Category: Contemporary Architecture
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Two Buildings by Antoine Predock: Phoenix
Antoine Predock’s architecture occupies a distinct and influential position in contemporary American design, defined by its powerful engagement with landscape, movement, and cultural memory. His work consistently resists conventional formalism, instead emerging from an intimate reading of place—its geology, climate, and mythologies.
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Baroque Materialism in Hudson Yards
The Vessel project, although celebrated by its greatness and scale, reflects a disconcerting reality: the prioritization of the show on the substance, a distinctive seal of baroque thinking and contemporary capitalist culture.
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The Architectural Significance of Marcel Breuer’s Becton Engineering Building
Two buildings primarily dotting up the Yale University Campus architecture at New Haven. The Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building and Marcel Breuer’s Becton engineering building. Both are the finest example of brutalist phase of modern architecture
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Memorials: Architecture of Redundance
We are witnessing the era of architectural experimentation in the process of progressive generalized abstraction not allowing the sensory experience to assimilate the relationship of concrete to abstract or vice versa
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Perez’ Art Museum, Miami. Fl.
The architecture of the building reflects the marginal shift from the tightly control envelops to laissez faire envelope of tropical architecture. As one experiences the building, it deflects the thought into where is envelop and where are the spaces.
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High Key Architecture of Richard Rogers
The architecture of Richard Rogers is an advanced version of Miesian imagination. He celebrated architecture and filled the world of architecture with stunning and encapsulating timeless buildings.
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Anthology of Houses – PART V
The blog attempted to bring about how architects in contemporary times has re-invented the house, program and its formal imagination. Architectural responses are primitive or intellectually thought provoking, either way it is a reflection of time, people and cultural priority. The houses are mere box that absorbs the vastness of paradigmatic changes.
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ANTHOLOGY OF HOUSES – PART IV
The house and nature are given and modernity or modern means have to be dealt with. All the houses that are showed here are built in different timeline but all of them endorse the broader philosophy of built form and nature as singular code.
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Anthology of Houses – Part I
Houses have always remained as theoretical excursions or playfield to reinvent architecture and set new cannons for contemporary paradigm in Architecture.
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ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT: ENRIC MIRALLES
The Architecture of Scottish Parliament on first thought defies the question of identity, the explicit sense of belonging and collective iconography in contextual sense.
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ZAHA HADID: INNOVATION TOWER, HONG KONG
The recently opened Innovation tower building in Hon kong Polytechnic University is fine example of contemporary building practice by Zaha Hadid. The building has spectacular presence in central open space where existing buildings have their dated presence of modernist era. The eccentric cascade of fluid form draws the attention among the brick cladded disciplined modern building. The…
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Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Museum in PARIS
The Museum building designed and constructed in 2006 by known architect Jean Nouvel. The museum building located just behind the Eiffel tower and along the water edge. The museum houses the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the America. Jean Nouvel’s architecture of the building is often deals with urban field. The…
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TATE MODERN EXTENSION: LONDON
The bankside turbin power station was converted into a national art gallery and public place in 1995, which has set an example of readaptive use of industrial architectural heritage in the time of de-industrialization of cities. The setting of the place at bank of Thames also has perhaps shaped its popularity as being most popular…
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ROCA MUSEUM-LONDON: ZAHA HADID
The world of art has seen significant development in art domain during early 1900. The initial period led by Henry Matisse, attempted to abandon any attempt at descriptive, naturalist use of colour and form while Picasso and Braque paved the way non-euclidean means of representing space and form. The abstract and non-objective works attempted to free the art…
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LONDON: ARCHITECTURE OF FIERCE EPISODE
London has not much changed from imperial point of view of the city, rather it has changed from left over city point of view. It has few blocks modified randomly and few are added too much of the desire to retain old character. The cacophony of resultant architecture of old fabric is a not far…
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ARCHITECTURE OF BRANDS
When question is raised on ideological rooting within the moral stamp & canonical paramount of architecture, the resultant cultural manifestation, very often remains aloof and outside the discourse on architectural criticism and its responsibilities. It can take various forms and finds its treacherous escape from its representational responsibilities. The most didactic forms of cultural manifestation becomes most material & subservient expression of product. Architecture oscillates between…
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COROLLARY HOUSE
The house is an expression of self imagination of mended undefined reality. The view that imagined to be framed by the window is a corollary to the desired views. The views and viewed are hinged on subconscious activity of mind. The view changes with intense distraction of what is viewed, the existence of window oscillates…
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YILAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: TAIWAN
Every culture strives for its identity by mean of architectural manifestation. Their formal language often depicts the nature of porosity that any culture ready to absorb by new means in conversation with global imperatives. It is difficult to comment on aspiration of any such endeavor but its very approach that designer solemnly aspired to…
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HWANG’S ALBUM
PRETEXT Architecture is most dynamic form of art whose limits are pushed beyond its boundary defined by its predecessor. It is very often derives its momentum from global forces and aspiration. The priority that one exercise depends on various traits that shapes individual and our cultural aspiration. The momentum that modernism exerted on globalism resulted…
