Search Results for 'Architecture'

Dubai home shows an ultra-modern approach to Arabic architec...

It's not what most people would describe as Arabic architecture. With its sleek, minimalist lines and stark geometry, it bears none of the hallmarks that we have come to associate with local design. There are no wind towers or mock ma [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Eclectic visual art of modern architecture

THIS is a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book with a strange title but which explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. A professor of architecture and urban design at the University [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Church invests in modern architecture

In the past ten years only around ten new churches, a few chapels and one parish centre have been built in Finland. "The number of parish households is going down, therefore no new churches are needed", says Chief Architect Antt [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Art: Cincinnati Modern Architecture-- A Retrospective

If you automatically think historic architecture must be 19th century or earlier, think again. At the Betts House, itself built in 1804, the exhibition Cincinnati Modern Architecture – A Retrospective opens Saturday to run through S [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Barrio Historico House combines tradition and modern archite...

The Barrio Historico House got its name from its location: Tucson’s Barrio Historico, a district keeping the flavour of the Mexican-American mix. Rising from between the flat-roofed mud-brick houses and roofs made from saguaro ribs [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

San Francisco Architecture Firm, AXIS Architecture + Design'...

Construction has started on AXIS Architecture + Design's remodel project at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento. The San Francisco architecture firm has been employed to be the architect for a new and improved lobby, restaurant and meeting r [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

John Shearer: Modernism Architecture

Numerous Chattanooga buildings and homes have recently or will soon reach their 50th anniversaries as structures representing a unique style of architecture – modernism. Modernism could include buildings in which glass, steel or rei [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Restoration Home: nostalgia, architecture and murder

Property shows run on a simple formula: the bigger the challenge, the better the pratfalls. It’s a notion that has powered the genre’s favourite series, from Grand Designs to Help! My House Is Falling Down. Watching a plucky o [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

AAMI Park stadium sweeps Victorian Architecture Awards

The stadium was awarded the Victorian Architecture Medal, The Melbourne Prize and the William Wardell Award for Public Architecture (New). The project was also awarded the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture.In the award citation, Chai [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Nine Wacky Examples Of Container Architecture

Turn a corner nowadays, and you’ll find a building made out of shipping containers. So it was probably inevitable that architects would take this symbol of a “globalized, mobile, nomadic age,” to quote German curator Wer [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Restored Building Promotes Modern Architecture

A building constructed in 1926 in Havana's western neighbourhood of Miramar called "La Casa de las Tejas Verdes" (The House of the Green Tiles) now emerges as a center for the promotion of modern architecture, urban renewal [...]

Posted On : Jun, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Palm Springs Modern Architecture is Haute

Palm Springs has one of the largest concentrations of mid-century modern architecture in the country. Since the 1920's, visionary modernist architects have designed sleek, modern homes that have embraced the desert environment. The dr [...]

Posted On : Jun, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Oakley home tour is lesson in Victorian architecture

OAKLEY - Faded orange brick marks most of the historical homes in Oakley, and you won't need help picking them out among the ordinary bungalows and modern homes that line the town's roads. Still, some details of Oakley's Victo [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

CLASSIC ARCHITECTURES Model and Plans of the TWA Terminal by...

I suppose that every architects know the TWA Terminal Eero Saarinen designed for JFK airport (New York) in 1962. However, the following photographs are maybe less known but almost as extraordinary than the building itself: pictures of the [...]