While the Chicago Architecture Foundation may be best known for their popular riverboat cruises, their scale model of Chicago’s downtown is something that architecture buffs absolutely cannot miss out ...

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

(Case) H: 14.5" W: 21.75" L: 27.75" (Model) H: 10.25" W: 20.25" L: 26" ...

The first museum in Japan devoted entirely to architectural models opened recently, aimed at archiving and preserving the miniature prototypes of Japanese architects’ structures now scattered around ...

“People from outside the world of architecture and design would come through the studio and gush over our early city model prototypes,” says Ngo, who notes that architects regularly make such models ...

Giancarlo Valle uses small-scale maquettes to bring big ideas into the world. At the back of American designer Giancarlo Valle’s New York studio, there’s a room that looks as though it could be a ...

Many of these icons of the constructivist movement--which influenced Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas--used to only exist in sketches or photographs. Exhibition Explores How Models Made People Gaga For ...

Art Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale ...

A miniature architectural model of the grand theater of Prince Kung's Palace Museum is on display at the exhibition in Beijing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY In the hushed halls of Prince Kung's Palace ...

Chicago is known around the world for its tall skyscrapers, but some of Chicago’s greatest architecture is often found throughout the city’s neighborhoods. Chicago neighborhood streets have a unique ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warehouse TERRADA (Shinagawa, Tokyo; CEO Yoshihisa Nakano) is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017, we opened the Architecture Model Workshop inside our ...