Government buildings are an important part of a people’s cultural and political personality. The design of your government buildings can have varied effects on the people in the surrounding area. Government buildings can bring them together and bind them. It can also tell visitors a visual story of what makes a people who they are. With the right kind of architectural expression, a government building can be brought to life. It doesn’t have to be a soulless and purely functional concrete m...

In a time and industry where women’s rights were not even considered as being equal to men’s, Helen Sellers Davis managed to breakthrough and create a pioneering career in architecture.

With the economy starting to see a bounce and an upswing once more, commercial buildings are on the rise again. The government is showing a healthy level of interest in the infrastructure required to incentivize business expansion and commercial buildings are cropping up at an increasing rate.

Government buildings, as the name suggests, are used for administration purposes. Town halls, Parliament buildings, Federal buildings, central banks, and centers offering public services such as registration all fall into this category. The most important word when it comes to this class of building is character. A government building is necessarily a reflection of the character of the government it represents....

A study released in 2012 revealed that well-designed and built classrooms can improve the academic performance of school children by a staggering 25%. The study, carried out in the UK by architecture firm Nightingale Associates and the University of Salford, added some credence to a belief many have held for a long time.