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Toronto City Hall: How Finnish architecture rebranded a city

Made modern: That was what happened to Toronto when it launched a 1958 international design competition and landed an emerging star of Finnish modernism, Viljo Revell, to design its futuristic City Hall. It was an alien thing: a building [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

'Architecture' not limited to big city

Well, excuuuze me. For suggesting that the "architecture" (yes, architecture) of the new Crate and Barrel store, along with Whole Foods, its companion, was superior to the butler building they replaced south of Woodfield (not w [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 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

The Sea City Concept Architecture by Jacque Fresco

The best of the amazing architecture concept future designs by Jacque Fresco. This is sea a sea city, amazing for this idea. The architecture concept unrealized because of some reason such as money or no company did not think to build an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Architecture class sizes up city

A Clemson University architecture class will receive its final critique in another presentation to the Spartanburg community today about ideas for "Spartanburg Rising," a class project that aims to revitalize a narrow, two-mile st [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

City's Central Library is our fave architecture

What is Portland's favorite architectural gem? It might be the main Multnomah County Library, a Georgian-style building that dates to 1913. The Central Library came in first in an informal poll by the Bosco-Milligan Foundation, an architect [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Westfield mega mall: the death of city architecture

The Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park in 1851 was, so the late Clive Wainwright, a much missed curator at the Victoria and Albert museum, told me, a "great opportunity to go shopping" for millions o [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Meet the City's Hottest Architects

Decades before Al Gore was revealing some inconvenient truths, Bruce Fowle was erecting eco-friendly buildings in New York City. Since co-founding Fox & Fowle Architects in 1978 (the name was changed to FXFowle in 2005 after the departu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

Outside area of the Toronto City hall, Canada

In 2006 the City of Toronto organised an international design competition for the revitalization of leading tourist attraction- Nathan Phillips Square. Four finalists' are Baird Sampson Neuert Architects(Toronto), Plant Architect Inc.(Tor [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Rome: The City of Luxury

In order to gain some true insight into the historic heritage of Rome and its ancestors, it's crucial to appreciate the tradition of luxury and grandeur afforde As one of the world's most historic and ancient cities, Rome attracts million [...]

Posted On : Aug, 28 2007 | Comments : 0

Oxford City Guide

Famous throughout the world for its 800 years old university, Oxford is a centre for learning and research that continues to attract the very best academics from across the globe. The city also draws tourists from all over the world. More [...]