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The Anglo-Swiss author Alain de Botton probably would not relish being called the Jamie Oliver of modern architecture but the comparisons might prove irresistible. By his own admission, the author of The Consolations of Philosophy an [...]

Posted On : Jun, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Green-Build Technology Popular for Commercial Architecture

Sustainability has become a design trend in residential and commercial architecture projects alike, says Tom Ward, a principal of Jackson Hole residential and commercial architects Ward + BlakeAs architects, we’ve always been inter [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Architecture: The End of Excess?

Milwaukee Art Museum. 2001. The first project in the U.S. by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava, best known for his beautiful bridges, was to expand the museum originally designed by Eero Saarinen. Calatrava's new galleries inside [...]

Posted On : Jun, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

China boom lets O.C. architects hire 5

Usually we hear of local jobs lost to growing Asian economies. And hiring in real estate? A rarity! Well, a Laguna Beach urban design firm has hired five workers — and has plans to add a similar amount the rest of this year — [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Step Up on Fifth Receives 2010 AIA National Honor Award for ...

The American Institute of Architects has given a 2010 Institute Honor Award for Architecture to Step Up on 5th, an affordable housing project by Pugh + Scarpa Architects. The award will be presented at the AIA National Convention and [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

London Festival of Architecture Pavilion Unveiled

Price & Myers have revealed their design for a temporary pavilion outside the offices of New London Architecture for this summer's London Festival of Architecture. More than 300 events will take place during this year's festi [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Architectural Styles Primer

The architecture of the United States has included a wide variety of styles throughout its history. Home styles in the U.S. are regionally diverse and the shapes they have taken on have been influenced by many other types of architecture [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Modern Architectural Wonders - Mesmerizing Globally Minded T...

Time flows on without any stop. "The old order changeth, yielding place to new." The great cities like Mohenjo-Daro, Indraprastha, Babylon, and the great architectural building like the Pentagon (the world's largest office [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Architecture review - Frank Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ru...

Walt Disney Concert Hall is a joyously informal ship of state for a city keen to come together, if only for a few hours, in a collective experience. Gehry's own house in Santa Monica, a modest pink bungalow the architect wrapped [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

The Architecture of Jacob Wrey Mould Is a Study in Contrasts

THE reconstruction of the 1870 Central Park Precinct building, on 86th Street, is under way, and only the decoratively tiled dormers peep out over a plywood fence. These are traces of the work of Jacob Wrey Mould, one of New York’s [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Alain de Botton commissions holiday homes to promote moderni...

The philosopher Alain de Botton is to venture into holiday lettings in an attempt to cure the British public of what he believes is a widely held fear of modernist architecture. The author of books including the Consolations of Philosoph [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Luxury Architecture Design Home by Marc Canadell at Hills Ca...

If you have a land at top of hills and want to build new house over there. you can make this modern architecture home called The Nightingale House that was designed by Marc Canadell. This home architecture build in solid material a [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Architecture students design 'masterplan' for Ruthin

The Ruthin: Market Town of the Future project is the brainchild of town mayor and trained architect Gavin Harris. He persuaded his former teacher, Wayne Forster, head of the Design Research Unit Wales, to allow students to study the area [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

New architecture studio wins award

The studio beat an exceptional number of high quality entries to win The David Urwin Award which celebrates the design of new and extended or altered buildings in the Cambridge area. One prize is awarded every year, with four catego [...]