Daniel Libeskind is one of the most culturally multifaceted contemporary architects. Though the general public knows him mostly for his Jewish Museum in Berlin and the (unfortunately unbuilt) design ...

Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto in 1929, the Sanatorium of Paimio, Finland, is widely regarded as the first example of modern architecture applied to healthcare. Sanatorium is a Latin word commonly ...

At the 59th Venice Art Biennale, Italy presents an installation curated by Eugenio Viola and entitled ‘History of Night and Destiny of Comets’. For the first time, the Italian Pavilion presents the ...

Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014 is an invitation to the national pavilions to show, each in their own way, the process of the erasure of national characteristics in architecture in favor of the almost ...

The necropolis “Banditaccia” in Cerveteri, near Rome, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest Etruscan archaeological site. History and general description The necropolis is located ...

Cross Laminated Timber, or CLT, is “the new kid in town” in the construction industry. Invented in Austria in the mid-1990s, this engineered timber is facing huge success and constantly growing ...

A necklace by Japanese jewelry designer Eriko Unno, made by skilfully intertwining audio cassette magnetic tape and gold leaf. Photo © E. Unno Design: recycling vs ...

The Pavilion Zero, located close to the EXPO 2015 site’s main entrance, features some of the themes which form the “backbone” of the Milan world exposition: the history of the relationship between ...

If you wonder what most people intended a “futuristic” computer to look like in the late ’70s, this little-known Dutch PC can give you an answer: it had to be something you could expect to see in the ...

A Commodore PET 2001-8; photo CC BY-SA 2.0 FR by Rama & Musée Bolo via Wikipedia Commons. Indeed, many elements of this famous late-70s PC were somewhat inspired by A Space Odyssey‘s infamous thinking ...

While approaching the Tate Modern after crossing the Thames by the Millenium Bridge, a visitor can hardly imagine what is currently happening behind the glorious former Bankside Power Station which is ...

One of the most famous architectural projects by Le Corbusier and a UNESCO world heritage site, the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, also known as Cité Radieuse, is a 1952 residential building ...