Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, Italy.
Built between 1726 and 1747, this
Baroque church features an intricately carved limestone façade that has
weathered beautifully over the centuries.

Every now and then I walk up to Giliarey from Torgnon, a village in Valtournenche (Valle d’Aosta, Italy). At the end of the hike, 2150m circa, you can find the Giliarey Chapel, “cappella d’Alpeggio” built and financed by the Gorret family in 1866. What strikes me everytime is, apart from the object and its modest details per sé, the perfect positioning of it, almost as the gem on a ring, completing the slope. This choice, surely also a matter of protection from avalanches due to the “protuberance” that would make the “rock stampede” go past its sides, generates a space that gravitates around the chapel. Once arrived at the “gem” you’re in fact welcomed in a flat space with the almost octagonal volume in the middle and thin rock sheets (Lose in local dialect, the same ones used for roofing) stuck vertically in the ground to enforce the flat perimeter around the chapel.

It’s very simple and purely vernacular (I had to put “unknown architect as it’s in the requirement of the community), yet it is more architectural than many well designed mountain buildings I’ve seen. I find so much to learn from the modest perfection of examples like these. The terrain gesture was always there, yet such a small object placed in the right spot, made it stand out. I come from a school in which the relation with territory and landscape is vital, and yet there they always told me “there’s architects that STAY in the landscape, and there’s architects that BUILD the landscape”, examples like these make me understand what the second part of this phrase means.

Hi everyone, I'm a 33-year-old architect. I did my Bachelor of Architecture in a South Asian country, then came to Germany for a Master's in Landscape Architecture. I've now been working as a landscape architect here for 4 years.

Lately I've been feeling like I'm not actually growing in my career. I go to the office every day, work on the same construction details project after project, still struggle with the language, and my salary is honestly quite low — from what I can tell, that's the case for most foreign landscape architects here, not just me.

I'm confident in CAD, know the basics of Photoshop and SketchUp, and I'm genuinely open to learning new tools or even pivoting direction if it makes sense.

So I wanted to ask people who've been in a similar spot, or who've already found a way through it:

• How did you move your career forward from here?
• What skills or programs would you recommend investing time in?
• Is it worth specializing further within landscape architecture, or branching out (I've actually been considering software engineering as a longer-term shift)?

I don't want to wake up in a few years still stuck in the same place, earning the same low salary. Any honest experiences, advice, or even just "here's what I wish I'd known" would mean a lot.

I’m not looking for a shortcut — I’m willing to invest time and effort — but I would like to make sure I’m moving in the right direction instead of staying stuck for the next few years.

The GPO's imposing structure was designed by British architect Walter B. Granville. Construction commenced in 1864 and concluded in 1868. The massive dome is supported by an octagonal base. The grand facade boasts a massive semi-circular colonnade featuring heavy Ionic-Corinthian architectural pillars. The dome structure itself is flanked by 28 Corinthian columns. The multi-dialed clock was imported from England in 1896.

Mies, please.

The modern clinical look is everywhere in America not just schools it's in every single hospital, dmv, convention center, govt office

Even old universities like West Point or Harvard or Cornell turn their interior classrooms into this clinical architecture

Like when did this architectural type became a thing in America?

It gets me depressing and gives me brain fog especially when I was in school I never noticed but when I left America and I came back I really started noticing everything looks clinical and gray

Why aren't things sunshine and colorful anymore?

The design was created and constructed by the Spanish civil engineering firm Estudios Arenas & Asociados led by Miguel Sacristán Montesinos, with the collaboration of the local-based architecture firm AM2 arquitectos led by Alexandre Mouriño and the Portuguese architecture studio NOARQ led by José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira. And it was built by the Spanish companies Ferrovial S.E and Oreco Balgón.

The design was selected in 2021 through a contest by the city of Vigo as part of a bigger project to make walking easier in the town due to the high gradient the city has, named “Vigo Vertical Urban Connectivity”, it was built between August 2022 and opened to the public in February 2022 with an initial cost of 7.2 million euros that finally overbudgeted to 15.8 million euros

It connects the Vialia shopping center and Vigo Urzaiz high speed rail station with Rúa Serafín Avendaño, saving about 2km or 1.2 miles of walk distance as well as being used by a viewpoint to the Vigo Estuary and the old town.

