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The 9-million-square-foot Marina Bay Sands is a beautiful blend of geometry and mathematics- an integration of order and complexity... a flying visit... It takes years of planning, executing and finishing gargantuan structures that become beacons of socio-cultural progress and hi-profile entertainment venues for public at large.

Photography: Courtesy Karim Noorani & Co. Modern corporate canteens require new interpretations of design. Ar. Biswas & Kumar Associates articulates this fact via an exigent kitchen facility in Mumbai... Corporate culture has seen a sea-change in recent times.

Photographs: Courtesy Olson Kundig Architects Ar. Jim Olson's residential dwelling in a Californian hillside exudes his archetypal communiqué with site and surrounding, climate and culture... "Peacefulness and harmony are radical in today's world because they have become so rare. I want to bring harmony and love of nature back as an everyday experience."

Architecture in China can so often be polarising. In fact, the entire industry seems to have that affect on the world. There are those who applaud the Chinese for their extensive and rapid construction work, which includes the world's fastest apartment construction, the creation of entire cities in just five years and of course the developments in Shenzhen, one of the world's fastest growing cities. And then there are others who critique the country for having a 'fake' and 'blood soaked' GDP due to high levels of what some have labeled 'dangerous and unnecessary' industry work. Well, the design debate has been sparked yet again with the unveiling of China's latest industry venture.

The entire approach to education has been gradually and consistently undergoing a shift. Check out the reconstitution of this horticultural school in the south of France and leave us your views…

Zaha Hadid Architects' symbolic design of the Messner Mountain Museum is a take on 'exploring caverns and grottos' in her inimitable signature style. Check it out and tell us what you think about it…

extensive _ nourrished comments to architecture for inspirations and criticisms ... get up and the downs

finding ways to architecture

about things, objects in the future... there...

many industrial references .. and other good to be seen stuffs ... inspiration there too. It's aklso about topologies.. well good for 3D urban...and other builders .

situation of architecture ? inside..nations, lands, Earth...and many cultural practices...finding many different solutions...

the question about...

...who knows ...more ideas there ? ...

form the mag ... good articles ..

to explore to have more ideas about some future...

here for some prospectives ---> about mass creativity and some architects' practices... unifying ? no... sharing, yes... the next economy is beginning to be in place, for all !

Design Forum International (DFI) designs tea-leaf shaped blocks for Assam Government's new Directorate Complex in Guwahati.

New concepts and ideologies to counter growing urban concerns spearhead the 2016 eVolo award-winner - New York Horizon. Check out this concept and tell us what you think about it…

CannonDesign and its Yazdani Studio designs a transformative TCS building in Kolkata paying homage to the traditional Indian courtyard typology. Check it out here…

The pandemic should help us settle the long-drawn debate - open plan, the cubicle, or the hybrid. Here we make a case for the design studio.

OPEN Architecture delineate three community functions in an iconic building in Shanghai with an aim to nurture a holistic community environment

SL Architects craft a low-impact footprint for a new open-air music venue in Bahrain, meeting recycling/ re-use objectives for a circular design.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently unveiled UNStudio's design, tentatively naming it 'Seoul Twin Eye'. The project is part of the Mayor of Seoul's vision 'Han River with a Thousand Sunsets', a vision to create a thousand spots along the Han River as public spaces for the people of Seoul. Collaborating stalwarts include Arup and Heerim Architects.

Inspired by a kids' game of broken telephone, where the inputs and outputs don't always exactly match, Hello, Hello is a poetic messaging system inside a luminescent arch that turns peoples' voices into a lyrical spectacle. Created by Daily tous les jours, an emergent field of practice that combines interactive art, storytelling, performance, and urban design to create unexpected experiences that bring strangers together in a spirit of play, cooperation, and creativity, the permanent public art installation is part of a broader vision for "Joy Experiments" - interventions designed to foster community through play.