Architect of The Day

The architect who made his name by building one of the London's most famous landmarks Sir John Wolfe Barry John Wolfe-Barry, the youngest son of architect Sir Charles Barry, added ‘Wolfe’ to his inherited name in 1898. He was educated at Glenalmond and King’s College London, and was a pupil of civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw. Horace Jones was appointed architect, and knighted, but died in 1886. Wolfe-Barry was well-established with experience of building bridges across Thames, railways and docks. He then took control of Tower Bridge project and that’s what cemented Wolfe-Barry’s name in to history. Tower Bridge, London C onstruction was started in 1886 and it took 8 years to finish this bascule and suspension bridge. Five companies and 432 workers worked on it. It has 70,000 tons of concrete in foundations and some 10,000 tons of steel. His other projects include: Cannon Street Railway Bridge (aka the Alexandra Bridge) (1866), Blackfriars Railway Bridge (...

Polish architect, Olympic fencer and artist Wojciech Zabłocki Zabłocki is the designer of several sports buildings including The Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw and a sports complex in Konin. He also co-designed the Silesian Insurgents Monument in Katowice in 1967.He is a founding member of the Art of the Olympians.    Silesian Insurgents Monument Architect Kenzō Tange,the winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture, is credited as as architect for this 1 billion project, but he resigned from the project before the construction of the palace started. Despite the flaws of this enormous palace it is an impressive work of architecture. Presidential Palace is the residence for the President of Syria, located in Damascus, in the West of the city. Total palace premise covers 510,000 square meters and the main building – 31,5000 square meters...

One of most prolific and skilled architects in the Gilded Age America George Oakley Totten Jr.     He had many private clients who were interested in constructing large, elegant mansions in the styles he was designing on 16th Street (Meridian Hill). He also designed many private city and country dwellings in Washington, including a group of houses in the 2600 block of 16th Street, N.W., representing several styles of architecture. He also designed homes in Vermont and New Jersey. He was architect for a number of government buildings including the post office at Waterbury, Connecticut and the $3 million post office and federal court building at Newark, New Jersey, that opened in 1934. George Oakley Totten Jr. house

American dystophian architect John Portman The visionary neofuturistic architect who developed dytophian architecture we have seen in Hollywood’s most popular movies. Portman's buildings has his signature mix of modernism and brutalism, highlighted by massive atriums and long, glassy elevators and a feeling of future. Portman's buildings has appeared in dozens of movies over the last decades: Interstellar (2014), The Hunger Games, Divergent (2014), Mission Impossible III  (2006), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).