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Designing the Public Market: Architecture for Gathering, Trading, and Belonging

Hana Abdel — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +0000

The making of a place is not a difficult thing in principle; it is enough for people to come together in a regular set location for a purpose or activity, and a space becomes. This does not disregard the fact that a physical element needs to accompany this gathering for a space to become sheltering, accommodating, and alluring. This idea of the space that emerges from intent can most definitely be seen in one of the most ancient of functions, which is food or produce markets.

The Whole Building’s a Stage in This Conceptual Cirque du Soleil Theatre Design

Sabrina Santos — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 08:00:00 +0000

A team of students from Austrian-based Studio Hani Rashid at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna have unveiled their conceptual design for a Cirque du Soleil Performance Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Peripeteia: Exploring Space Colonization through Architecture

Evan Rawn — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Long after earth’s first journey to the moon, the idea of space colonization has continued to fascinate us. It is a subject repeated in countless science fiction works and even architectural proposals. For designers, this new frontier is seen as a tantalizing subject for exploration and will likely generate entirely new typologies for inhabitation. These fascinations formed the basis for Luis Daniel Pozo’s Diploma Project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, from which he developed possible prototypes for “the city above the skies.”