ARCHITECTURE

  • The Island Was Never the Probelm

    The Island Was Never the Probelm

    The most spectacular fifteen minutes in Toronto. I’ve stood in a lot of the world’s celebrated public spaces; plazas in Rome and Lima, riverfronts in Shanghai and London, the manicured squares of Kuala Lumpur, a boardwalk in Dallas that tries oh so hard to be a true boardwalk. But none of them do what the… Read more

  • Frank Gehry: The Architect Who Showed Us Movement in Architecture

    Frank Gehry: The Architect Who Showed Us Movement in Architecture

    On losing Frank Gehry, and remembering the decades he spent transforming material, space, and the future of architecture forever. When I woke up today I didn’t plan to write an obituary, I’ve never written one before. I’m still processing the news that Frank Gehry has passed away. For those of us obsessed with the built… Read more

  • The Anti-Mall: How Comuna 13 Outperformed Urban Planners

    The Anti-Mall: How Comuna 13 Outperformed Urban Planners

    The Neighbourhood That Rewrote Medellín Cities spend billions trying to “activate” public space. Comuna 13 did it with brick, paint, music, and a set of escalators clawing up a mountainside. Walking into it feels like stumbling into a city built on improvisation—walls turned to canvases, staircases to storefronts, every corner buzzing with kids, vendors, and… Read more

  • Neo-Andean Futurism Architecture: A Journey Through Bolivia’s Vertical Identity

    Neo-Andean Futurism Architecture: A Journey Through Bolivia’s Vertical Identity

    Riding the Teleférico to Freddy Mamani‘s Neo-Andean Dreamscape I woke up in La Paz with that specific kind of thrill only architectural pilgrims know. The kind that creeps in your chest when you realize: today you’ll get to see a building you’ve studied in photos for years or click through everytime Instagram’s algorithm finds you,… Read more

  • Brutal Concrete: The Architectural Evolution of Piccadilly Plaza in Manchester

    Brutal Concrete: The Architectural Evolution of Piccadilly Plaza in Manchester

    A deep dive into Manchester’s City Tower (originally Sunley House)—a brutalist landmark of concrete geometry, sculptural form, and evolving modernism. Read more

  • Pilgrimage to the Soviet Ministry of Highways Headquartered in Tbilisi Georgia

    Pilgrimage to the Soviet Ministry of Highways Headquartered in Tbilisi Georgia

    Rising from the forested hills on the edge of Tbilisi, the Ministry of Highways feels less like a building and more like an idea made solid — a radical composition of concrete slabs suspended midair, stacked with impossible confidence. Designed in 1975, it embodies a moment when architecture aimed to float above the landscape, not… Read more