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- The public lend a hand at the launch of the London Festival of Architecture
The public lend a hand at the launch of the London Festival of Architecture
Foster + Partners successfully built a conical structure, interwoven with fabric panels hand-printed by the public to kick off the Kensington and Chelsea hub of the London Festival of Architecture on 21 June. A focal point of the Exhibition Road Festival, the [...]
- Something from Nothing - Sasaki Feaure in The Boston Globe
Why would a company want employees diving into its trash bins? Because at Sasaki Associates, one of the country’s hottest landscape and urban-design firms that’s shaping the Olympic village in Beijing, life is all about salvaging good from bad.
FOREST PARK IS A LARGE GREEN space on the northern fringes of the Beijing Olympic site, home [...]
- New Dubai hub to handle up to 120 million passengers a year - MarketWatch
The world’s tallest tower, largest mall, longest bridge — it has them all, or will soon. The new airport complex, under construction about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of old Dubai, is no exception.The sheer dimensions of the $10 billion Al Maktoum airport are difficult to convey. It will have two huge terminals, six concourses, [...]
- NYC artist builds Lego model of Trump Dubai tower — Newsday.com
New York City artist has built a replica of the soon-to-open Trump Dubai hotel tower out of thousands of Lego pieces.
Nathan Sawaya’s 10-foot version of the distinctive five-star hotel is expected to be unveiled Monday in Columbus Circle.
SOURCE: Newsday.com – NYC artist builds Lego model of Trump Dubai tower
- Making San Francisco into a people-oriented city
Tim Holt of San Francisco Chronicle interviews urban planning guru, Jan Gehl about San Francisco and create urban spaces and a more pedestrain city(Ed– Maybe hard with those hills) and open air shopping.
Read more @ the SOURCE: SFGate.com – Making S.F. into a people-oriented city
- Good design requires innovation - Seattlepi.com
GRAHAM BLACK AND BRAD KHOURI have written a comprehensive article about designing residential developments in Seattle.
Town homes don’t have to be ugly and dampen the human spirit. But so many of them are eyesores that town homes have become a lighting rod in the local debate over housing. They’ve been blamed for the decline of community [...]
- Winners of IFLA2008 Student Competition
The head of the jury, Prof. Beverly Sandalack has announced the three winners of the IFLA Student Competition 2008.
The winners are (in random order):- ‘Waving Mat’ by Li Jinhzhu, Zhao Yue, Yuan Shouyu, Ling Chunyang and Chen Jing of the School of Architecture, Tianjin University, China- ‘Kemet’ by Philipp Urech, ETH Zurich, Switzerland- ‘Landscape [...]
- New green materials testing lab for Dubai - Xpress
Dubai Municipality has established a new laboratory for testing green materials. The new initiative will be used for assessing the characteristics of these materials as per the international approved standard specifications, said Eng. Hawa Abdullah Bastaki, Director of Dubai Central Laboratory Department.
She said the initiative is also in line with the Dubai Government’s directives on [...]
- Foriegn firms aren’t just in India for the cash
The Times of India looks at foreign firms in India and talks about
Be it a slum redevelopment project in congested Mumbai or Kolkata’s new museum of modern art, the global imprint on the country’s fast-changing urban landscape is evident. Made in India but designed by a clutch of foreign architects looking to cash in on the [...]
- IHG to open tallest hotel in Vietnam by 2011
InterContintenal Hotels & Resorts(IHG) to open Vietnam’s tallest hotel in 2011 InterContinental Hanoi Landmark to occupy upper floors of a new 336-metre tower, one of the world’s tallest buildings
IHG announced the addition of InterContinental Hanoi Landmark, Vietnam’s tallest hotel, to its growing list of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts under development. The company has signed [...]
- The battle of the skyscrapers - Salon News
For an entire century, New York was the city of skyscrapers, the epitome of the vertical city. It just kept growing into the sky, faster and faster. It was an exhilarating adventure in stone, steel and glass — and seemingly unsurpassable.
In “Delirious New York,” his legendary 1978 book about the giant city of skyscrapers and [...]
- Dwell on Design Los Angeles to start on June 5
What happens when Dwell editors drive the agenda? A roster of more than 50 incredibly talented and diverse speakers ranging from legislators to practitioners to activists, discussing everything from urban gardening to a mandated LEED program for LA. The conference follows two parallel tracks but we encourage you to veer from the linear and sign [...]
- Athens’ deserted Games sites a warning to London Olympics - Telegraph.co.uk
The buildings constructed in Athens for the Olympic Games four years ago are fly blown, closed to the public and covered in graffiti, a forewarning of the possible aftermath of the London Games in 2012.
Of the 22 venues in the city, 21 are in a state of disrepair and under guard to prevent vandalism.
Athens spent [...]
- Living Steel Announces Finalists for 3rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Hous - Living Steel
Brussels, Belgium, 2 June 2008 - Living Steel today divulged the 12 finalist architect teams who will submit concepts for sustainable steel housing in Cherepovets, Russia. Selected from 246 completed submissions from architects in 52 countries expressing interest to compete, the finalist teams are:
Short-listed Finalists Ben Addy and Tim Murray Moxon Architects, Ltd United [...]
- NORDHAVNEN, COPENHAGEN: THE SUSTAINABLE CITY OF THE FUTURE
Open international ideas competitionCompetition period: 27 May to 26 September 2008Final date for submission of questions: 4 August 2008Questions and answers will be uploaded to this websiteThere is no deadline for registration.
CPH City and Port Development has launched an open international ideas competition for the Northern Harbour in Copenhagen, a new urban development area with [...]
- Olympic Park construction gets early start - London 2012
Construction officially started on the London 2012 Olympic Park today as the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) began work on the Olympic Stadium - three months earlier than originally planned.The work to create the permanent foundations for the Stadium was witnessed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown who had an opportunity to meet workers on site. In [...]
- Outdoor living areas all the rage : Home & Garden : The Rocky Mountain News
The days of spending six digits to remodel that kitchen are over.
Landscape architects are seeing a change in the way people are using their hard-earned money: In the coming decade, they’ll spend their cash (and their time) on the outdoor “great room.”
Erase the image of a simple patio with a few potted plants scattered around. [...]
- Design Debate Over Flight 93 Memorial Revived - New York Times
It has been more than two years since two college professors first made their claim that the winning design chosen for the Flight 93 National Memorial had evolved to contain elements of their proposal to honor those who died fighting the terrorists who hijacked the plane on Sept. 11, 2001.
And after an investigation by the [...]
- City’s Signature Roof - Vancouver Sun
At the moment, the grandest and most ethically ambitious architecture in the city — the green, living roof of the new convention centre — resembles a hair plug job. There’s a lot of bald up there.
It’s sparse, but growth proceeds. They started planting it two weeks ago, and crews are working their way across the [...]
- Cityscape China 2008 featuring world renowned real estate projects
Shanghai and Singapore (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Aside from featuring world-wide real estate developers from more than 15 countries, Cityscape China 2008 — the renowned international real estate investment and development event — will showcase numerous high profile projects including those of US-based MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM), UAE’s ETA Star Property, Meydan LLC, and Dubai’s Fortune [...]
