The Circle – Zurich Flughafen
I love my Flughafen, aka airport. Noooo, I am not crazy, or totally lost my mind. Keep reading please, and you will agree. Do you know how many times it saved my life on Sundays? No one wants to start the Sunday with a sentence such as “Ooppsss, no eggs for breakfast honey!” or “Ahhh [...]
The City of Dreams Pavilion Competition
January 15, 2010, NEW YORK, NY. FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has joined forces with The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for [...]
La Philharmonie de Paris
One of this month’s earlier posts, ArkitecTrue announced French architect Jean Nouvel had won a competition to design the new Philharmonie de Paris building at Parc de La Villette in the French capital. The aluminum-clad building — which in a model, drawings and
The best design products 2007
The winners of the red dot award, one of the largest and most renowned international design competitions, have been chosen. From the absolute record number of 2,548 submitted products, which had been sent to Essen for assessment by the experts, a total of 43 top products have received the ‘red dot: best of the best’ [...]
Tomorrow’s Garden City
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and North Hertfordshire Homes, in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects, are delighted to promote “Tomorrow’s Garden City: A Sustainable Approach to Modern Living”.
Europan 9
Today, Monday 5 February, 2007 the ninth session of Europan is launched. The generic theme of Europan 9 – European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces – specifically involves collaboration with the cities and urban developers in the organizing countries. Indeed, the ultimate aim of the European vision of the city is to make [...]
