize – a most coveted architecture award. This year, perched on 6900 m2 of land atop a hill facing the museum, a [...]