Search Results for 'Architecture'

Modern Residential Architecture in Peru by Peru Juan Carlos ...

Famous an architect form Peru Juan Carlos Doblado has complete a amazing new Modern Residential Architecture in the foothills of the Andes. With two accurate pavilions, one nestled into the bank slope, Modern Residential Architecture adde [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Urban struggle: Tokyos tussle with preservation of architect...

The nightlife quarter of Kabukicho, just east of JR Shinjuku Station, bristles with non-stop activity. Amid the garish flashes of neon are touts cruising for clients, drifting drunks, hostesses hustling off to bars and the occasional gangst [...]

Posted On : Jun, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Portland's streetcar architecture -- past becomes future

Portland's future and its past intersect at 28th Avenue and East Burnside.A hundred feet or so from an old red brick trolley barn -- long since converted to offices -- workers are constructing an eye-catching, four-story condo with ground [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

New guide to Smithsonian architecture honors 160th anniversa...

“A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture” (Smithsonian Books) is a gorgeous, photo-filled new book providing fascinating insight into the buildings that house the so-called “nation’s attic”. The book combin [...]

Posted On : Jun, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Architecture Review

We’ll have to wait to find out exactly what the end of the Age of Excess means for architecture in New York. Yes, the glut of high-concept luxury towers was wearisome. But some great civic works were also commissioned in that era. A [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Architecture - New light on modern masters

The restaurant is booked for weeks to come, the white oak floors are already scuffed and the queue for the bridge to Millennium Park is impossibly long. Renzo Piano's $300 million Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago opened just tw [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Historic Architecture vs. Clean Energy

Preservationists are debating the merits of solar panels or other green features on historic buildings, according to Mark Huck, a restoration architect in California’s Office of Historic Preservation who contacted Green Inc. after see [...]

Posted On : May, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Archaeology Meets Architecture in Project by Cotera+Reed

To preserve the prehistoric bones at Waco Mammoth Site, Cotera+Reed Architects has strived to intertwine the firm’s creative vision with the immutable realities of sunlight, Central Texas heat, and the rigors of scientific preservatio [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Zaha Hadid defies recession with ground-breaking architectur...

If Zaha Hadid is worried about world economic collapse putting the kibosh on her career, she’s not showing it. She slinks into her fiercely bleached, immaculate penthouse living room all swagger and attitude. She is smaller than yo [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

The Beautiful Side of Modern Residential Architecture

Australia has some wonderful natural landscape and the Cape Shank House by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects is a fine example of a modern home that has adapted well to its environment. This angular dwelling features a great view from a [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Toronto condo, B.C. Olympic oval win architecture awards

A luxury condo in Toronto, the Prince George Airport and the Olympic Oval in Richmond, B.C., are among the winners of the 2009 Awards of Excellence from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. The awards are given every two years for a [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Boycott Prince's architecture lecture

In the mid-1980s, Prince Charles publicly trashed several works of modern architecture, both built and unbuilt. In doing so he used his influential royal position by intervening in the democratic process of planning applications securing, f [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Modern architecture disappoints

The Prince of Wales is right to try to stop the erection of Lord Rogers' inappropriate flats in Chelsea. Richard Eden (Mandrake, April 26) quotes Lord Rogers saying that the architect of the Royal Hospital Chelsea "pushed the boundarie [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Modern Architecture of London

London is full of exciting architecture, mixing the old with the new. Focusing on the modern architecture there are a few pieces that are a must-see. One of the most recent additions is Norman Foster's "Gherkin" which is an office [...]