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National Architecture Week 2011 – Connect. Check in. Celebrate. April 10 – 16, 2011
National Architecture Week is a public awareness campaign from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) dedicated to increasing attention to the role architects play as a force for positive change in our communities and to elevate the public’s appreciation of design. Similar to previous years’ observances, National Architecture Week will be virtual and will be
China’s Ping-Pong Paddle Hotel
China is set to build a hotel shaped like an upside-down ping-pong paddle as part of a new $45.8 million sports complex. The China Daily newspaper reports rounded guestroom windows will resemble the surface texture of a table tennis racket, while the “handle” of the 500-foot hotel will be an observation deck, allowing tourists to
Old Buildings, New Life
Retrofitting commercial buildings is quickly becoming the growth market in the building industry. The shift from building new commercial spaces was bound to turn from erecting sparkling new mega-buildings on greenfields to retrofitting run-down but still valuable older buildings in good locations close to transportation or other amenities. No one knows this better than the
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects chosen to design PetroVietnam headquarters
New Haven, Conn. — Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects will design a new headquarters for Vietnam’s national oil and gas company, creating a landmark development in Hanoi. PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation, a subsidiary of PetroVietnam Oil and Gas Group, selected the firm following an international competition. The project is expected to break ground by the
Local Events Highlight National Landscape Architecture Month
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–From a newly created traveling park in San Diego to the New Jersey Governor’s office, local chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will volunteer in their communities, reach out to schools and educate the public this April during National Landscape Architecture Month. In addition, the entire April issue of Landscape Architecture
Obama appoints Schlossberg to federal arts panel [that oversees architecture]
President Barack Obama has appointed Edwin Schlossberg, an interactive media designer and husband of Caroline Kennedy, to serve on a federal panel that helps oversee the architecture and design of the nation’s capital. The White House announced the appointment Tuesday night for the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts among other diplomatic and cultural posts. Schlossberg
Latest ArchiteXts Cartoon – “Owned”
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The Better Way to Know if a Building Is Green
An exhibit at the American Institute of Architects headquarters shows off the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system The architecture firm Farr Associates, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the U.S. Green Building Council have produced a fantastic exhibit on how to create green neighborhoods. It opened in Chicago last year and is now on display
Portugal’s Eduardo Souto de Moura Wins 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Portugal’s Eduardo Souto de Moura, who has designed soccer stadiums, museums and office towers in his home country, is the winner of this year Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor for architects. Among his best-known buildings are the soccer stadium in Braga, Portugal, where European soccer teams fought for the championship in 2004; and
This looks like a job for Frank Gehry
YOU build it, will they come? That’s the basic question motivating plans to develop grand culture centres in otherwise derelict urban neighbourhoods. The idea is savvy: hire architects to build something beautiful (or at least something big), and then let the related businesses follow. This approach to urban rejuvenation—dubbed the “Bilbao effect” after Frank Gehry’s
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