Architecture Topics
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The Sad Death of the Starchitect
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, a handful of architects shaped cities, skylines, and the public imagination. They were ambitious, controversial, sometimes flawed, and of...
Unité d’Habitation Marseille - Le Corbusier’s Vision for a New Way of Living
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the story behind the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le Corbusier’s groundbreaking experiment in collective living. This episode looks a...
Burj Al Arab – The Building that Put Dubai on the World Map
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore how the Burj Al Arab transformed Dubai from a coastal trading hub into a global destination. From Tom Wright’s first ske...
Flatiron Building - The Shape of a New York Icon
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the turn of the 20th century, New York was still a low-rise city. The Empire State and Chrysler Buildings were decades away, and the idea of a skys...
Berlin Wall - A Line That Shaped the World
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t a palace, a museum, or a tower. It wasn't even a "place". It was just a wall.Yet for almost three decades, it held an entire...
California Academy of Sciences - The Story of a Living Building
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the 1989 earthquake left the California Academy of Sciences in ruins, San Francisco faced a choice: rebuild what was lost, or imagine something ...
The Pantheon - The Dome That Defied Time
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly two thousand years old, yet still standing in perfect balance. The Pantheon remains one of the greatest achievements in architectural history.I...
Marina City - A Vertical Dream on the Chicago River
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Architecture Topics, we travel to Chicago, the birthplace of the modern skyscraper, to explore Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg’s b...
The Gateway Arch - When Geometry Became Poetry
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rising 192 meters above the Mississippi River, the Gateway Arch is one of the most striking monuments in the United States. A stainless-steel curve th...
HSBC Main Building – Designing the Most Expensive Building of the 80s
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1980s, Hong Kong’s HSBC Main Building became the most expensive building ever constructed. Designed by Norman Foster, it turned the sky...
Eiffel Tower - The Rise of an Iron Revolution
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step into the story of the Eiffel Tower, the iron revolution that reshaped Paris and captured the world’s imagination. Built for the 1889 World’s ...
One World Trade Center - From Freedom Tower to Reality
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States and one of the most debated skyscrapers ever built. Initially envisioned as the “...
Rebuilding Ground Zero - A Skyline shaped by Politics, Power, and Memory
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebuilding Ground Zero was never just about architecture. It was a battle over politics, power, memory, and profit. This episode traces the long strug...
9/11 - How and Why the Towers Fell
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step into the morning of September 11th, 2001, as the Twin Towers of New York faced the unthinkable. This episode recounts the confusion of that day a...
Twin Towers - The Rise of New York's Giants
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the story of how the Twin Towers came to dominate New York’s skyline. From the decline of Lower Manhattan in the 1950s, to the powerful rol...
Oslo Opera House - Where Architecture Becomes Landscape
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Oslo Opera House is one of the most striking cultural buildings of the 21st century, a vast white roof that rises from the fjord and invites every...
London Eye - An Unlikely Turn of Events
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was never meant to be forever. The London Eye, once called the Millennium Wheel, was pitched as a five-year celebration for the year 2000. With no ...
Rome Colosseum – The Architecture of Power, Propaganda and Spectacle
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the story of the Rome Colosseum, the world’s most iconic amphitheater. From its origins under Emperor Vespasian to its role in hosting gladi...
Cathedral of BrasÃlia – Where Modernism Meets Faith
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Cathedral of BrasÃlia is one of the most daring religious buildings of the 20th century. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1970, it bro...
Nakagin Capsule Tower – Living in a Future That Never Arrived
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the heart of 1970s Tokyo, a building appeared that looked like it had landed from another planet. A stack of steel capsules, each with a round wind...
Sagrada Familia – Barcelona’s Most Iconic Work in Progress
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Sagrada Familia is more than just a church. It is Barcelona’s most famous landmark, Antoni GaudÃ’s unfinished masterpiece, and one of the mos...
Space Needle - Seattle’s Window to the 21st Century
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the story behind Seattle’s most iconic landmark, the Space Needle. Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, this futuristic tower captured the im...
CCTV Headquarters – A Loop through Power, Media, and Form
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the story behind the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, one of the most radical buildings of the 21st century. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, th...
30 St Mary Axe – Rethinking the Modern Skyscraper
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we head to the heart of London to uncover the story behind 30 St Mary Axe, the skyscraper better known as The Gherkin.From the tragedy...
Santa Maria del Fiore - The Unbuildable Dome
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how Florence’s most iconic cathedral became the birthplace of Renaissance architecture, and how Filippo Brunelleschi solved a 45-meter-wide...
Parthenon – The Illusion of Perfection
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the secrets behind one of the most iconic buildings in history. This episode explores the Parthenon in Athens.Not just as a temple to the god...
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum – The Birth of the Bilbao Effect
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum is more than an architectural icon and a turning point in the history of cities. In this episode, we explore how a daring...
Empire State Building - The Making of an American Legend
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step into 1930s New York and discover the incredible story behind the Empire State Building, a skyscraper born from rivalry, built during the Great De...
Neue Nationalgalerie - Mies van der Rohe’s Final Masterpiece
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step into 1960s Berlin with me as we uncover the story of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s final masterpiece. Designed during th...
Taj Mahal – A Love Story Told in Architecture
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the story behind one of the most iconic buildings in the world: the Taj Mahal. More than a monument, this 17th-century masterpiece is a symbo...
Seattle Public Library – A Machine for Learning in the Digital Age
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how Seattle built one of the most radical libraries of the 21st century. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, the Seattle Central Library redefi...
Golden Gate Bridge - The story behind the most iconic bridge ever built
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Architecture Topics we'll explore the full story behind the Golden Gate Bridge. From the geographic and economic factors that m...
Centre Pompidou Paris - The "inside-out" museum
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the story behind the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the most radical and controversial buildings in modern architecture. Designed by Renzo P...
La Pedrera - The Gaudà Masterpiece Barcelona Once Mocked
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Casa Milà , also known as La Pedrera, is one of the most iconic buildings in Barcelona and a landmark of Antoni GaudÃ's architecture. Discover how th...
NYC Guggenheim Museum – The Building That Refused to Fit In
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The NYC Guggenheim Museum is a building that broke every rule of museum design, defied the city's building codes. It became Frank Lloyd Wright’s fin...
Sydney Opera House - Building the Impossible
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world, but few know the dramatic story behind its creation. In this episode, w...
Welcome to Architecture Topics! Architecture History—One Story at a Time
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Architecture Topics, the podcast where we delve into the stories, ideas, and designs that shape the world around us.My name is Liam Caron, ...