https://theahmag.com/en/ AH Magazine is a visual archive of art, space and structure: architecture, interiors, art, photography, cinema and archival finds. en https://theahmag.com/en/o/1407/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1407/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT According to a medieval legend, the ashes of Julius Caesar lay in the bronze ball at the top of the Vatican obelisk. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1401/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1401/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Raimund Abraham built almost nothing. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1398/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1398/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Photographs from Maria Lax's book Some Kind of Heavenly Fire, published by Setanta in 2020. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1394/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1394/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Five houses stand at the tail end of San Roque Lake, on a slope where bare granite comes out of the ground. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1392/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1392/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Zagreb, Croatia https://theahmag.com/en/o/1374/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1374/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The tower at Navajo Point was commissioned by the Fred Harvey Company. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1370/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1370/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT A 1974 house in Hokkaido that was taken apart down to its frame, with a greenhouse of wood and polycarbonate built onto it. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1363/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1363/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The new house in Koksijde stands on the foundation of an old house in the dunes. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1355/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1355/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Claude Bragdon was an architect from Rochester; he built the New York Central station there in 1909 and was seriously interested in theosophy. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1354/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1354/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT A kindergarten within a round white enclosure: inside, a courtyard and two classrooms under a curved roof. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1350/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1350/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT A drifter takes a job at a roadside diner and, together with the owner's wife, plots to kill her husband. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1346/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1346/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The shelter was built by the London-based Studio Armitage among the rice fields and vegetable plots of the Amagatsuji district in Nara. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1340/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1340/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT William Lescaze came to New York from Switzerland in 1920 as an unknown and started out as a draftsman. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1336/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1336/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The Swiss Embassy in Nairobi: red-brown walls with deep, splayed window openings, surrounded by a lawn and tall trees. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1332/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1332/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT An exhibition of a collection of architectural drawings in Valladolid: sketches by Le Corbusier, Aalto and Moneo in long display cases under lamps. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1324/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1324/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The kite has its own name in every language. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1316/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1316/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Hortus conclusus is an enclosed garden behind a wall, a frequent subject of medieval and Renaissance painting. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1312/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1312/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT A small church in Incheon: pale brick, wooden slats and, inside, a wall with a relief texture. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1311/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1311/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The Eiffel Tower in fog above the Seine, barges under tarpaulins in the foreground, streetlamps along the embankment. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1302/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1302/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Parajanov's camera is almost motionless, the cuts are abrupt, and each frame is composed like a miniature from an old manuscript. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1297/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1297/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The summer palace for Charles V was begun in 1527 right inside the Alhambra, among the Nasrid courtyards and towers on the Sabika hill. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1295/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1295/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Charcoal drawings of empty rooms: windows with their frames, light through curtains and a dark floor. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1292/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1292/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Photographs from Robert Frank's The Americans: a covered car between palm trees, a woman with a child in a window, a young man in a hat with a cigar. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1288/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1288/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Katie Ladd photographed the San Cataldo Cemetery on black-and-white film, and little remains of the familiar image: the blue roofs and pink walls have turned the same gray. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1281/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1281/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Christian Wassmann built a house for a young family around a boulder. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1277/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1277/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT A photobook by Nicola Buonomo: black-and-white courtyards, laundry on a line, shadows on the sand and a chair by a brick wall. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1276/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1276/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT A 19th-century lithograph of the lunar surface: the craters and seas are labeled with Latin names, like a map of a foreign country. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1269/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1269/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT An outpatient clinic for the Balearic health service IBSalut in Son Ferriol, Palma. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1262/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1262/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Richardson built the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail in 1884–1886. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1258/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1258/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT Stills from Suzuki's Yumeji: an old station, an ivy-covered stone wall, a room in half-darkness and a woman in a kimono. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1257/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1257/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT An old negative from a family ski trip, from which the artist cut out a piece of the mountain, leaving a black silhouette on the snow. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1255/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1255/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT The facade of Gropius's model factory at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition: strict symmetry, a sculpture and a fountain in front of the entrance. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1254/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1254/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A rusty tower and a wall of thousands of mirrors catching the sun, with steam pouring from a window. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1250/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1250/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Ink drawings of German interiors: a staircase, a hall with a latticed ceiling, a kitchen with a tiled stove. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1249/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1249/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT New York turned into Niagara Falls: skyscrapers stand at the very edge of the cliff, and the streets flow down in a solid wall of water. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1246/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1246/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT The chapel stands in Monks' Lagoon on Spruce Island, on the site of the cell of Saint Herman of Alaska. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1242/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1242/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A brick mill in Alabama with a wooden water wheel, photographed for the HABS archive in the 1930s. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1241/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1241/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT The vault of the ruined audience hall at Resafa: the stones have cracked and fanned apart, and a cross is carved at the top. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1240/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1240/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A giant Buddha head among the coal heaps in Ningxia, with a person standing beside it for scale. https://theahmag.com/en/o/1235/ https://theahmag.com/en/o/1235/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A public housing tower for the elderly. The budget was modest and the plans inside are the most ordinary kind: studios and one-bedroom units with straight walls.