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Amateur Architecture: A New Vernacular?

Wang Shu may be a surprising choice for this year’s Pritzker Prize, but it’s an excellent one, and well-deserved. In recent years the Pritzker Committee has gravitated towards architects who produce work with an innate underst [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Pink Bedroom Valentine Interior Design 2012

These are the Top Pink Bedroom Design Ideas for Girls : Pink color is girl’s favourite color that reflect tenderness and youth perfect for almost girl’s stuff, a lot of products that make pink as theme for girl’s accecor [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Andrew Geller, Modernist Architect Behind Loewy's Leisurama ...

On the same day as Sori Yanagi, another design giant passed away. Modernist architect Andrew Geller, who worked at Raymond Loewy and Associates for 35 years, died on Sunday at the age of 87. One of the most quirky and groundbreaking [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Dade Heritage Trust Wants to Protect Ugly Miami Herald Build...

The fight over Genting's casino-fueled plans for the current site of the Miami Herald building has been thrown a hitch by an unlikely party: the Dade Heritage Trust. You see, they think that big brown and beige box which is basically [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

SPANISH ARCHITECT VISITS CITY TO MONITOR PROJECT

Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill visited the city earlier this month to check on his first creation in St. Petersburg, an elite business center and apartment complex on Novgorodskaya Ulitsa. Bofill, or “Maestro” as he was r [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect

Anthony J. Lumsden, a prolific Southern California architect who helped develop new ways of wrapping buildings in smooth glass skins, accelerating a shift that reshaped skylines around the world, died Sept. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 83. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Eclectic visual art of modern architecture

THIS is a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book with a strange title but which explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. A professor of architecture and urban design at the University [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries: review

Nikolaus Pevsner’s name is indelibly associated with The Buildings of England, a series of 46 architectural guides published by Penguin and arranged by county, beginning with Cornwall in 1951 and ending with Staffordshire in 1974. C [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

‘IT has made remarkable differences in architecture’

By Charles Mgbolu &Daniel Alfred Without doubt, IT continues to go beyond borders; taking computers, software and the internet to virtually every profession on the face of the earth. Already,traditional architecture has witnessed a dramat [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

White Rock Home Tour showcases modern architecture in East D...

Springtime in North Texas means that the flowers start popping up, and so do the home tours. If traditional designer showcases and 100-year-old historic stunners aren’t your speed but modern architecture is, the White Rock Home Tou [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

The Maestro: Habib Fida Ali

“I was in St Patrick’s primary school in Karachi and I failed and failed… I just loved the movies, and I loved to paint. I would go to the studios in Bombay and get autographs from Madhubala and Dilip Kumar… I r [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Addis Ababa to Demolish Homes Opposite Mega Building

In a meeting held at Abiot Irmija school hall on Friday, residents of Kirkos Sub City, former Woreda 18 Kebele 27, renamed as Woreda 1, were told that the entire area will be demolished in two to three months, according to Capital news r [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Peter Snow's Toronto

I married a Canadian, so have been visiting Toronto for more than 30 years. It's become a second home to me and I have great affection for the city. It's changed a lot over the years – it's far more multicultural for a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

BASA throws its weight behind AZA 2010

Architecture ZA 2010 is fast becoming one of Africa's premier urban culture festivals. The first fully integrated Architecture ZA Festival recently drew students, academics, architects, cultural commentators and producers of all stri [...]