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Modern architecture rises through the ranks of home design f...

Research carried out by the property portal found that Victorian architecture was the most popular (25.6%) among respondents who were asked to vote for their favourite from a list of homes from different eras. This was closely followed [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

The architect discusses winning this year’s Driehaus Prize, which honors classical architecture and traditional urbanism, and how he plans to spend the $200k award.

The architect discusses winning this year’s Driehaus Prize, ...

Michael Graves is better known for appropriating traditional forms in his monumental Postmodern compositions than for being a strict classicist, so it may seem surprising that in December he was named the winner of the 2012 Driehaus Prize [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE ACADEMY

Museum memories can be of two kinds. You can either remember the visit in terms of the spectacular architecture, what you bought in the museum shop, ate in the café and what the city looked like from the rooftop, the welcome relief [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Ricardo Legorreta dies at 80; Mexican modernist architect

Ricardo Legorreta dies at 80; Mexican modernist architect

Ricardo Legorreta, the architect who introduced Mexican modernism to a global audience and who brought his crisp, brightly colored aesthetic to downtown Los Angeles with a controversial 1993 redesign of Pershing Square, has died. He was 8 [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

HCMC plans to preserve its old architectural buildings

HCMC plans to preserve its old architectural buildings

According to Nguyen Trong Hoa, Head of the Institute of Research and Development of HCMC, while old heritage buildings are by law   preservation sites, HCMC still lacks proper regulations to protect those that are classified as [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Who knows what makes a great building? English Heritage, that’s who! Like any aesthetic response or any judgment about taste, a mixture of associational and direct factors is involved. Is this building powerfully articulate about th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | 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

Constructive criticism: the week in architecture

Constructive criticism: the week in architecture

Maggie's centres have proved one of the most imaginative and sensitive architectural patrons this year, with the opening of two new cancer care buildings, in Nottingham, by Piers Gough and Paul Smith, and Swansea, by Kisho Kurokawa. N [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Gene R. Summers dies at 83; architect renovated L.A. Biltmore

Gene R. Summers dies at 83; architect renovated L.A. Biltmor...

Gene R. Summers, an architect and developer who undertook the first major renovation of the historic Biltmore Hotel, reviving interest in downtown Los Angeles and helping to spark its revitalization, has died. He was 83. Summers, who reti [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Who knows what makes a great building? English Heritage, that’s who! Like any aesthetic response or any judgment about taste, a mixture of associational and direct factors is involved. Is this building powerfully articulate about th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

An Esther McCoy revival tells story of L.A.'s modern archite...

Esther McCoy is having a moment. The architecture critic and historian, who died in 1989 at age 85, is the subject of a smart Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, building on McCoy's deep connecti [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Gene Summers, architect of McCormick Place, dies at 83

Gene Summers, architect of McCormick Place, dies at 83

Architect Gene Summers, whose flat-roofed lakeside McCormick Place building has been one of the city's most powerful expressions of modernism--and a target for open space advocates and a former mayor--since its completion in 1971, has [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 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

Can Modern Architecture Ever Gain Favor in Historic Neighborhoods?

Can Modern Architecture Ever Gain Favor in Historic Neighbor...

There was a very good architect who's very le Corbusier-ish. A lot of people don't like his work at all. He did a building in the downtown. The building that he was replacing was a very nondescript building from the '30s. It h [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

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