New York-based studio Diana Kellogg Architects looked to symbols of femininity for its design of a school in India made from local sandstone.
The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School was built in the Thar Desert in the north of India to educate and teach over 400 girls between the ages of five and 16.
The studio created a fort-like structure based on nearby sand-dunes that would blend into and grow out of the landscape. Project of the year
Readers are impressed. Sublime project, said Band. Gorgeous photography by Vinay Panjwani.
Zealous Advocate agreed: This is the greatest architecture I ve seen on here in a long time.
Inuce illuminates Chinese church with giant blue stained-glass window
Architecture studio Inuce has created a church wrapped in 100,000 panes of stained glass that aims to combine Christian tradition and Chinese local authenticity in Luoyuan, China.
Built in the coastal city of Luoyuan in eastern China, the church was created to serve the area s Christian community and be a refuge from the region s rapid development.
Inuce designed the church in the Chinese city of Luoyuan Decades of industrial development and accelerated urban growth have scarred Luoyuan s mountain slopes with quarries, sullied idyllic farmlands with factories, and pushed vast residential districts deeper and deeper into its hinterland, explained Inuce principal Dirk U Moench.