UNESCO calls for COVID-19 vaccines to be considered a global public good
UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) have called for a change…
Author: Rolf Maass
Highest-ever funding to UN rural development agency IFAD to tackle hunger and poverty for the world’s poorest
US$3.8 billion, that’s how much the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will now be able to invest in the world’s rural…
Bilbao and Painting
– At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Bilbao is a town that expands in every sense of…
Future cities: new challenges need to reimagine the look of urban landscapes
Nick Dunn, Lancaster University and Paul Cureton, Lancaster University Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in…
Moynihan Train Hall, a monumental citizen project that is restoring the size of train travel in New York Opened since Friday 1th January 2021
Designed by SOM, the project completely reimagines the travel experience at the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere, and evokes the architectural…
Reinterpretation of a 100+ year zoning law in the heart of Harlem
The Smile, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, is a mixed-use residential development introducing affordable housing units alongside market rate rentals, set within the…
Brutalism: how to love a concrete beast
No other architectural style elicits emotional reactions like Brutalism. Think monolithic concrete buildings composed of blunt rectangular forms, devoid of colour, decoration or…
Election ambiguity may be beneficial in the short term, but in the long term it’s corrosive
As the results of the US election began to arrive, political junkies tried their best to make sense of what was happening. But…
Reading Architecture: Architectural Guide Sub-Saharan Africa A book review with Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai
What does the built environment of Africa look like beyond slum huts or safari lodges? What characterizes the building activity on the continent…