News from EYP.PH via Yahoo! Philippines News - 07/19/2011
Artful Abode
Shopping for furniture? Moroso helps us modernize our home through its innovative designer furniture. Famous for its high quality pieces, world-class workmanship, and innovative design, Italian furniture store Moroso was founded by Agostino and Diana Moroso in 1952.
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News from Independent - 07/02/2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavilions, By Philip Jodidio
The opening of the 11th annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on Friday marked what has become a celebrated event in London's summer diary.
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News from Independent - 05/06/2011
The Hedonist: Tokyo
It would easily win an award for the world's speediest hotel check-in. Before my white-gloved taxi driver even hands me my change, a smiling face appears at the door: "Ms Demetriou? Welcome!"
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News from Property Guru via Yahoo! Malaysia News - 04/19/2011
Market Street Car Park to be converted into office tower
CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT), along with CapitaLand, plans to redevelop Singapore's oldest multi-storey carpark — Market Street Car Park (MSCP) — into a Grade A office tower for an estimated S$1.4 billion, or S$1,900 psf of net lettable area (NLA).
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News from The Edge Singapore - 04/18/2011
CapitaCommercial Trust, CapitaLand to jointly redevelop Market Street Car Park into Grade A ...
CapitaCommercial Trust and CapitaLand saya they intend to jointly redevelop Market Street Car Park into Grade A office tower for $1.4 billion. As owner of the property, CapitaCommercial Trust says it has obtained provisional permission from Urban Redevelopment Authority and received an indication from Singapore Land Authority of the differential premium which would be payable for the property’s ...
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 03/23/2011
The Hidden Beauty of Japan's Black Swan
A Black Swan event is a metaphor used to explain a disproportionate, hard to predict event that is beyond the realm of normal expectation in history, science, finance and technology. Coined by epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book " The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable", perhaps there is no more apt metaphor to describe the macabre ballet of destruction that has ...
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News from Architect Magazine - 03/15/2011
Hitoshi Abe on Japan: "My Feeling Is the Worst Has Not Yet Come"
Hitoshi Abe, chairman of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, talks about Japan, and his hometown of Sendai, after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 03/14/2011
Video: Violent shaking but no real destruction at Toyo Ito's Mediatheque in Sendai
Earthquake-wracked Sendai is home to Toyo Ito's 2001 Mediatheque building, a multipurpose cultural center and one of Japan's -- and the world's -- most significant pieces of contemporary architecture. This video appears to have been shot by someone taking shelter...
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News from E-Hospitality.com - 02/09/2011
Spain's Porta Fira Hotel Selects VingCard Elsafe For Its Cutting-Edge Technology And Sleek Design
VingCard Elsafe, a leading hospitality security provider and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, recently completed the installation of its Signature electronic door locks and Sentinel II by Elsafe in-room safes at the Porta Fira Hotel in Barcelona, Spain
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News from Hospitality Net - 02/07/2011
Spain’s Porta Fira Hotel Selects VingCard Elsafe for Its Cutting-Edge Technology and Sleek Design
VingCard Elsafe, a leading hospitality security provider and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, recently completed the installation of its Signature electronic door locks and Sentinel II by Elsafe in-room safes at the Porta Fira Hotel in Barcelona, Spain. Located in Hospitalet de Llobregat in the city of Barcelona, the 320-room hotel property is in front of the Fira 2 with easy access to downtown ...
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News from The Star - 01/29/2011
Setting trends
EVERYBODY should use the colours they want, or so says renowned Swedish colour expert Per Nimer. It’s up to the colour experts to know what people want and to help them make good choices.
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News from Architectural Record - 01/26/2011
Newsmaker: Fumihiko Maki
During his many decades practicing architecture, Fumihiko Maki has accrued an impressive collection of awards, including the Pritzker Prize (1993) and Japan’s Praemium Imperiale (1999). Now, the American Institute of Architects has announced that this year’s Gold Medal will honor the esteemed architect, known for such projects as the Sam Fox School of Design and MIT Media Lab.
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News from The Australian - 01/16/2011
Towering designs for harbour city
WHEN Frank Gehry came to Sydney to present his draft ideas for the new business school at UTS last June, the university went utterly giddy.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 12/16/2010
Lancaster's Clear Channel Stadium and other sports arenas going solar
Take me out to the ballgame -– to see all the solar panels at the stadium. At least that’s the refrain in Lancaster, where panels will go up at Clear Channel Stadium, home of the Class-A JetHawks minor league baseball...
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 11/22/2010
UC Berkeley vows to build museum despite finances
Even as financially strapped UC Berkeley is preparing to raise tuition 8 percent next fall, it has pledged to spend as much as $20 million in campus funds to help build a $96 million art museum. Just where $20 million...
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News from Business Wire - 11/19/2010
World Expo and Flora Expo: Taipei Perfect in City Diplomacy
TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Expo and Flora Expo: Taipei perfect in city diplomacy
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News from EARTHtimes.org - 10/12/2010
Sophia Loren, Rebecca Horn receive Japan's Praemium Imperiale
Tokyo - The five laureates of Japan's 2010 Praemium Imperiale award Tuesday expressed their joy over being awarded the prestigious culture prize. The recipients are Italian actress Sophia Loren, German sculptor Rebecca Horn, Italian musician Maurizio Pollini, Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Italian painter Enrico Castellani.
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News from The Huffington Post - 10/11/2010
Guy Horton: At Home in Manhattan: Park51 as Global Architecture
Park51 has been called many things, but to call it Superman's Fortress of Solitude, as in a recent AP article, is both misleading and condescending....
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News from Independent - 10/10/2010
Shrines to shopping
The French architectural superstar Jean Nouvel has just unveiled his latest building, an enormous three-storey H&M shop on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
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News from The Japan Times - 10/02/2010
Architect triumphs in defeat
Very much so. In Japan, people use the term hakomono ("box-style") architecture as a derogatory term to refer in particular to the many public museums that were built during the bubble economy in the late 1980s. I started wondering to myself why they would call architecture that they don't like "box-style," and I decided it was because the buildings generally didn't have pitched or otherwise ...
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