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Amid Historic Homes, New England Moves to Preserve a Modern ...

In a region that prizes center-chimney Colonials, shingled Capes, saltboxes and other homes that have helped shape New England’s unmistakable sense of place, Polly Flansburgh’s boxy, low-slung house does not leap out as histor [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Linear House: A modern oasis amid island wilderness

Cheered on by a large, chic crowd gathered from the worlds of design and fashion into Harbourfront Centre, Azure magazine editor Nelda Rodger unveiled her Toronto-based journal’s first AZ Awards for excellence in international archi [...]

Posted On : Jul, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Wartime Architects: Creating Amid Chaos

The history of architecture during World War II is barely talked about. We all know Albert Speer, the man who slavishly carried out Hitler’s megalomaniacal architectural fantasies; some know about Mies van der Rohe’s exile in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Mammoth Pyramidal Arcology Designed for New Orleans

Arcology may sound like a made up word – probably because it is. A hybrid of architecture and ecology, it is essentially a mega city which packs a ginormous population into one hyperstructure – think Death Star, Zion in The M [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid – 2004

Had it ever been greenlighted, the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid would have been 12 times larger than the Great Pyramid at Giza, and capable of housing over 750 thousand people. Proposed as the largest man-made structure on earth, the giant [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Pyramid of Peace

Recently opened the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan. According to Foster and Partners "as a non-denominational contemporary building form, the pyramid is resonant of both a spiritual histor [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Pyramid of Khafre at Giza, Egypt

The pyramids at Giza in Egypt, are among the most famous pieces of architecture in the world. The Pyramid of Khafre was built as the final resting place of the pharaoh Khafre in about 2530 BC. This pyramid, about 136 m (446 ft) high, was [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

The great Pyramids!

There are about 110 pyramids currently known in Egypt, many in a state of great disrepair and almost unrecognisable. Some were built as burial places for kings and others for queens. A pyramid also may have represented a stairway for the ki [...]