This Singapore Building Is Home To The 'Office Of The Future'
Singapore is home to the first retrofitted zero-energy building in southeast Asia. Zero energy means a building is able to create more energy than it uses. Located on the campus of the BCA Academy,...
View ArticleArt Critic Explains Why London's Shard Is A Failure
The eminent curator Norman Rosenthal had his say on the Shard this week. To Rosenthal, it is the most beautiful building put up in London since St Paul's and its critics – he quotes me and Simon...
View ArticleNow The Games Are Almost Over, London's Olympic Construction Is Getting Ready...
With the London Olympic Games reaching their conclusion this weekend, we'll soon forget about medal counts and be able to ask yet again — have the Olympics been a good investment for London? One big...
View ArticleSomeday We Could Build A Skyscraper Taller Than Mount Everest
The race is always on. Within the span of just two years, the world's tallest building was built three times in New York City – the 282.5-meter Bank of Manhattan in 1930, the 319-meter Chrysler...
View ArticleArchitect Says What She Learned From Dennis Hopper In Las Vegas
What first drew you to architecture? I left school at 16 to go to art school, and then felt embarrassed about not doing A-levels. So I started reading a lot about the history of art. Through those...
View ArticleSave This Classic Frank Lloyd Wright House Before It's Too Late
Conservationists are battling to declare the David and Gladys Wright House in Arizona a landmark before it is destroyed forever. Back in June, developer 8081 Meridian paid $1.8 million for the Phoenix...
View ArticleLondon's Future Airport Could Float On The Thames
The debate over how to prepare London for rising air traffic has been going on for several years, and shows no signs of concluding. The Department for Transport estimates that demand for air travel in...
View ArticleThe New 6-Sided Museum Of Contemporary Art In Cleveland Is Absolutely Surreal
The Museum of Contemporary Art In Cleveland has been brought into the 21st century with its new six-sided building, which opened last week. The building is made of mirrored black stainless steel,...
View ArticleArchitecture Firm Wants To Build This Crazy, Futuristic Halo Above Grand...
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an architect firm with offices here in New York, has proposed a futuristic-looking halo to be suspended between two buildings over Grand Central Station as part of an...
View ArticlePark Your Yacht In The Front Yard At This Incredible New House in Poland
What's a luxury house without the ultimate parking space? We've shown you the Singapore high-rise that allows you to park your car in the living room, but this Yacht House by Polish architecture firm...
View ArticleNYT Critic Trashes The 'Hunchbacked, Brooding' Barclays Center
The New York Times architecture critic has finally weighed in on the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and he's not impressed.Michael Kimmelman held off on reviewing the stadium until he had a chance to...
View ArticleThe Future Of Restaurants Depends On Design As Much As Food
In the new era of fusion cooking and globe-trotting chefs, what makes or breaks a restaurant is not necessarily the food. It's the design.After all, it's the architect's decision on things like decor,...
View ArticleThe World's Most Mysterious Buildings
Mysteries come in many forms: ancient, modern, unsolved, and unexplained. But the world’s most mysterious buildings are a physical force to be reckoned with.They’ve become popularized on websites like...
View ArticleThe 25 Coolest New Buildings Of The Year
It has been a phenomenal year in the world of architecture, with architects and engineers pushing the boundaries of innovation and design.Click here to go straight to the buildings >Moscow's Mercury...
View ArticleThe Awesome Architecture Of Frank Gehry
Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry is the genius behind some of the world's most unique buildings, from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Spain.In...
View ArticleVISUALIZED: See The Coolest Buildings Of 2012
From New York City's Freedom Tower to Singapore's Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, we've found the coolest buildings of 2012. We took into account innovation, creativity, structure,...
View ArticleThe Otherworldly Architecture Of Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid has been a pioneer in the field of architecture, becoming the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize (the Nobel Prize of her field) in 2004.Hadid, who was born in Iraq in 1950,...
View ArticleA Frank Lloyd Wright Cottage On A Private Island Is On Sale For $19.9 Million
When renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright began designing what is now known as the Massaro house on Petra Island, he told the owner of Fallingwater, another one of his iconic homes, "When I finish the...
View ArticleWhy China's Plan To Build The World's Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days Is 'Madness'
Earlier this year, a Chinese construction company announced plans to build a new "world's tallest skyscraper," an 838-meter highrise in Changsha.It also promised to complete the building, called Sky...
View ArticleAn Architect's Mirrored Mansion With A Complicated Past Is Back On The Market...
The glassy New York City home the late architect Paul Rudolph designed for himself is back on the market for $27.5 million, according to Curbed.23 Beekman Place, which is comprised of four units — a...
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