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 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 ...

Developed by atelier-r, the renovation project of the Helfštýn Castle Palace comprised the restoration and repurposing of a Renaissance complex in the Czech Republic dating back to the 14th century.

The Bernisches Historisches Museum (History Museum of Bern) in Bern is one of the most important Museums of cultural history in Switzerland. Founded in 1889, the museum is housed in a Gothic revival ...

Entitled ‘The Laboratory of the Future’, the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale has caused much controversy. Many defined it as “an architecture biennial without architecture” and deplored an excessive ...

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 ...

Architect, urban planner, visual artist, designer, writer. Though as famous in life as Albert Einstein, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887 – 1965), better known as Le Corbusier, was a figure very ...

The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...

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 ...

The Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum is an industrial archaeology museum – sited in the municipality of Sauda, southern Norway – designed by renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Part of the Norwegian ...