Glass: Material Matters
This was a fascinating exhibit about glass that I had a chance to visit. Glass is part of our daily lives and most of the time we don’t even notice it! Glass: Material Matters is the first exhibition...
View Article20 Houses by Twenty Architects
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...
View ArticleSkin + Bones
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...
View ArticleSeattle Public Library
I spent 4 hours in the Seattle Public Library that didn’t involve reading! It is a great building, every corner and every level has a different view. You never know what to expect when you turn a...
View ArticlePhare Tower, France
Morphosis won the International Competition for the design of the “Phare�? Tower (Lighthouse), the centerpiece of a redevelopment in the business district, La Défense, just outside of Paris. Mayne beat...
View ArticlePlanning for 8.8.8
Beijing is getting ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics which will start on August 8, 2008. New buildings are under construction, service system is getting better, roads are re-paved, and shortly the...
View ArticleCCTV on Fire
Monday evening just before midnight, when Chinese were celebrating the Lantern Festival, fire consumed a building in Beijing that formed part of Central China Television’s new headquarters. Initial...
View ArticleArchitects at the end of 2009
Another year is almost over. How did we, architects, do in the last decade? Did we accomplish our objectives? Did we give anything back to the society? Or did we all get sucked up in the “system”? Here...
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