Search Results for 'ARCHITECT'

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

Landscape Architects Descend On Hartford's Bushnell Plaza Wi...

As downtown workers line up at food carts and bustle around the Old State House at lunchtime on a summer day, just down Main Street at Bushnell Plaza there is rarely a reason to stop. A large, concrete wall runs along the sidewalk for doz [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 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

Minnesota architect and U prof Leonard Parker dies

Leonard Parker, a Minnesota architect who taught at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota, for decades, died July 25. Parker built many notable structures across the state, including the U's Mondale Hall and the Humphrey School [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 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

Classic Brass Architectural - Facts and More

The classic architecture of the middle age is making a comeback and was being incorporated with today's modern architectural designs. And as a result, more elegant and sophisticated designs of modern industrial products from house fur [...]

Posted On : Jul, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Just add water (and architect): Deep green community to grow...

The architect responsible for the Modern Living Showhouse at Dwell on Design 2011, is a force behind Grow Community, a 137-home eco-enclave complete with shared composting facilities and kayak storage on Bainbridge Island, Wash.In my post [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 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 [...]