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
Julio González i Pellicer (21 September 1876 – 27 March 1942), born in Barcelona, was a Spanish sculptor who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium
Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge,
Russian-born engineer Vladimir Bodiansky (1894–1966) was an important, though relatively unknown, figure in French architectural and engineering history who
Peace Bridge is a bridge with a helix structure composed of two tangential radii that create a unique architectural space. The bridge accommodates people