Search Results for 'Architecture'

Photos sought of modern Mississippi architecture for exhibit

The American Institute of Architects Mississippi Chapter is issuing an open call for photographic submissions for an upcoming exhibition highlighting Mississippi’s modern architecture.The competition is open to amateur and professi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Ezra Stoller's Photographic Prints of Landmarks of Modern Ar...

Ezra Stoller's gelatin silver prints include images of architectural interiors and iconic landmarks. Based on his background in architecture and industrial design, Stoller used a large-format camera to photograph monumental 20th cent [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Delhi where historical Monuments Coexist with Modern Archite...

Brief vacations and site seeing, that too visiting wonders of nature or historical monuments has been one of the desirable pastimes which provide an escape from one’s hectic routine life and career and enable in developing new cont [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

MEGA Expands; Adds Enterprise Architecture Partner in South ...

Since 1999, General DIGITAL has introduced internationally recognized software brands and techniques to the local market and has been the exclusive South African distributor for one EA software brand. By introducing MEGA, General DIGITAL [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Alain de Botton’s First Effort to Bring Modern Architecture ...

Alain de Botton, the Swiss-born essayist who lives in London, founded a nonprofit group called Living Architecture in 2009 with a simple goal. “I want people to experience modern domestic architecture,” Mr. de Botton said. &l [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Palm Springs: the Birthplace of Desert Modernism - Rarely Se...

Attention mid-century modern architecture buffs- The Palm Springs’ Modern Heritage Fund’s 2010 annual home tour is scheduled for November 6 sponsored by Paul Kaplan. This year’s tour will be covering distinctive archite [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Michigan Modern: A look at Modern architecture around Ann Ar...

Michigan Modern is a project of the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. Its goal is to document the Modern architecture of the state, focusing on buildings from the 1940s to the 1970s. Modernism is characterized by clean, functi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Has New York architecture missed its moment?

Displayed in the back of the soaring concrete-floored gallery two floors below street level, the liquid wall has the clean, white, sculptural appeal of something from a movie that takes place in the future; it’s made of an elegant [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Blending Old-Growth Forest and Modern Metals: Architecture o...

One of the best parts of growing up in Washington State was crossing the Cascades into Eastern Washington, a land of rolling farms, wineries, miles and miles of apple orchards, and huge, deep glacial lakes that are swimmable only on the [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

School haled for modern architecture heads toward demolition

The Nebraska City School Board set an asking price of $199,000 for the vacated Northside school building and 5.1 acres of land with a deadline of Dec. 13. If the 42-year-old building is not sold over the next eight weeks, it will be demo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

A Sea Change in Architecture?

Architecture is often appreciated for its grandness. The philosophy, it seems, is not to keep things simple; the art of architecture is especially meant to be admired by the privileged few, not the common people. Or so it has been [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Have a holiday in modern architecture

It is a gentle process of seduction. The thinking behind the writer and philosopher Alain de Botton's latest project is to entice us into a love of the modern house by offering the opportunity to live in one for ourselves. From next [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Modern Japanese Architecture and Interior Design

Here is a great example of careful space planning combined with modern architecture in the White Sea House in Japan. The Takao Shiotsuka Atelier architect firm designed this home to face the sea which welcomes in the great visuals with e [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Modern architecture takes in view of Lake Travis

From the front, Jon and Joyce Champeny's house at 1023 Challenger Drive in Lakeway looks unassuming. A limestone exterior with a standing-seam metal roof gives it a Texas feel. But the front of the house hides the grandeur of La [...]