Archinect - Features

In Focus: Peter Stewart and His Exploration Into the Architecturally Unreal

2019-05-26T11:38:00-04:00

In Focus is Archinect's recurring series dedicated to profiling the photographers who help capture architecture and who make the work of architects look that much better. In this series, we ask: What is their relationship to architecture? How do they work? What kind of equipment do they use? What are their goals when capturing buildings?

For this installment, Archinect chats with Australian architectural photographer Peter Stewart. Through extensive travel, Stewart has spent much time exploring South East Asia and experiencing its dense urban environments. After immersing himself within each culture and learning about the environments around him, Stewart has used his creative eye as a tool to capture photographs that follow themes of mass scale and repetition. Using a technical approach to photographing buildings, Stewart aims to blend the visual perspective with geometry and color to see the world through "the spaces between." An exploration into the "unreal" Stewart provides a mes...

Architecture in a Country of Stage Sets: Our Interview with Oliver Wainwright on Inside North Korea

2018-12-21T11:24:00-05:00

Now available at Archinect Outpost, Inside North Korea is the ambitious new book from British journalist Oliver Wainwright. I spoke to Wainwright about the making of the book and how he extended his journalistic talents to become its principal photographer. Though North Korea had long been a subject of interest to Wainwright, he had the chance in our interview to expand on how similar its architectural techniques are to those more familiar in Western practice.

Jason Pomeroy, the "City Time Traveller"

2014-02-18T18:41:00-05:00

City Time Traveller, a new travel show that spotlights architectural wonders throughout Asia, debuted earlier this month on Channel NewsAsia. Mixing city history and architectural heritage, the show is hosted by Jason Pomeroy, an architect, academic and urban planner based in Singapore. As an architect concerned primarily with ecological sustainability, Pomeroy focuses the show on places that have weathered time and conflict to persist and thrive today. Archinect spoke with Jason Pomeroy when the show just began airing, touching on his demanding filming schedule and work as an “eco-architect”.

Student Works: Singapore University of Technology and Design Library Pavilion

2013-06-13T20:30:00-04:00

The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) library pavilion is located on a sloping lawn on the temporary Dover Campus.

Accommodating three mature trees and forming a noise barrier toward the Ayer Raja Expressway in the north, the gridshell structure of the pavilion harnesses the site constraints and activates an outdoor space behind the existing library building.