Month: February 2023

A Masjid, usually a quintessential Islamic building, is a “place of prostration”, which means ‘kneeling’. Islamic architecture is not regional. Over the years, most of the pre-Islamic vernacular forms and characteristics have gradually become an eclectic mix of the elements and characteristics of areas where Islam had spread. Unlike historical monumental mosques, contemporary mosques are designed to exhibit these transformed forms establishing a unique identity of their own; ‘Masjid-e-Zubaida’ being one such example.

Within a gated community in the northeast of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a plot of rectangular proportion is presented in relation to a heterogeneous built environment.

Located in a private area and between two access roads, one for vehicles and the other one for pedestrians, the ”U” plan gently opens onto the lawn and palm trees, framing them and placing a pool in its center. Featuring the social area on the ground floor, the project organizes the bedrooms on the upper floor.

The Overall Winner of the 2022 Architecture Drawing Prize was announced today by the World Architecture Festival and Prize co-curators Make Architects and Sir John Soane’s Museum.

fala atelier designs ‘suspended house’ as an ambiguous volume   In an artery connecting Porto’s city centre to its suburbs, where individual houses are being demolished daily to leave place for bigger housing developments, fala a…