Search Results for 'Architectural'

Rescuing Architectural Heritage From the Brink

Monday's New York Times had a small story with big implications, on the last-minute rescue of the archives of Minoru Yamasaki, architect of the World Trade Center. The Michigan State Office of Historical Preservation had to send [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Architectural Photographer, Tim Street-Porter

After four decades of shooting, Tim Street-Porter is still one of our busiest architectural photographers. He travels the world on assignment for top design and architectural magazines in addition to working extensively on books no [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

architectural expo in italy by 2010 on Architecture

Silvestre, along with Francesco Iodice and Giuseppe Iodice from Iodice Architetti worked with Giampaolo Imbrighi, Teresa Crescenzi, Antonello De Bonis, and Cosimo Dominelli in the design of the pavillion. The project proposes a building [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Exhibition and book explore architectural heritage of Labrau...

In the late 1960s, Amelie Edgü bought a house in the southwestern holiday resort town of Bodrum. Following the purchase, she had a chance to visit the many villages and historic ruins surrounding Bodrum and Milas Edgü, the cura [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Architectural audacity

In the years following 1946, after Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) took charge of the conservation of Brihadisvara temple. At Thanjavur, conservationists noticed that the jambs and lintels of all the doorways in the tower were syste [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

An architectural tour of East Berlin

Berlin has been melded back together so well over the last two decades that there are now very few obvious visual clues to the division that once was: the shiny "golf ball" TV Tower, the East Side Gallery (the longest remaining st [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Without its Wall, Berlin an architectural free-for-all

Plans to erect a giant staircase to straddle the remains of the Berlin Wall have long been shelved but the city is still an architectural work in progress, 20 years after the hated barrier fell. When the Wall was finally pulled down, city p [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Design Pittsburgh shines spotlight on year's best architectu...

It's art in which we live, work and play. Art that occupies every corner of our city, and the curves that crawl around the region. It's art that is tied to the past and the future, that at its best, is innovative and inspirational. It's [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Ten architectural gems in Brussels

Brussels is rightly famed for its Art Nouveau architecture - this was the home of architects Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, after all, who are credited with designing the two first Art Nouveau buildings in the world: Horta's Hotel Tassel and [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Architectural gems up for sale

Brian Linder, a real estate agent at the Value of Architecture in Beverly Hills, said he believes the market for good design remains strong. "However, the lenders are no longer seeing any value in good design," he said. &quo [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Posting architectural high-water mark with coast house

FEW would disagree with Professor Philip Goad's comment on the house that has won Victoria's top residential architecture award - "you are not going to see these in your everyday suburban subdivisions". The "Letterbox House [...]

Posted On : Jul, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

7 Brilliant Building Conversion Projects: Superb Examples of...

Adaptive reuse used to be a tactic of necessity - people didn’t have the time, energy or money to build something new so they made the best with what they had. Today it is a way to stand out, make a statement, go bold and try somethin [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Architectural reflections

Walking down to the conference venue for the first time I had the privilege to chat a bit with Eric Evans. It turns out that The Man has some interest in building architecture as well and was quite intrigued by Malmoes latest great building [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Living the Architectural Dream

After Wood’s work, residence in Bath (or at least a visit there) was the epitome of fashion. Austen took up residence at 13 Queen square for six weeks in May/June of 1799 with. She stayed with her brother Edward and his wife, while re [...]