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Top UK architecture firms
Building Design recently published their list of the world's top architecture firms. Read on to discover which UK firms they ranked highly. 1: Aedas In...
Famous architects: Antoni Gaudi
Gaudi was born in 1852 the son of a coppersmith. Read on to discover more about his life as an architect. The Spanish Catalan architect studied architecture...
Famous architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886. He worked in his family stone-carving business before joining the studio of Peter Behrens in 1908. Shortly...
Famous architects: Jorn Utzon
The Danish architect responsible for the Sydney Opera House found inspiration for the iconic building peeling an orange. The late Jorn Utzon’s bold...
Famous architects: Frank Lloyd Wright
This hugely influential architect was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Read on to discover more about his amazing life as an architect. He studied engineering...
Famous architects: Zaha Hadid
This visionary architect was born on October 31, 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq. Read on to discover more about her amazing life. Zaha Hadid completed a Maths...
Famous landmarks: The Gherkin
Officially named 30 St Mary Axe but usually known as "The Gherkin", this building is one of the most dramatic landmarks in London… The road on which...
Famous landmarks: Cleopatra's Needle
If you ever take a walk along the Thames Embankment you will come across a tall, narrow, four-sided, tapering pillar which ends in a pyramidal top...
Famous landmarks: Marble Arch
Standing rather unceremoniously on a traffic island in one of the busiest (and most polluted) parts of London is a rather grand white building known as...
Ancient architecture: The Great Wall of China
One of the history’s most impressive feats of architecture, The Great Wall stretches more than 6,400 km across China. Why was it built? The wall was...
Ancient architecture: Roman bridges
It wasn’t just roads – the Romans were way ahead of their time with other engineering feats too. Find out how building bridges helped them to forge...
Ancient architecture: The Basilica cistern
Who commissioned this amazing feat of engineering? And how old is it? Oh, and why is it featured in a James Bond film? In the middle of the sixteenth...
Top 5 architect films
Enjoy a well earned break and take your pick from our list of the top five films featuring architects. 1: The Fountainhead (1949) Howard Roark is an architecture...
The Ten Best English Buildings of the 21st Century
By 2100, English buildings might look very different – but in the mean time, find out a little more about Blueprint Magazine’s best buildings of the...
What is vernacular architecture?
Architecture isn’t only done by professional architects. Find out how buildings created by ordinary people have influenced the world of architecture...
