Begleitprogramm zur Ausstellung „Schulbau und dergleichen – der...
Das Israel Jacobson Netzwerk für jüdische Kultur und Geschichte e.V. (IJN) zeigt noch bis zum 24. Mai 2017 (Mo-Fr 13-17 Uhr, Eintritt frei) in Kooperation mit den Museen des Landkreises Gifhorn, der...
View ArticleAn Irreverent Performance of Naked Dancers Dressed as Iconic Buildings
The ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is home to a number of stepped temples that have ominously towered over the jungle for centuries. On a recent evening at the Guggenheim Museum, however, one...
View ArticleEerie Photographs of Solitary Cars in 1970s New York
Taken between 1974 and 1976, Langdon Clay’s photographs of the New York City streets have the luminous loneliness of an Edward Hopper painting. Instead of capturing some solitary souls in the Manhattan...
View ArticleWorks by John Yeon, the godfather of Pacific Northwest modernism, go on view...
John Yeon (1910-1994) was a godfather of Pacific Northwest architecture. His 1937 Watzek House garnered international attention when the Museum of Modern Art included it in the 1939 book Art of Our...
View ArticleRIBA responds positively to Corbyn's new manifesto for Labour
....The Royal British Institute for Architects (RIBA) has released a statement that, by and large, praises the manifesto. In particular, they commend the commitment to building 100,000 council and...
View ArticleHudco lists at 22% premium to issue price
Update at 12.03 AM: Hudco was trading firm, at 72.50, up 20.83 percent. Related stocks such as Indiabulls Housing Finance (down 1.54 percent at Rs 1,038) and LIC Housing Finance up 0.94 percent at Rs...
View ArticleRIBA responds to Conservatives Manifesto
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has responded to the publication of the Conservatives manifesto, published earlier today."The RIBA welcomes the Conservatives’ acknowledgment that the...
View ArticleRIBA responds to Liberal Democrats Manifesto
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has responded to the publication of the Liberal Democrats manifesto, published earlier today.
View ArticleProceeds of Hudco IPO will go to government: M Ravi Kanth, Hudco
In a chat with ET Now, M Ravi Kanth, CMD, Hudco, says many proposals are coming for housing and there may be a shift of up to 40% towards housing if Hudco goes for retail housing.
View ArticleDraft National Urban Rental Housing Policy 2017: Not-so-strong foundation for...
The Centre’s role as a ‘facilitator’ or ‘enabler’ that will merely extend fiscal and non-fiscal concessions for rental housing created by the state, provision for no central funding are some of the...
View ArticleBusinesses battle over Trump's review of national monuments
Industries like fishing and logging argue against the designation of national monuments.Tourism-centered industries, however, say national monuments are good for their business.Interior Secretary Ryan...
View ArticleBehind the Black Architectural Resistance
In April 1968, black Columbia University students took over five campus buildings during a week-long rebellion. Among those buildings was Avery Hall, where Columbia’s School of Architecture was...
View ArticleIndian Railways end ‘cannibalism’ to save Darjeeling toy train’s heritage tag
The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) will be signing the ‘death warrant’ of this practice on Friday through an agreement with a public sector undertaking for supplying new ‘antique’ spares to revive a...
View ArticleUrban beasts: how wild animals have moved into cities
....Are cities the new nature reserves? This isn’t as tenuous a question as it sounds. Some animals may be safer among urban populations, which are more sentimental about animals and more squeamish...
View ArticleWho Profits From Poverty?
Matthew Desmond's ethnographic study has received critical praise. But David Adler asks whether the book's approach tacitly lets affluent non-landlords off the hook.Matthew Desmond's Pulitzer-winning...
View ArticleIn Putin's Moscow, an Urban Wilderness Emerges
At their hangar-like office in Manhattan, the architects Liz Diller and Charles Renfro click through a slideshow displaying enormous, fantastically shaped structures embedded into a hilly landscape....
View ArticleSrinagar Smart City – What people really want
Some time back the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) decided to rope in the service of a consultancy company to make a bid for the inclusion into the government of India’s Smart City Mission. As of...
View ArticleSidewalk Labs May Build a High-Tech City District From Scratch in Toronto
Downtown Toronto could be getting a “smart city” development from Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Bloomberg Technology reports.
View ArticlePier Luigi Nervi and Australia: Outback Modernism Exhibition
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) was Italy’s most influential modern architect-engineer, internationally renowned for his use of curving concrete forms, soaring arches and V- or Y-profiles. He was as a...
View ArticleIn a First, IIT Kharagpur to Use 3D Planning to make Varanasi a 'Futuristic...
Kolkata: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K), along with British Geological Survey, has taken up the initiative to turn one of India’s oldest cities and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
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