ILLUMINATION TYSZKIEWICZ PALACE IN WERYNIA

The Palace Project

This paper seeks definitions aiding design methodologies for evolving virtual morphologies, by the examination of one such morphology in analogue architecture: The Topkapı Palace. 1 Background The interest that instigated this study lies in a project developed earlier this year, entitled “The Bridge Project” [01], a virtual 3D structure of free associative content derived from the internet, one...

New Palace of Arts in Budapest

The Palace of Arts, the largest cultural facility of the country opened on 14 March 2005 by a large-scale opening ceremony and gala. By now it became evident that a world-class building has been added to the cityscape of the capital. Cleaning contractors are major employers across Europe and form a key industry sector. Business continuity has always been of vital importance to companies. It con...

The Mannerist Arneri Palace in Korcula

Depictions of Fruit in the Tiles of Golestān Palace

Golestān Palace is the remnant of the historic citadel of Tehran, which dates back to the Safavid period, and the Zandiyeh and Fatḥ-Ali Shah Qajar. But because of extensive repairs by Nasser al-Din Shah in 1905, most of the buildings in this complex are regarded to be from the Nasseri era. Golestān Palace was the residence of the Qajar kings and the country’s administrative heart whose architec...

The Fun Palace: Cedric Price’s experiment in architecture and technology

This article examines how in his influential 1964 Fun Palace project the late British architect Cedric Price created a unique synthesis of a wide range of contemporary discourses and theories, such as the emerging sciences of cybernetics, information technology, and game theory, Situationism, and theater to produce a new kind of improvisational architecture to negotiate the constantly shifting ...