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 ...

Tadao Ando, The Hundred Step Garden, Awaji, Japan. Photo by 663highland via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 license. Tadao Ando is renowned for his extreme attention to nature, specifically the relation ...

These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...

The Bosco Verticale / Vertical Forest high-rise complex in Milan, view from the Porta Nuova Gardens looking west. Photo © Riccardo Bianchini / Inexhibit The Vertical ...

The S. R. Crown Hall is a landmark building designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the early 1950s for the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus in Chicago. Despite not being the first to ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have been following the work of Luzinterruptus – the Spanish collective renowned for its provocative installations aimed to draw attention to major social and environmental issues – for a long time ...

Originating from a collaboration between architect Mario Cucinella – MCA and 3D-printer manufacturer WASP, TECLA is a prototype eco-house built near Ravenna, northern Italy, entirely made by 3D ...

Conceived as a sort of “magic portal” between the land of the living and the realm of the dead, the Dřetovice stream footbridge, in the Czech Republic, connects the village of Vrapice with its ...

Update: the EMP museum was renamed MoPOP (Museum of POP Culture) in 2017. The semi-permanent exhibition “Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses” reopened at the museum in 2018 after touring in South ...

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 ...