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Holistic Reality: Mumbai’s Cybertecture Egg

Posted in Architecture, News Ink, Peoples' Places, Super-Architecture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »

India has been on world architecture news for a while now. Antilla has hardly left the headlines,  Cybertecture Egg has already taken a place on top.
Talk of intelligent design- this building will surpass all that fall in this category. You will see it built by 2010.
The concept. The concept was inspired by considering the world [...]

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At $3 Billion GM Building is Most Valuable in the World

Posted in Architecture, Discussion, Landmark, News Ink, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

$3 billion-one, $3 billion-two, and $3 billion- its is. A building to sell for $3 billion does sound insane but this insanity is nearing to become a reality. Larry Silverstein, developer of ground zero, has bid $3 billion for General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue, in the Manhattan District in New York.
Indeed, with [...]

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Johnson is In- Gehry is Out; Jon Jerde is In- Gehry is Out

Posted in Architecture, Discussion, Historic Preservation, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This week in news we find two of Frank Gehry’s projects declared obsolete- Winton Guest House in Minnesota, and Santa Monica Place mall in Santa Monica.
In early 2007, the University of California, Irvine, razed one of his buildings—a computer science center—to make way for a new engineering complex, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported at the [...]

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When Economy Drives Design

Posted in Architecture, Culture, Discussion, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Is it fair for one architect to design 36 hotels in a prestigious urban district like Manhattan, especially when New York is home to some of the finest architects and designers of the world?
Architect Gene Kaufman is designing 36 hotels in Manhattan, including three that will share a single building on West 39th Street near [...]

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Green and Intelligent: the roads do converge

Posted in Architecture, Green Architecture, News Ink, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

United Kingdom- Gensler’s design for Herman Miller’s international headquarters, also called Village Green, has been short listed for Corenet’s 2008 Sustainability award and is the first building in the UK to receive both BREEAM (excellent rating) and LEED (gold) accreditation. The 20,000-square foot facility is located in Chippenham, England.

Several notable details that make Village [...]

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A step closer to a green world

Posted in Green Architecture, tagged , , , , , on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The architecture profession is experiencing a change in the way it perceives the built environment. The ‘Go-Green’ movement is catching up, as the architects and designers understand their responsibilities towards future, and have become aware of their role in easing the world’s energy related problems.

Architecture in design has many active and passive solutions and ideas [...]

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