Washington, D.C., is a city self-consciously styled, since its founding, to resemble ancient Rome. The neoclassicism of the White House and of the Capitol building, the now-tunnelized Tiber Creek on ...
Norman Foster has always treated technology as a form of expression. As one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture (along with his friend and colleague Richard Rogers), his buildings celebrate ...
This still-popular catchphrase, nailing the British preoccupation with World War II, comes from the 1975 sitcom Fawlty Towers. In a key episode, the eccentric manager of the titular crumbling ...
RSHP’s Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport, Wales, has been Grade II* listed The listing recognises the building as ‘a masterpiece of British High-Tech architecture’ and an important part of ...
If the word “cybertecture” calls to mind high-tech architecture that looks like it would be at home on a distant planet, you’ve already grasped about half of James Law’s unusual design philosophy. The ...
Airports are usually built with one primary mission: to move travelers from A to B safely and efficiently. However, they also happen to be the first impression international visitors get of a country.
Nicholas Grimshaw, the pioneer of High-Tech architecture best known for the Eden Project in Cornwall and the International Terminal at London’s Waterloo station, has died aged 85 The ‘extraordinary ...