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Luminaries

Architecture

Photography, architecture, design and creative culture.

©Alex Lesage
Architecture

Light as a Filter

Atelier Carle’s OAKV, a winner at the Architecture MasterPrize, turns a dermatology clinic in an anonymous suburban business center into a gradual journey from public space to private care. Some of the most demanding architectural briefs arrive without a remarkable site. No view, no landmark, no generous daylight. Just a unit in a business center, […]

©Photos by Iwan Baan
Architecture

The Architecture of Openness

How REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Center brings theatrical flexibility and a luminous civic presence to Lower Manhattan.

Architecture

Architecture at the Water’s Edge

LYT-X Studio reimagines a historic harbor structure in Le Havre as a cultural place shaped by wind, memory, and public life.

Architecture

A New Language for Sacred Space

At Wanbao Christian Church in Fujian, symbolic interiors connect religious narrative with the marine identity of Pingtan Island.

©Photos by Terrence Zhang
Architecture

The Museum as an Experience

At Hangzhou’s Yohoo Lake, Aedas draws on the language of jade to imagine a new kind of cultural landmark.

© Onze04 Architectes
Architecture

A Building for Shared Civic Life

Onze04 Architectes and the possibilities of combining sports and culture under one roof.

©Pexel blondre3006
Architecture

Beyond the Beautiful Rendering

What a building reveals when we examine climate, use, material and time.

© SYMBOLPLUS INC.
Architecture

Designing the Contemporary Workplace

Symbolplus Office as a starting point for thinking about identity and interior space.