On Aug. 21, 1959, President Eisenhower signed the official proclamation admitting Hawaii as the 50th state. To celebrate, we were eating pineapple upside down cake, downing drinks with pink umbrellas ...

“Imagine swimming the backstroke with a view of a church vault and stained-glass windows,” says MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas. Well, soon you’ll be able to. Dutch architecture studios MVRDV and ...

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...

In a quiet, shady street in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, Koen Olthuis and the design team at Waterstudio are changing the world. From this deceptively nondescript headquarters, Waterstudio is designing ...

“After you walk on water, what can you be afraid of?” said Professor Jaime Canaves. Since 1989, architecture students in Canaves' methods and materials course gather around the lake behind the Green ...

For more than three decades, FIU's iconic Walk on Water event has brought together the Panther community to cheer for students as they go up against the ultimate challenge: To walk across the lake ...

The Chicago Architecture Foundation Center’s river cruise on the First Lady kicked off its 29th season on April 1. The tour has won numerous accolades and is viewed by many as a “must-do” activity ...

School of Architecture faculty member Poyao Shih‘s design proposal ” Floating Field” has been shortlisted for the Shaping Water Competition, alongside fifteen other designs. Organized by Dezeen in ...

Even as a child, the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa was very aware of the fundamental element that would describe and underpin his work many years later: water. When he played and ran around the maze ...