The new Shanghai Grand Opera House was designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta in collaboration with the East China Architectural Design & Research Institute.

The building takes inspiration from an unfolding traditional chinese fan. Its roof spirals around the auditoriums, forming a sweeping public staircase that is open 24 hours a day and leads up to the rooftop, offering views of Shanghai’s skyline and the Huangpu River.

The fan evokes classical chinese culture through a sense of elegance, openness and movement. The spiral echoes the flow of the river, suggesting continuity between the city, the water and the opera house.

The venue aims to attract both opera lovers and younger audiences through a varied programme, bringing chinese and international opera together.

What do you think about it?

In my experience, compared to many other professions, architects are not as frequently depicted in literature, films, and television series, etc.

I know that at least in the movie The Lake House, the main character (Alex Wyler) is an architect.

Books that come to mind include Agatha Christie’s Endless Night, in which one of the characters is an architect (Rudolf Santonix), and Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case, which tells the story of Querry, an architect who has burned out.

It would also be interesting to hear your thoughts on the style in which the architect—or architecture as a field—was portrayed in the work.

Edit. This post has received a huge number of comments—thanks for all the suggestions! I’m also feeling a bit amused at myself, given that I claimed not to know many fictional architect characters, yet it turns out there are actually quite a lot of them. Well, I’ll have to start checking out the works you’ve mentioned!

The Eiffel Tower is certainly one of the most iconic structures, but many fairs including recent ones have had break through works. One of my recent favorites is Heatherwick's U.K. pavilion in Shanghai. Other examples? It is also surprising how little theorizing has been done around world fairs and their broader architectural impact.

Built in 1989 by architects: Fedir Smolskyi, Borys Zhezharyn, Vadym Zhezharyn.

One of the most beautiful metro stations in Ukraine. This place has colossal spiritual, cultural, and symbolic significance for Ukrainians. Depicted here are key Kyivan princes (Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and their sister Lybid, to Volodymyr the Great and Yaroslav the Wise). There is also a hidden mosaic inscription "Glory to Ukraine," which was laid by the architects above one of the entrances during construction as an act of patriotism.

Yesterday I posted some pictures of the new building by Peter Zumthor so today I wanted to show the old one…

Renzo Pianos best work in my opinion maybe also one of the best museums in terms of architecture in the world. The use of indirect lighting and the beautiful visible technical construction mixed with the local stones from Basel Switzerland surrounded by such a beautiful old park is just perfection.

More info in: https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/knowing-how-be-your-place-hotel-sigues-sebastian-arquitectos

In my opinion, the studio’s architecture has a unique atmosphere and truly beautiful details. Have been inspired by the studio’s work for years, even though I live in a very different climate

Images 1-6: Utsav House

Images 7-9: Carrimjee House

Images 10-12: Copper House

Images 13-18: Palmyra House

Image 19: House on Pali Hill

Image 20: Tara House

How many of you visited this place?

Contemporary design with Japanese / Mediterranean influence. Designed by Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné, and Dimitri Roussel.

My younger brother recently graduated college and is starting his career in architecture. His birthday is coming up, and I’d love to get him something genuinely useful.
What’s something you’ve purchased or received that’s made your professional life easier, improved your workflow, or ended up being way more valuable than you expected?
Open to anything — tools, gadgets, desk accessories, or even unconventional recommendations. Would love to hear what you swear by!

I dont know whether or not to study architecture or vdc. Im currently a sophemore (3rd semester of VDC) at BYU-Idaho, which has a really good VDC program, one of the only schools with a dedicated bachelors in vdc. But i also really want to do architecture, but BYUI doesnt have an architecture major/degree. I dont know if i should stay here and get a bachelors in vdc, or switch to a school that has architecture classes. I understand that to become a licenced architect it takes a long time. Companies do really like hiring from us, we have some of the biggest construction companys visiting us yearly for internships and hiring. I think what i want is to be an architect, but i still like vdc, so I dont know which one would be smarter. Any feedback would be apreciated, thank you.

I’m currently in year 11 and I plan on taking Fine Art, Mathematics and Physics in sixth form to follow architecture. However, I saw a TikTok about the career being very strict with timings. This caused me to actually search up architects opinions on the job online, and people were just straight up saying architecture is ass and isn’t worth the time or money put into it. So now I’m considering ditching it.

