Nouvelles

Zaha Hadid: “If there are 360 degrees, why stick to one?”

Robust concrete that seemed to float like a feather in the air. The Iraqi-British architect never settled for any one angle — least of all ninety degrees. One of the women who inspire us.

Leandro Erlich: “Perception is bound up with the way we acquire knowledge”

A swimming pool you can walk under without getting wet. An obelisk that loses its tip. The Argentine conceptual artist takes what exists apart so we have to think it through again — and in jeweller...

Better in silence: eight libraries and museums where the quiet is the architecture

A library of 1.2 million books in Tianjin, a bookshop in Yangzhou with black mirror floors, a museum in Curitiba shaped like an eye. Eight buildings where silence is not an absence but the material...