Search Results for 'Building'

The buildings are alive: in biology, designers and architect...

When a shimmering, 600-foot glass tower was erected in London in 2004, it replaced a building that had been destroyed by a terrorist bombing. Yet the inspiration for the tower’s unique, missile-like design was not militaristic: it w [...]

Posted On : Jan, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

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

Dade Heritage Trust Wants to Protect Ugly Miami Herald Build...

The fight over Genting's casino-fueled plans for the current site of the Miami Herald building has been thrown a hitch by an unlikely party: the Dade Heritage Trust. You see, they think that big brown and beige box which is basically [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Bird-Friendly Buildings Eligible for LEED Credit

A new green building credit for "bird friendly buildings" is being tested by the US Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED rating system.Building designers and developers will be able to earn credit for using design strategie [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

A building reputation

Tim Richards takes a trip down art deco memory lane. "WHAT they wanted was simple elegant lines," Robin Grow says as we gaze up at the soaring exterior of the Manchester Unity Building, and it seems as if he's neatly summed [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-19...

In the long history of modernism, painting and architecture only very rarely came together. But the moment when they most visibly did, a little under a century ago, sparked an explosion of visual language that still looks revolutionary to [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Modernist buildings: examples from the era

The nautical theme has been reduced to a corny joke in British seaside architecture, but there's a dignified restraint to it here. The modernist tides of 1930s Europe washed this elegant culture palace up on our shores thanks to an e [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Adach assessing capital's buildings that deserve modern heri...

Abu Dhabi is famed for its contemporary architecture - iconic buildings like Adnec and the Yas Hotel, soaring towers and undulating skins of steel and glass. But around these lie another Abu Dhabi, one made up of the concrete structures t [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Tom Dyckhoff: Britain’s buildings and homes are bad for our ...

For a man who makes a living as an architecture critic, Tom Dyckhoff is breezily dismissive of his craft. “It’s like glorified tourism, in many ways,” he says. “Everyone’s an architecture critic, we’re [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 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

Capital's modern buildings making the list

FOR many Edinburgh residents the concrete and glass facades rising above the shopfronts on Princes Street, or the 20th century university buildings dominating the 18th century terraced houses of George Square, are a cause for regret over [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Six Building Designers Who Are Redefining Modern Architectur...

And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about six building designers widely considered some of the top architects at work today. They are Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, N [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Bespoke buildings from modern Japan

Say you want to live in a library, or in the forest, or in a library in the forest, but you would prefer to maintain your high living standards. There is one architecture studio that has the skills and vision to build the house of your d [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

A post-modern strategy for city building

Toronto architect Stephen Teeple’s scheme for the Gansevoort boutique hotel and condominium tower on Richmond Street West is the most original and striking residential tall-building design to come forward in Hogtown in several year [...]