Immersive Spaces: When Architecture Turns Into Experience

Courtesy of ASB GlassFloor In the Water Lilies rooms at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, Claude Monet conceived a 360-degree gallery where visitors are enveloped by continuous landscapes, dissolving the boundaries between painting and environment. There, he sought not merely to represent nature through his distinctive style, but to construct an atmosphere, a perceptual … Read more

The Corporate City: Three Models of Company Town Design

V-Plaza Urban Development / 3deluxe architecture. Image © Norbert Tukaj For over a century and a half, corporations have periodically taken on the role of city builders. Neighborhoods or even entire settlements that exist at the intersection of commerce and civic life, “company towns” are recurring urban types. The corporate city has long reshaped itself … Read more