Burj Dubai, now also called the Burj Khalifa, opened officially to the world yesterday.
The launch of the world’s tallest sky-scraper is being seen as a symbol of Dubai’s hopes to get over its economic troubles and restore its charm as a business hub.
Standing 2,717 feet (more than a half-mile) tall, the Burj Dubai has been [...]
With the world’s highest level of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest market in the world by floor space, building “green” is becoming the architectural trend in China.
“A few years ago, sustainable design was not quite focused and was not seriously considered in most developments,” said William Wong, associate director of the Hong Kong office [...]
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s architectural history department announces January and February lectures in its continuing series.
The architectural history lectures are free and open to the public.
“Poplar Forest: Thomas Jefferson’s Continued Pursuit of Architectural Happiness,” by Travis McDonald, director of architectural restoration at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, will take place January 19, 2010.
Following [...]
Sixty-five-year-old Adrian Smith, a Chicago-based architect has designed the Burj Dubai, the silvery, heat-deflecting skyscraper that rises to more than 2,600 feet.
The Burj is taller than two of Chicago’s own skyscrapers – John Hancock Centre and Willis Tower – stacked atop each other.
“I was always interested in height. The Burj is like a sand [...]
he Burj Dubai, by far the tallest building in the world, will open as planned next month in its namesake city. It has topped out four stories taller than half a mile high—2,684 feet—a chilling figure that was known to very few until it was reached. The tower’s Chicago-based architect, Adrian Smith, confided three years [...]
When Michigan State University sought out architects to design its new Eli and Edythe broad art museum, Zaha Hadid may have been a bold choice. The British Iraqi designer has a unique sensibility when it comes to form and function that is not typical of traditionalist viewers.
After months of financial and conventional debate, the [...]
Noted Architect Frank Gehry – world renowned for his unique designs on buildings like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain – will design a new $800 million hotel, housing and performing arts complex in New York’’s theater district.
In addition to providing sustainable, low-income housing in a chic area of the city, the 59-story Signature [...]
The Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious exhibitions in modern architecture. Each year, the event showcases the finest works of architects representing countries across the globe, and for the second year in a row the University of Waterloo will serve as the Canadian representative in the momentous presentation.
Philip Berkely, an architecture professor at [...]
The Austin Art Alliance, a co-op of national and international artists and designers, is holding a Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space ideas competition. The competition, the groups third such event, is part of a larger partnership among local design groups including the Austin Foundation for Architecture and AIA designed to stir interest in the architecture field.
Designers [...]
Construction has slowed to a trickle, design firms are laying off employees and the Big Plans of a few years back – iconic museums! stratospheric towers! – are gathering the digital equivalent of dust on the shelf.
Instead of gravity-defying drama, think empty lots.
It was an era when architecture became hotter and hipper than ever, yet [...]
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