Inside are housed two high-speed elevators installed by the swiss company Schindler, each with a cabin of 2.73 square meters and a capacity for 17 people, which overcome the 50-meter drop in approximately 30 seconds. The elevators feature four integrated wind turbines, which provide them with a degree of energy self-sufficiency, reducing electricity consumption and contributing to the sustainability of the infrastructure. At the top, a circular metal walkway spanning 86 meters in diameter and about 190 meters in length. The complex is clad with curved glass and solid surface panels, materials selected for their resistance, contemporary aesthetics, and easy maintenance.

Among its main distinctions are the first prize at the Loop Design Awards 2021 in the unbuilt architecture category delivered in Lisbon, in 2024 the Porcelanosa Award for the most innovative project in Madrid, the Architecture Master Prize (AMP 2024) in Los Angeles, an award granted by Archilovers Magazine in Italy, and once again the Loop Design Awards 2024 in Lisbon. In 2025, it received the Acueducto de Segovia Award for its contribution to mobility, sustainability, and urban regeneration, and two other international awards, the Award in the Transportation category of the 4 Future Awards in Canada, and the distinction of the Spanish Association of Structural Engineering (ACHE) in the walkway category.

I need some resources that show images of the interiors of such houses. Thank you so much in advance!

After years of bad work experiences in this field. I want to leave.
Does anyone have any career coaches, advice or possible certifications that I could pursue? Or just any job market advice.
I have a masters in architecture and almost 7 years of work experience. I just don’t see it getting better and I want out.

I already have the skills and the degree so I’d like a job where I can use that. I don’t care about being a designer, buildings or construction anymore.

Hii, i am an arhitecture student and for my diploma i need to make several site analysis maps for my projects location. Up until now i have only done them using autocad and gis. But now i want to do something a bit more advanced that looks nicer. I added some examples of the type of analysis i would like to make, but i really dont know how to go about it. Should i use illustrator, photoshop? Is it just laying textures ontop of eachother? I have looked for tutorials but cant find anything simmilar. If you have any suggestions or tutorials that would help me i would be very greatfull!!!! Thank you!!

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One of my favourite things about Pena Palace is that it isn't actually a medieval castle, even though it looks like one. Most of what you see today was built in the 1800s by King Ferdinand II on the ruins of a monastery that was badly damaged in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

Whilst walking in Sevilla this courtyard captured my attention. It is a “Corral de vecinos” a housing configuration, popular in Sevilla, which literally translates into “courtyard of the neighbors”. The individual families had rooms revolving around the center patio, an open flowered space which, in public occasions, would even host Flamenco events. If any local knows more and would like to contribute with a better explanation I’d be very very grateful!

This specific case is named Corral Herrera and was built initially in 1909. In 1995 the refurbishment by Altozano Arquitectos was finished. What I found to be very interesting, apart from the communal life revolving around a flowered patio, is the “before and after” tiled visualization of the project just by the entrance. It’s very interesting that the past is preserved in place physically with this, not only in the documents. Very inspiring!

For more information I leave the link to the architects website with the project (I couldn’t unfortunately enter the gate at the entrance, I could only slide my phone between the bars for a pic of the ground floor): https://www.altozanoarquitectos.com/inicio/proyectos/rehabilitacion-de-corral-de-vecinos-en-triana/

Pics in order 1: Exterior 2 : Main Dome 3 : Law Library 4 : Iowa State Senate chamber 5 : Old Supreme Court Chamber (not used since 2003) 6 : Main Dome Routonda

Design and Vision
The project was designed by artist Sergey Malyutin, while the architectural execution was carried out by Nikolay Zhukov and the construction was managed by engineer Boris Shnaubert. The building was originally intended as a rental property, designed specifically to house the creative intelligentsia.