St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's Powell Hall / Snøhetta

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Beginning in 2019, Snøhetta, in collaboration with Christener Architects, Schuler Shook, BSI Constructors, and Kirkegaard, led the expansion and modernization of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's historic performance space, Powell Hall. To ring in the hall's centennial in 2025, the organization embarked on an ambitious 64,000-square-foot expansion with Snøhetta as design architect and landscape architect. The project will allow the concert hall to be more fully accessible and open to the community, creating a facility that supports and nurtures the creative process from idea to performance.

Zaha Hadid Architects Designs Mixed-Use Alta Bank Tower in New Belgrade, Serbia

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Zaha Hadid Architects, in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners, have won an international competition to design a new tower for Alta Bank in New Belgrade, Serbia. Conceived as a mixed-use development, the project integrates the bank's new headquarters with residential units, rental office spaces, and retail and dining areas within a public plaza. The design aims to provide a future-oriented base of operations that reflects evolving patterns of work and urban life, continuing the collaboration between the two firms following their winning proposal for the new Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade in 2025.

Ancient Wisdom Meets Urban Reality: Vastu’s Role in Contemporary Indian Cities

India carries an ancient lineage of tradition that has long shaped the very conception and crafting of its cities. Vastu Shastra is one such tradition, more a science than a belief, intimately woven into the principles of architectural design. The practice remains widespread and highly regarded, with 93% of homes designed to align with Vastu principles. As India urbanizes at an unprecedented pace, projected to add 416 million city dwellers by 2050, Vastu Shastra continues to influence billions of real estate decisions amid the trials of modern city living. How might an 8,000-year-old spatial science evolve to guide the design of cities housing millions?

Temporary Commercial Pavilion - Visitor Center / FP/ARQS.

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This is a commercial building of a temporary nature that marks the initial milestone of a large-scale real estate development in a suburban private neighborhood context. More than just a physical space, the project aims to become an environment of experiences, where visitors establish an intangible bond with the product that the development will offer.

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