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Entries Tagged as ‘architecture/urbanism’
January 10, 2008
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January 7, 2008
Visit The Louvre and it’s free!
For a change the French are imitating arch-rival Britain by introducing a free admission policy to 18 French national museums including The Louvre (above), in a bid to encourage more French people to visit them. (I suppose they are so busy with food and fashion, that they have forgotten all about the museums). Normally the entre [...]
January 7, 2008
Foster+Partners’ projects in China, Russia and Middle East
Living Wall in Jordan, the high-rise buildings will rise out this quarry-looking space.
Russia Tower in Moscow will be Europe’s tallest tower and another ’sustainable’ architecture project.
Pushkin Museum extension in Moscow
Central Market in Abu Dhabi (left) & Abu Dhabi Plaza in Astana, Kazakhstan (right) reinterpret the traditional market places with cutting-edge technology.
Khanty Mansiysk in Siberia, another futuristic [...]
January 5, 2008
Norman Foster’s Crystal Island in Moscow
Top: Entertainment Centre, Kazakhstan
Below: Crystal Island, Moscow
Is Moscow trying to overtake Dubai as the capital of superlative architecture? I’m not sure where this Russian money has suddenly come from (you’re always hearing stories of Russian billionaires and tycoons flashing their stash of cash) and now they have enlisted none other than Sir Norman Foster to design- [...]
January 4, 2008
New RTA HQ in Dubai by Zwarts & Jansma Architects
Dutch architect firm Zwarts & Jansma Architects have won the competition to design the new headquarters of the Road & Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai. RTA HQ will be built on an artificial lake on Marrakech Road in the Al Garhoud area, adjacent to the Business Bay Bridge and neighbouring the new interchange of Rabat Road.
RTA HQ will [...]
January 3, 2008
The Omnia redesigned by Ali Tayar
New York-based architect Ali Tayar has redesigned The Omnia hotel in Zermatt, Switzerland. Tayar conceived the 30-room boutique hotel as an avant-garde contemporary American mountain lodge in the Swiss Alps, furnished with some of the greatest 20th century design classics by Mies Van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen amongst others.
January 2, 2008
Ettore Sottsass dies aged 90
Prominent Italian architect-designer Ettore Sottsass passed away on New Year’s Eve aged 90 at his home in Milan. Sottsass, one of the most influential designers of the 20th century will be best remembered for founding the Memphis Movement and designing the red plastic Olivetti typewriter that is now considered a design icon.
January 2, 2008
Fashion and architecture
Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture is back with a new installation, venue and different designers. The exhibition that will open in April 2008 will feature Vivienne Westwood, Alexander Mcqueen and Hussein Chalayan among other designers and will focus on the visual and conceptual similarities between fashion and architecture since the 80s. The architecture [...]
December 31, 2007
New Year greetings from Atelier Hapsitus
Beirut-based internationally-known architect Nadim Karam and his studio have sent this beautiful greeting, which I must share with everyone. When I interviewed Karam who is also an acclaimed artist, earlier this year at International Design Forum, I asked him why a well-known architect and artist like him wouldn’t want to practice in Europe or other more well-established places. He said he [...]
December 31, 2007
Cool hotels-part II
Here are some more cool hotels that are on my list for 2008.
Top: Dar Beida is a restored Moroccan House and is undoubtedly is one of the coolest places to stay in the hippie-chic town of Essaouira overlooking the Atlantic ocean, where Jimi Hendrix wrote the hit song Castles in the sand. The house-turned-hotel has been [...]
