architecture

Modern architecture can be bland and depressing. People do not want to live in soulless apartment blocks, but in neighbourhoods with beautiful traditional architecture. That is why when a town extension was planned for Knokke-Heist in Belgium, developers had to stick to the traditional Flemish...

This amazing building was built in the 1980s and was the largest convention centre in Europe at the time. It has been abandoned since 2014 but there are plans to rehabilitate it. It's really quite stunning, especially when you see all the engineering that went into it.

Concrete, and more specifically reinforced concrete, has allowed humans to build huge structures, like bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers, which have revolutionised the urban landscape since the mid-20th century. But concrete has been overused. Cities have been defaced by ugly concrete buildings...

This video captures exactly how I've been feeling all my adult life about modern architecture. Many famous architect strive to create the most original buildings possible without thinking about their functionality, how it fits within the city where it is built, or even whether they are...

Potsdam is Germany's Versailles. Located Southwest of Berlin it became the seat of the Hohenzollern family, rulers of Brandenburg, then Prussia, then the whole of Germany. The city was carpet bombed by the British just a few days before the end of World War II and further disfigured by the...