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HCMC plans to preserve its old architectural buildings

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

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Who knows what makes a great building? English Heritage, that’s who! Like any aesthetic response or any judgment about taste, a mixture of associational and direct factors is involved. Is this building powerfully articulate about th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Is modern architecture now old hat?

Who knows what makes a great building? English Heritage, that’s who! Like any aesthetic response or any judgment about taste, a mixture of associational and direct factors is involved. Is this building powerfully articulate about th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Meet Ernö Goldfinger, the unsung hero of furniture design

Meet Ernö Goldfinger, the unsung hero of furniture design

Hidden in the basement of a terraced house on the Kingsland Road in east London, behind a black metal door, is a gallery called The Russian Club. Currently showing there is an enigmatic little exhibition entitled Ernö Goldfinger v Gr [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Charlotte's Oldest Mid-Century Modern House Faces Demolition

The Lassiter House, the oldest identified Modernist house in Charlotte, and one of the few designed by architect A.G. Odell still standing, will be torn down if not sold by June. The house’s only owners put their three-bedroom [...]

Posted On : Mar, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Famed village of Vietnam holds on to its heritage

Famed village of Vietnam holds on to its heritage

DTiNews takes readers on a journey to a village which holds on to its traditional beauty while the country quickly develops. Despite economic development and influential modern architecture, Tung Anh, a village of former competition-exam [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Home of the Times: The new-old Craftsman

Home of the Times: The new-old Craftsman

Lisa Little was working toward her master's at the Southern California Institute of Architecture when she and husband Phil Brennan bought a tiny lot in Venice with two tiny houses on it: an 850-square-foot bungalow built in 1905 and [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Blending Old-Growth Forest and Modern Metals: Architecture of the Pacific Northwest

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

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

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

New Yards Design Draws From the Old

New Yards Design Draws From the Old

To say that the 22-acre Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn is in disarray is not a major revelation. That it may still be possible to save — and may even be worth saving — comes as news.When Bruce Ratner, the project [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Art, rare architecture mingle in Old Louisville

Malcolm Bird of Louisville, Ky., has two great passions in life — art and architecture. He takes pride in the fact that he was able to use the former to salvage the latter by organizing Louisville’s first St. James Court Clothes [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Modern Home Architecture At Its Best - If only neighbors knew what's behind those old walls ...

Modern Home Architecture At Its Best - If only neighbors kne...

Andrew Maynard Architects are the designers behind this gorgeous modern addition to a Victorian home in Melbourne, Australia. The inspired architecture of Vader House came by breaking a few rules. According to Andrew Maynard Architects, & [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Gold, Glass and Nanotechnology

Gold, Glass and Nanotechnology

The modern science of nanotechnology, the highly-advanced manipulation of matter at a molecular level, and which is set to revolutionise every aspect of our lives in the next decade or so, was in fact invented by a medieval glazier. The tro [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Golden tranquillity(Bangkok)

Golden tranquillity(Bangkok)

We move on towards Phra Mongkon Bophit. Outside, children are holding bird cages and praying in acts of merit-making. Streams of worshippers pour libations of lotus oil over the Buddha in preparation for Songkran (the Thai New Year in April [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2007 | Comments : 0
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