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27/08/08 0 comments

The NY Times reports that wind power could generate up to 20% of our energy needs - but our infrastructure, in short, sucks and therefore can't handle the distribution of wind power from peak locations at peak times. Lets build an energy superhighway! [read the NYT article by clicking the title of this post]
26/08/08 0 comments

Advocates for saving Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School suffered a blow at this Tuesday’s Sarasota County school board meeting. In effect, the school board voted 3-2 to demolish the 1958 paragon of natural ventilation and intelligent shading. The details of the resolution are complicated, but the result is that without further action, the modern masterpiece—one of 2008’s “100 most endangered sites” according to the World Monuments Fund—will be paved over for a parking lot within the next year to service the new, larger high school currently under construction adjacent to the old building [click the title of this post to read the full article, over at Metropolis].
25/08/08 0 comments

“Ziggurat” is the name of the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley with the characteristic form of a terraced pyramid with successively receding stories. Now the name is about to enter a new phase. Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe a sustainable city of the future [click the title of this post to read the full article at WAN].
19/08/08 0 comments

The Sagrada Familia is the undisputed masterpiece and life’s work of Catalan architect, Antoino Gaudi. It is also a building mired in controversy and just plain bad luck. As the building edges ever closer toward completion, which is estimated to be in the next two decades, another protest has broken out questioning whether anyone is capable of doing justice to the late Master’s vision [click the title of this post to read the full article, via WAN].
18/08/08 0 comments

Gensler Architects has won an international competition to build what will be one of the tallest buildings in the world on Shanghai's Pudong Peninsula, the main cluster of skyscrapers in the city and the second tallest in the world [click the title of this post, via SkyScraperNews.com].
15/08/08 0 comments

The solid massiveness of Rapp & Rapp’s mixed-use development for Ypenburg, a new district located on a former Nato airfield near The Hague, sits easily with the area’s suburban life, reports Biq Architects’ Hans van der Heijden for bd Online [click the title of this post to read the article].
15/08/08 0 comments

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown changed the way we think about Vegas, but the city they loved and wrote about so compellingly has changed almost beyond recognition, and will keep on doing so. Its latest metamorphosis is a startling one: high-rise density oriented toward pedestrians. Is this urbanism drag, or can CityCenter successfully bring traditional ideas about the civic realm to the most car-oriented place in the country? [click the title of this post to read more at the Architect's Newspaper]
13/08/08 0 comments

Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch of BD Online about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg [click the title of this post to read the article].
12/08/08 0 comments

A report from the Climate Group found that China leads the world in installed renewable energy and is overtaking more developed countries in developing sustainable technologies [click the title of this post to find out how, at the CS Monitor].
12/08/08 0 comments

WAN features an editorial by Michael Hammond on the London games in 2012, and the impossible task of following China. AMNP's 2 cents - if you're just worrying now, London, then you're in some trouble [click the title of this post to read the article over at WAN].
11/08/08 0 comments

The Atlas Building at Wageningen University in the Netherlands was designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects - featured over at Architecture Week [click the title of this post to read the article].
08/08/08 1 comment

Tony McIntyre revels in this outstanding exhibition of sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi’s pioneering and influential work [read the article, via BDOnline, by clicking the title of this post].
07/08/08 0 comments

Arch Record proposes ways to make the best of your firm's 'Millennials', aka 'all them young ninjas'. From arch record: "When compared statistically with older generations, Millennials are well educated, technologically adept, outgoing, flexible, eager to learn, and adventuresome. But they also tend to be coddled by their parents and may be quick to express an opinion without knowing all the facts. They are impatient with the less-exciting aspects of project production, and are willing to jump to new job opportunities if they feel their careers aren’t progressing fast enough" [click the title of this post to read the full article].
06/08/08 1 comment
Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells SPIEGEL his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends his decision to build for a regime criticized for human rights violations [click the title of this post to read the interview].
05/08/08 0 comments

The oil price is dropping. The Economist says 'not so fast - no celebrating yet' [click the title of this post to read the article].
05/08/08 0 comments

Fossils Add More Proof of Global Climate Shift: The Antarctic Dry Valleys are among the most extreme environments anywhere, so dry and windswept and barren that they are thought to be the closest analog to the surface of Mars. So imagine the surprise when, several years ago, Adam R. Lewis, a glacial geologist, and a colleague found what Dr. Lewis described as “freeze-dried fossils sticking out of the ground.” The well-preserved mosses were “completely out of place,” he said, and a sign the area was more like tundra long ago [click the title of this post to read the full article at the NY Times].
04/08/08 0 comments

Plans were unveiled in late July for three potential towers atop the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Click the title of this post to learn more, over at the Architect's Newspaper.
03/08/08 0 comments

Head on over to NPR's
On Point for a recent show on China, saving the Hutong, and the new book 'The Last Days of Old Beijing' by Michael Meyer - complete with an excerpt from the book, photos and more [click the title of this post to listen to the show].
01/08/08 0 comments

Will Hunter [of bdonline] discovers how OMA and Arup used metal structures in the astonishing design for the CCTV HQ in Beijing [click the title of this post to read the article].
31/07/08 0 comments

For those who find consolation in visionary architecture, this city [LA] has always been a powerful antidepressant. Its wealth of 20th-century treasures, mostly private homes, reminds us that it is possible to find quiet corners of enlightenment in dystopian times [click the title of this post to read the article at the NY Times].
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