ParametricArchitecture

10/07/2025

The Tianfu Habitat Pavilion by CSWADI in Chengdu explores architecture as an extension of the landscape, featuring a series of interlocking ring-shaped roofs that form a spatial continuum of gardens, courtyards, and walkways.🌿

Designed for the Chengdu World Horticultural Exhibition 2024, the pavilion unfolds as a continuous spatial sequence of gardens and courtyards, where natural light and greenery flow across different levels. Its layered roofscape reflects the undulating geography of Sichuan, transforming the pavilion into a living, walkable terrain.

📸 Arch-Exist

10/07/2025

📌“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” — Le Corbusier

Today, we remember one of the most influential figures in modern architecture. Born October 6, 1887, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Le Corbusier redefined the built environment through radical ideas that shaped the 20th century.

✨From Villa Savoye to Unité d’Habitation, his works explored geometry, proportion, and the relationship between human life and space. His concepts, the Five Points of Architecture, the Modulor, and the idea of a machine for living, still echo in the design language of our cities today.

His vision wasn’t just about buildings; it was about how we live within them.

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10/07/2025

20 New Stadiums Opening in 2027: Upcoming Sports Venues Worldwide

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10/07/2025

📢Meet the best architects in the world!

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Shigeru Ban’s approach is rooted in research on recyclable and durable materials.

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10/07/2025

📚✨ Unveiled during Milan Design Week 2025 at the historic Pinacoteca di Brera, Library of Light is a kinetic, 18-meter-wide cylindrical installation by renowned British designer Es Devlin. Inspired by funfair carousels, this rotating pavilion holds 3,000 curated books and uses angled mirrors to reflect sunlight into the 17th-century courtyard, creating an ever-shifting interplay of architecture, literature, and light. Commissioned by Salone del Mobile.Milano and supported by Feltrinelli Editore, the piece invites visitors into an immersive, participatory experience — part sculpture, part ride, part storytime stage.

At 8PM each evening, the installation transforms into a live storytelling space, featuring readings from iconic authors like Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Octavia E. Butler — alongside voices such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Es Devlin herself. More than a spectacle, Devlin describes libraries as “vital emergency services” in a time of digital echo chambers, offering a rotating lens into new perspectives. Library of Light doesn’t just reflect sunlight — it reflects the urgent need for human connection through shared knowledge.

📸 Monica Spezia

10/07/2025

Tehran’s Mousavi Music Instruments Gallery by Neda Mirani

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10/07/2025

〰️Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is a landmark project located within Education City in Doha, Qatar. Completed in 2024, it stands as the first purpose-built contemporary mosque dedicated solely to women in the Muslim world. Commissioned by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the 50,000-square-foot building is envisioned as a space for inclusive worship, learning, and dialogue. The mosque features a 9,400-square-foot prayer hall rotated 17 degrees to align with Mecca, with a roof that diffuses daylight through over 5,000 light wells and extends to shade surrounding spaces. Two olive trees, a symbol of peace and rootedness in Islamic tradition, emerge through the roof, anchoring the mosque in its spiritual and ecological context.

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Inside, the Qibla wall’s undulating form highlights the mihrab and minbar, while a custom hand-tufted carpet—sized for 750 worshippers and designed with a pixelated reinterpretation of traditional prayer rugs—spans the main hall. The mosque also houses a library of over 8,000 volumes, emphasizing Islamic and women’s scholarship. The adjacent multi-purpose hall adapts to educational events and expands worship capacity during Ramadan. A 128-foot tensile steel minaret reimagines the call to prayer with speakers that ascend and descend daily, evoking the traditional ritual of the muezzin. Wrapped in a patterned steel mesh inspired by mashrabiya screens, the minaret reflects a contemporary take on Islamic architectural heritage.

📸 Iwan Baan

10/06/2025

10/06/2025

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10/06/2025

German design firm 3deluxe designed the Butterfly Pavilion, shaded by its defining golden roof on Noor Island in the middle of the capital of the Arab Emirate Sharjah. The polygonal architecture is an artificial eco-system, and its rainforest biotope – populated with countless butterflies – is housed inside a sealed climate skin.�
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The biosphere’s steel structure is clad with an all glass façade construction, providing just a minimal barrier between inside and outside. Organic skylights provide spectacular views into the shading structure and allow shadows of the golden leaves to enter the aviary. The light that enters and the shadows this creates define the mood inside the biotope.

📸 Joaquín Busch, Björn Asmussen

10/06/2025

🌍✨ Happy World Architecture Day 2025!

Today, we honor the visionaries who design for strength; architects and designers shaping a more resilient, inclusive, and inspiring world. From futuristic skylines to community-driven spaces, architecture continues to redefine how we live, connect, and adapt to change.

💡 Let’s celebrate those who build not just for today, but for generations to come.

🏛️ Here are 6 projects redefining strength through design:
1- Zayed National Museum by Foster + Partners | Abu Dhabi, UAE
2- Uzbekistan “Garden of Knowledge” Pavilion by ATELIER BRÜCKNER | Expo 2025 Osaka
3- The Stuttgart Main Station by ingenhoven associates / christoph ingenhoven architects | Germany
4- Shanghai Opera House by Snøhetta | China
5- Chinese Paper Umbrella by MAD | Venice, Italy
6- Kuwait University Administration Facilities by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Kuwait

Have you visited any of them?🌎

10/06/2025

NORR’s Ciel Dubai Marina Set to Become the World’s Tallest Hotel

Read more: https://parametric-architecture.com/ciel-dubai-marina-worlds-tallest-hotel/