And what are the key elements of good design, Form, Function, Build ability, Economics and longevity. Contained with in these elements is mathematical correctness. We respond to the greater environment in relation to our own human scale. Architects still use them today, a gift from the ancient Greek ...
New York makes exceptionally little virtue out of the fact that it is surrounded by water. Most of the time, you have to remind yourself that Manhattan is an island. Say New York and you tend to think of its core: the Empire State building, the Chrysler, Central Park. Architecturally, all the city's ...
'Fidel Castro sent me that box of Havana cigars last week," says Oscar Niemeyer, looking dapper in blue linen trousers and black shirt with silver buttons. Holding court in his penthouse studio in Rio de Janeiro, this giant among architects continues: "And those boxing gloves next to it are ...
Eyal Weizman smooths out his map across his enormous desk and turns expectantly for a response. He knows it's impressive, just as he knows it's bewildering. The product of 11 months' labour in collaboration with the human rights organisation B'tselem, the Israeli architect has produced his own cartographic ...
In the gift shop of the museum of the First Emperor in Xian, an old man sits all day signing guide books. Above his head is a sign in Chinese characters. In translation, the sign reads: 'Mr Yang. The man who found the Terracotta Army'. Mr Yang, a thin, weathered man in his seventies, was an accidental ...
The architect with the winning design to rebuild the World Trade Centre site is embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute with the property developer who owns a lease on the site, as artistic vision clashes with the commercial demands of prime real estate.
The architect, Daniel Libeskind, yesterday ...
German chancellor Gerhard Schröder's new office - which critics liken to a giant washing machine - scooped Germany's most prestigious architectural prize last night.
The vast glass and concrete chancellery in Berlin was named Germany's most outstanding new building of the past two years, despite ...
Not since the biblical era have we been prone to so many visions. To judge from the number of documents that land on my desk each week concerning politics, urban planning and architecture, this is truly an age of great visionaries. It is not simply major modern prophets such as George Bush and his fellow ...
The Palm Jumeirah is the smallest of the three Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira). It is located on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The unique man-made island is built in the shape of a date palm tree and consists of a trunk, ...
A hundred times have I thought New York a catastrophe ... a beautiful catastrophe." Those were the words of the great architect Le Corbusier, awestruck by the Manhattan skyline long before the World Trade Centre's twin towers soared 411 metres (1,350ft) above Wall Street.
Sure, individual buildings ...
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