Modernism
The workshop wing was built to look transparent, and the effect depends on a detail most visitors never notice.
Design desk · Issue 10
A stained glass window is a lighting design disguised as a painting
The glass decides what the stone interior looks like at every hour, and the makers planned for all of them.
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Gardens
The lines are redone every morning, and the pattern is a record of the person who made it.
Infrastructure
Menai's chains were calculated by hand, and the margin they left is still visible in the deck.
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Photo essay
Built to be looked at twice
Architecture photographs usually flatter a building. These were chosen because they show how the thing actually works: where the light comes from, what holds the weight, and which detail somebody argued about.
Interior of the Shah Mosque, Qom, Iran.
Editor's note
“Design writing tends to describe intention. We are more interested in what the building does after everyone who designed it has gone home.”
Claire Dubois · Editor, Craft
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