The Crystalline Skin for 2014 Winter Olympics

Defining themselves as a global design practice specializing in creating environments that draw people and communities together for unforgettable experiences, Populous, (formerly sports part of HOK), has annonced that they been selected to design the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Being responsible for the main Stadium and venues overlay for [...]

Glenn Murcutt – the man who touches the earth lightly

Born 25 July 1936, Glenn Murcutt is an important Australian architect. He studied architecture from 1956 to 1961 at The University of New South Wales and always had an appreciation for simple, vernacular architecture. He is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale.
Murcutt’s motto is “touch the earth lightly”; his highly economical and multi-functional architecture [...]

Paolo Soleri – Mentor of all Archologists

Born in Turin, Italy on June 21, 1919, Soleri is an Italian-American visionary architect and a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He is widely known with the notion he created: archology, ie. architecture in line with ecology, explained in detail in [...]

Dr. Ken Yeang – The Man Who Greens The High-Rise

Dr. Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist who has been designing ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficient architecture for 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974, Yeang designed large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning and wrote books on ecodesign, including “The Skyscraper: Bioclimatically Considered,” “The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable, Intensive Buildings,” [...]

The New Residential Typology for Singapore by OMA

OMA released the pictures of Ole Scheeren’s new design, The Interlace, a large-scale complex of  thirty one blocks in stacked  hexagonal configurations. Developed by CapitaLand and Hotel Properties Limited, The Interface claims to be a new residential typology for Singapore, through communal spaces and the feeling of interconnectedness.

The architecture of Singapore is marked by isolated [...]