The towers that comprise Zaha Hadid's latest project may look precarious, but they are certainly not faulty: “They change shape and geometry as you move up,” explains project director Michele Pasca di Magliano.
Beyond its demure exterior, which is clad in the same gray stone that paves the adjacent square, the Markthal Rotterdam, like a ripe fruit sliced open, reveals its rich offerings inside.
During a family vacation to Syria in 2009, architectural photographer Peter Aaron captured many of the country's landmarks—historic mosques, Roman ruins, ancient citadels.
After winning a competition to revitalize Pedras Salgadas Park, a 1920s-era hot springs resort in northern Portugal, architect Tiago Rebelo de Andrade and his father, Luis, decided to create a grown-up take on a typical father-son structure: the tree house.