When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sandwiched between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the small, oil-rich emirate of Kuwait is now one of the ...

There’s no denying its elegant beauty, but the importance of a designer’s dress pattern seems inconsequential among the examples of how the art of origami has played a role in engineering, ...

Crawling back in time to take a leap into Japanese culture, we find the real meaning of ORIGAMI where ORI means folding and GAMI means paper. After the invention of paper, paper folding emerged as ...

Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...

Origami, the traditional Japanese art of folding paper, might seem like little more than a childhood pastime. But artists Miri Golan and Paul Jackson have spent years using it to… Origami, the ...

DETAIL ARCHITECTURE GmbH is a leading international platform for design and construction solutions in architecture. Founded in 1961, DETAIL provides daily, usable information and inspiration to all of ...

With their bright, multicolored slides and tubes, most water parks stick out like unsightly sore thumbs in the landscape—but that’s not the case for the site-sensitive Water Park Aqualagon in Villages ...

[Editor's note: On Feb. 10 The Tyee published an opinion piece by UBC professor of landscape architecture Patrick Condon critical of the "Origami Tower" proposed to abut the east façade of Vancouver's ...

As cities grow more populated and housing plot availability continues to diminish, architects are doing their part to make the most of occupied space. One such firm is Brazilian duo AR Architects, ...