New York always deserves (and gets) the best of all, and here is another one! The new 52-story building between 40th and 41st Streets, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, is a new icon in New York. Piano says his goal was to create a skyscraper that embodies sustainability and craftsmanship. You can [...]
Architect Bernard Tschumi’s Blue condominium tower located on the Lower East Side, New York. Designed with an original envelope pattern sets the structure apart from surrounding buildings, thus adding a bit of an eclectic attitude to a normally dreary skyline. I guess it looks better in the architect’s rendering
One of my friends sent me the below mail with a note saying: ” Does it sound familiar?” It is very funny, and somewhat true… I feel bad about “our friends”, or maybe I should feel bad about ourselves!!! Take a deep breath and enjoy life…
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects’ Journal and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.
It might sound ridiculous, but it is funny! One of my friends sent it to me, and I couldn’t help but share it with you. This is for all architecture and movie geeks out there. Get your popcorn and enjoy!
I have seen this hilarious article in Digital Survivors by Scott Manning. Some of the observations are so funny, and most of them are true! Clients are always demanding doesn’t matter which industry you are working on. Relax, sit back and enjoy the article…
Every building has an architect, either good or, let’s say, not-so-good… There are some architects you cannot separate them from their designs, and their designs from them. I have seen these caricatures in a Turkish web site which explain exactly this point. If you want to see Mario Botta, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Mies Van [...]
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 [...]
This volume, now also available in paperback, inaugurates a new Electaarchitecture series on residential architecture and presents an illustrated portfolio of 20 innovative, talked-about houses built around the world during the past decade by both celebrated architects and emerging young designers.
First published in 1943 this novel, by Ayn Rand, became an instant classic. It is the story of a brilliant young architect whose unwavering integrity results in a violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. If you haven’ read it yet, you should [...]
