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architecture as an obsession
(site is a work in progress)

The inspiration is simple: architecture. The history and development of the structures, the careers of the designers, and the ever increasing resources that make up the world of architecture.

From the great pyramids of Egypt to the new super high rise developments in Dubai and China, a wealth of architecture is provided, including profiles of architects and current amazing architectural components.

Watch for an array of tools, utilities and interactive displays to help guide through this architectural obsession.

Daily Architectural Highlight


 

Nanyang Technological University

This new school of art, design, and media preserves open space, while serving as a green icon for the university. When Nanyang Technological University (NTU), revisited its Kenzo Tange designed master plan in 1993, it designated a green belt at the heart of the 500-acre campus as open space. But as the schools land became increasingly scarce, the new School of Art, Design, and Media needed a permanent home, so with the help of the Singapore-based architecture firm CPG Consultants, which came with extensive experience working on the master plan, NTU built an environmentally friendly non-building building, that would allow it to build on the central green space without taking away from it.

Formed by two sloping, tapering arcs that interlock with a third, smaller arc, the School of Art, Design, and Media is a 5 story structure housing more than two dozen studios and laboratories, two galleries, and as many lecture halls, alongside classrooms, a soundstage, a 450-seat auditorium, and other spaces spanning a library to prototyping rooms.

Singapore, Singapore 07/01/09

A new trend in architectural development is the construction of "complete" city centers, such as Moscow International Business Center. Other notable mixed-use city centers in development or recently completed are:

architecture as an obsession!