Archive for May, 2008
ARCHRECORD.COM -
Desert buildings that produce more energy than they consume may no longer be the stuff of mirages. Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture recently won a competition to design Masdar Headquarters, a 1.6-million-square-foot, zero-waste, zero-carbon facility that it predicts will generate not only enough power to run itself, but also surplus energy to [...]
BOSTON GLOBE – Mohsen Mostafavi, the new dean at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, is much more than a man who understands lines, brick, and mortar. He is a philosopher of sorts. Since arriving from Cornell, where he served as dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Mostafavi has been thinking about [...]
ARCHINECT.COM – Architecture for Humanity is raising funds to support reconstruction efforts after this weekend’s devastating cyclone in Myanmar. Please help communities rebuild! Read Story
CBC NEWS -
British architect Norman Foster has been approached to lead the redesign and restoration project for the museum, which is expected to handle more than five million visitors annually.
Foster, known for his high-tech style, also designed the three-sided Russia Tower in Moscow’s new business district, the New Holland architectural ensemble in St. Petersburg and [...]
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE – In a world that has accepted the concept of globalization, it is now necessary to consider whether the notion of authentic architecture continues to be valid.
The world has adapted many of what have become the archetypes of design, the tall glass office building, shopping malls, franchise stores, residential developments, low end [...]
CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS – Urban environments – and their potential for redevelopment – are a reason for celebration in America.
“There is nothing wrong with poor people that good food, sunlight, celebration and architecture can’t fix,” said Strickland, a developer and author. Read Story
THE ARCHITECT’S JOURNAL – The news comes just two months after the AF decided to scrap its plans for a new headquarters building designed by Zaha Hadid in Southwark, south London after they spent four years on the drawing board. Read Story
LONELY PLANET – On the list of must-see residential structures in the United States — a list that includes Fallingwater, Monticello, the Winchester House, Hearst Castle and even the ranch and cape prefabs of Levittown — Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., is perhaps the most iconic, and the one that should be [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown. Read Story
(Photo: Courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Cooper, Robertson & Partners)
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Richard Neutra’s residence in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles was given to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, by the Neutra family in 1990. But recently the university, which is financially pressed, announced that unless private financing is found to sustain the house, it may have to be sold. [...]
