Fireworks go off seconds before the implosion of the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. It was imploded to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.’s $4.4 billion mega resort complex, Echelon Place. If it isn’t steel or concrete, it’s being removed from the shuttered Stardust hotel tower.
On March 15, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. will present Women in Architecture: Histories, Herstories, Reappraising the Legacy of American Architecture in honor of women’s history month. The discussion will tackle several topics, including recovering the lost histories of 20th-century architecture, creating criteria to evaluate architecture, and how women architects can conceive and [...]
As an architect and amateur cook/baker, this article got my attention right away. You can also visit my blog that is dedicated to cooking and baking here. Architects often design the accessories of eating – dishware, glasses, cutlery, dining tables and chairs – so perhaps it was inevitable that they would eventually take on the [...]
This is a drawing that we are all accustomed to in daily bases. Check out the next photo that shows how it has been built. Can you believe this actually happened? How can a person who is working on-site can make such a mistake? Hard to understand, but true! Think twice next time you locate [...]
At 8:00 am this morning Architecture for Humanity launched the beta version of the Open Architecture Network, which I have been watching closely. It will be a gathering place for community designers and all those interested in improving the built environment.
I had seen the concept images, and never thought it would ever be built. When I saw the news tonight, I was shocked. They did built the so-called “sky walk”. I have been to Grand Canyon’s both south and north rims couple of times, and every time I was mesmerized by the beauty of it. [...]
“My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of service, I hope, are not. In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of president of the United States. But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.”
During Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2007, which will be held April 18-23 in Milan, Turkish furniture company Nurus will bring together innovative Turkish designers with “Ilk in Milano” a collaborative effort featuring unique designs and products. The exhibition aims to provide an experience with “the Turkish touch in design.” It will be accompanied by a [...]
Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms.
Yesterday I went to the “Skin + Bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California. For more information about the exhibit see below. The photo is Shigeru Ban’s Curtain Wall House by Shigeru Ban Architects in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan 1995. Photo © Hiroyuki Hirai.
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development by world famous architect Zaha Hadid.
