How Architect Shin Ohori Play with Light and Shadow

PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEEKEND HOUSE by Shin Ohori, Architect of General Design co.,ltd. A request from the client, a photographer, was to build a space where light and shadow would interplay beautifully. Continue

Cloud City: 170 meters tall emblem structure

Cloud City is a tall emblem structure in Za'abeel Park. The design is David Tajchman's proposal to the international open architecture competition for a tall emblem structure in Dubai. Continue

Slits Replacing Windows

This house is made "only" by slits, there are no windows. The wall of 105 m lengths with 60 slits surrounding the site realizes the architectural space in this narrow and long site. No other architecture has ever been realized by such a method. Continue

The Aim of the Game: Albert Abut

Albert Abut, the Principal Architects of TRIPLE A ARCHITECTS PLANNERS was twelve years old when he decided to become an architect. He also started sailing with dinghies at this age. Continue

Architecture of Dancing Shadows and Light

The form of this architecture was constructed to make light and shadows dance, by Anna Nakamura+Taiyo Jinno EASTERN design office. Continue

Kimono Inspired Architecture

The client is a traditional craftsman who puts the crest on Japanese traditional clothes. The workshop area and the living area are separated but also connected. The client and his daughter need to have their work and home under the same roof. The crest making is a delicate work and also a business. Continue

Great Architecture Begins with a Promise: Max Strang

Max Strang, the principle of Max Strang Architecture graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture at the University of Florida, in 1994. He received a Masters Degree at Columbia University, and an honor award for design excellence. Before establishing his own firm, he worked for architect Zaha Hadid in London. Continue

Spirit in Space & Light: Battleground of Invisible Forces

Knut Hamsun, Norway’s most inventive twentieth-century writer, fabricated new forms of expression in his first novel Hunger. He went on to found a truly modern school of fiction with his works Pan, Mysteries, and Growth of Hamarøy near the farm where writer grew up. Continue

Making a Building Flow with Nature

This construction by TAKAO SHIOTSUKA ATELIER is a banquet hall, along with a marriage ceremony hall, in Oita-city, Oita, Japan. The client requested that the ceremony hall should at least be able to consist of 40 people. Continue

YOYOGI: How to bring modern life into a 80 m2 house in Tokyo

The Yoyogi is a 80 m2 house in Shibuya ward, Tokyo by Front Office Tokyo. The mission with this project was to construct a house that consisted of a rather small area in central Tokyo and then give it a modern look. Continue

Company Chairman of SHH, David Spence: Fight to be the Forefront of People’s minds

As founding partner of SHH and Company Chairman, architect David Spence has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. He’s the client director of the company and takes care of all residential projects in their studio. Continue

The Exterior Giving the Interior its Appearance: Garden House in Tokyo

Kochi Architects Studio has constructed the Garden House in Tokyo. Their strategy here was to not seperate the interior with exterior. Continue

Philip Michael Wolfson: Approach to Design should Always be Developing

Philip Michael Wolfson shares his thoughts on the approach of design for every designer, and how his design approach became "something personal and individual." He started his architecture studies in Ithaca, New York at Cornell University. Continue

SLEEPBOX- Comfortable Urban Infrastructure

Imagine the situation that you are in the modern city, where you are not a local resident, and you have not booked a hotel. It is not comfortable situation, because in the modern, aggressive cities there are no opportunity to rest and relax. If you want to sleep, while waiting your plane or train, it may cause many security and hygiene problems. Continue

An Exercise of Faith: Kenneth Nilson on Being a Designer

Designer Kenneth Nilson started his education in design at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992. Continue

Don’t Look Too Much at Other Architects: Pascal Grasso

Parisian architect Pascal Grasso currently most known for his Nomiya architecture in Paris has done an interview here with DUDYE where he explains his projects and profession. Continue

Design is Changing: Roderick N.Shade

Roderick Shade's design philosophy is to always think of the client's needs and wishes first. He is well known for founding the Harlem United Show House, the first African American exhibition. Continue

Shenzhen International Energy Mansion

BIG received first prize on an invited competition to design the Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, for the Shenzhen Energy Company. Read more on how they planned out the project. Continue

Start Fresh on Each New Project: Bart Prince

Bart Prince is an American architect who was born June 24, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He toke an interest in architecture at a very early age, before he knew what the name for “architecture” meant, he began making drawings and building models. Continue

You do Become Broad Minded: Robert Couturier

Architect Robert Couturier believes that “original ideas comes from the sum of all we know, have learned and absorbed”. He has been awarded the award of being The AD 100 represents of the top architects and interior designer. Continue