Search Results for 'City'

Integrating the Museum into the City, the new SFMOMA expansi...

Earlier this year I was asked to join the accessions committee for the Architecture and Design Department of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It seems it was an opportune time, as the museum is making some exciting changes, most no [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

SPANISH ARCHITECT VISITS CITY TO MONITOR PROJECT

Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill visited the city earlier this month to check on his first creation in St. Petersburg, an elite business center and apartment complex on Novgorodskaya Ulitsa. Bofill, or “Maestro” as he was r [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Ford Center's design, interior a modern take on city's histo...

The Ohio River remains a defining characteristic of Evansville, both economically and culturally, its horseshoe bend literally shaping the city. So it's little surprise that both the designers of Ford Center and the artist whose work [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Casual simplicity is the glue

When Melissa Cobb set out to build a new kitchen, she wanted the Silver Lake house — built in 1939 and traditional in style — to feel updated in a subtly modern way. "It's always so interesting to blend modern an [...]

Posted On : May, 09 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 [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Tall tales of the city

WHEN it comes to buildings, Chicago has other cities beat. Even Manhattan can't compete: not just with the number of soaring skyscrapers that stud the city's skyline but also the quality of the architecture. Chicago is an open-ai [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Sexy in the city

Just like people, some buildings have a je ne sais quoi that can only be described as sex appeal, so with that in mind the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com have compiled this list of the world’s 10 sexiest b [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Finding Modern design in the Federal City

The Washington metro is known for its traditional architecture, Federal and Colonial style homes in particular, with some Arts and Crafts neighborhoods thrown in. But there are plenty of modern and contemporary homes that are a bit more [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Kabul's Old City Gets A Face-Lift, And An Injection Of Cash

Kabul has been so damaged by wars and pell-mell rebuilding that it's hard to remember this was once a pretty city with elegant mud-brick mansions, elaborate carved-wood lattices, and shady courtyards. But some of the old neighbo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 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

Toronto City Hall: How Finnish architecture rebranded a city

Made modern: That was what happened to Toronto when it launched a 1958 international design competition and landed an emerging star of Finnish modernism, Viljo Revell, to design its futuristic City Hall. It was an alien thing: a building [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

'Architecture' not limited to big city

Well, excuuuze me. For suggesting that the "architecture" (yes, architecture) of the new Crate and Barrel store, along with Whole Foods, its companion, was superior to the butler building they replaced south of Woodfield (not w [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Architectural audacity

In the years following 1946, after Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) took charge of the conservation of Brihadisvara temple. At Thanjavur, conservationists noticed that the jambs and lintels of all the doorways in the tower were syste [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

The Sea City Concept Architecture by Jacque Fresco

The best of the amazing architecture concept future designs by Jacque Fresco. This is sea a sea city, amazing for this idea. The architecture concept unrealized because of some reason such as money or no company did not think to build an [...]