Inauguration of La Canopée on April 6, 2016. The renovation project of the Forum des Halles in Paris, designed by the architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti, is magnified by…
On April 5, 1998, the ribbon was cut to open the world’s longest suspension bridge, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan. It has a world record main span of 1,991
Pierre Francis Koenig (October 17, 1925 – April 4, 2004) was an American architect and a Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California.
Fazlur Rahman Khan (3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the “father of tubular designs”…
Livio Vacchini (February 27, 1933 – April 2, 2007) was a Swiss architect. From 1953 to 1958 he studied architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The works…
Official opening of Victor Horta’s Volkshuis on April 1, 1899. On Place Emile Vandervelde in Brussels, it is a fruitless search for the Volkshuis, an Art Nouveau cathedral built by…
Eiffel’s tower was greeted with skepticism from critics who argued that it would be structurally unsound, and indignation from others who thought it would be
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is a bridge in Dallas, Texas, that spans the Trinity River. The cable-stayed bridge supports