Architecture isn’t really my passion, I just searched up “high paying jobs that include art” when I was ten and was stuck to it ever since. Although I do love drawing buildings/complex backgrounds, I haven’t got into the math side of it ever since year 10 (cuz I didn’t choose 3-d tech as an option) however digital information is carrying me through the “client brief” side for stuff so I don’t really mind.

If I were to do architecture I’d probably aim for being a landscape architect but I’m a heavy procrastinator so either way, I don’t think this job is made for me. The problem is I’ve never actually went into massive detail about the cons, making me view architecture as my dream job. So my immaturity made me build my entire future on architecture, so I don’t really have a fall back plan. Should I go for engineering instead? Or just a completely different career? I don’t know anymore, I haven’t applied to schools yet cuz I’m scared of making my future miserable.

Some advice would really help!!( I’ve never used this subreddit or Reddit in general before so sorry if I’m breaking any rules! I read them and don’t think I’m breaking any, I have no idea what a mega thread is lmao, but just tell me if I am and I’ll delete this, I don’t mean any harm :) )

(I'll try to make it short)

I love architecture and that what I want to do.

However while I got my dream which was getting accepted in architecture school in 2nd year directly after an art degree,I feel like I am not good enough.

I stuggle with rhino,I sometimes struggle in studio and I always feel like I never get the right things,and I am not alone in that point,but it's all the time no matter what.

The few classmate that care look at me in disappointment,pity and some hate me because of that,I can't get up most morning and often arrive late,forget things and even when I think I do everything right it's not.

The only thing I want is to learn more about architecture,get better at rhino but I don't even get the time to do so because I don't even get the time.

I've been having anxiety attacks when I don't feel numb and suicidal ideation (which I will not act on however) and I hate it because I work so hard considering my state but it's still not enough and the few friends/people that tolerates me I've made hates me/ignore me because I don't do enough in the group project.

Plus it's a very tiny promotion of people so words come around quick,and I can't double my semester because my parents will want me to come back home and give up my studies all together.

I am genuinely starting to wonder if I am made for it,because sometimes you have dreams and things you want but you are not made for it.

(Ex : people that say they want to be F1 drivers at 25 but never did karting or whatenot,it's a dream but you are probably not made for it no matter how passionate you are,you might want the dream but the dream doesn't want you per say)

I don't want to go back to art,I want to do architecture,but the people are just too much ig...I don't know what to do,the admin and the friends/people etc. know about my state.

A few impressions of the new and first Peter Zumthor building in Basel his hometown. Zumthor definitely used all his best works as inspiration for this one (Kolumba Cologne and his Atelier in Haldenstein)

Shot on film [35mm / 50mm / Kodak Gold]

Thought you all might appreciate another work by Satish Gujral.

In the 1970s, he was commissioned by industrialist B. K. Modi to design a factory and guesthouse for Modipon, a nylon yarn manufacturer in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh. It became one of his earliest major architectural projects.

The factory features a striking series of repeated triangular concrete structures and distinctive U-shaped roof elements. I particularly like how the repetitive geometry creates an almost sculptural composition while remaining part of a functional industrial building.

I imagine it must have been quite a sight during the monsoons, with each U-shaped roof collecting rainwater and potentially channeling it down to the next level. I’d love to see what that looked like in practice.

When walking through the Courtyard of Honor at Palazzo Te in Mantua, visitors often assume the uneven frieze is structural damage or poor masonry. It isn’t: it was engineered to look like it is slipping on cue.

In the center of each bay, the middle triglyph in the Doric frieze drops several inches below the architrave, interrupting the horizontal band. To make the Mannerist joke complete, the rusticated stonework isn't stone at all. Mantua sits in the Po alluvial plain, where quarry stone was scarce; Giulio Romano built the entire palace out of local brick, coating it in thick plaster to mimic rough-hewn ashlar.

He arrived in Mantua in 1524 after training in Rome under Raphael. Federico II Gonzaga wanted a suburban villa for leisure and breeding horses, granting Giulio complete artistic license. Sebastiano Serlio, in his Fourth Book on the orders, argued that an architect could only bend the classical rules once he had mastered them completely. Palazzo Te is that argument made physical: an architect playing with classical grammar in front of a court educated enough to get the joke.

Does anyone have any advice for getting back into the architecture field after working in construction for a year? I’m still having a hard time pivoting back. Are firms even hiring?

Are there any films like this?

Silent or art house or whatever. And if so, please share, i want to watch and learn, but also what is it that you like about the film specifically?