Indebted Canadians using 'homes as ATMs,' consumer agency warns
OTTAWA, June 7 (Reuters) - Canadians are borrowing against their homes in increasing numbers and many are not making regular payments against the principal, adding financial stress to households...
View ArticleHow Terrorism and Poor Urban Planning Have Led Istanbul to 'De-Gentrify'
Istanbul's central Beyoğlu district experienced sweeping gentrification throughout the 2000s, as its popularity increased among locals and a boom in tourism brought more and more visitors. But a...
View ArticleWilliam Krisel, Architect Who Found a Midcentury Niche, Dies at 92
William Krisel, who designed captivating but economical tract housing that enabled real estate developers in the Sun Belt to market modern architecture to the masses in the 1950s and ’60s, died on...
View ArticleThe Dark Architecture of the National Security State
The NSA dominated headlines this week after The Intercept published agency documents on June 5 that detailed Russian efforts to hack the 2016 election.
View ArticleUnusual High-Rise Design Gets Go-Ahead in Portland
In 2015, Minneapolis unveiled plans for a 7-story office building in the North Loop section of the city. There was little remarkable about the announcement — except the primary building material: timber.
View ArticleeCAADe2017 - Call for Workshop Proposal
The eCAADe 2017 Organizing Committee would like to invite researchers, professionals, designers and industry practitioners to propose and organize interesting workshops to build up an intense...
View ArticleNo science? No B.Arch!
Henceforth, no more non-science students can study architecture as the Council of Architecture (CoA) has revised the eligiblility criteria by making 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Math mandatory...
View ArticleHyderabad Habitat Centre project put on hold
Hyderabad: The much-talked about Hyderabad Habitat Centre (HHC) project modelled after the India Habitat Centre at New Delhi which was to come up at Izzatnagar is now put on hold. It is more than three...
View ArticleConstruction of IHC building: Unregistered firm gets consultancy job for Rs...
The Architects-Studio Tariq Hassan who are consultant of under-construction building of Islamabad High Court, a Rs 2.8 billion mega project, are neither registered nor enlisted with Pakistan...
View ArticleSmart Cities Mission Violate Human Rights, says HLRN Study
The Centre has failed to adopt an inclusionary and sustainable approach to development under its much publicized Smart Cities Mission which aims to create 100 `smart cities’ in the country by 2020, a...
View ArticleRethinking India's Slum Resettlement Policy
According to the UN, the share of urban Indians living in slums is 24 percent—about 100 million people. India’s government, in an attempt to rectify this situation, has made it a policy to give land to...
View ArticleA Guide to Architects' Mundane and Monumental Graves
While Goff’s gravestone, through its shape and material, references his organic modernist work, many of the sites in Kuehn’s book are indistinct, plain, or sometimes nonexistent. Charles and Ray Eames,...
View ArticleCan 'Reinvent Paris 2' Rise Above Its Bad Reputation?
Is Paris City Hall ready to give the contest an honest effort? Reinvent Paris 2 is the second round of a competition whose first outing’s results were far from impressive, pervaded as they were by a...
View ArticleLinguist, architect named A.D. White Professors-at-Large
Vernacular language scholar John Rickford and Indian architect and educator Brinda Somaya have been named Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large for six-year terms effective July 1.The appointments...
View ArticleCEPT University opens more seats for students of other boards, states
Beginning this academic year, city-based CEPT University will admit 50% students from across the country in the Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Interior Design and Bachelor of Construction...
View ArticleMultiple transit projects across U.S at risk as White House infrastructure...
Instead of funding many of the existing projects that depend on federal money — a practice that officials say they worry is wasteful — the administration says it wants to move toward a version of...
View ArticleConstructions not complying with development regulations
Constructions across the country are not complying with the Development Control regulations (DCR).At the eighth engineers’, architects’ and planners’ conference, urban planner with the department of...
View ArticleArchitecture Film Festival London 2017: From Above + Discussion
A curated selection of seven short films from the Architecture Film Festival London 2017 Competition, asking how films about our built environment could open up a discussion of what it means to see, or...
View ArticleChina’s New Megacity: The Anti-Beijing
Ma Tianjie of Foreign Policy reports on the planned development of a new mega-city recently announced by the Chinese government in one of Beijing's neighboring provinces. The hope with Xiong’an New...
View ArticleIs architecture alive? Many losses go unreported and unrealised by rescuers...
In a friendly confrontation with a group of architects the other day, I asked a question: ‘Is architecture dead in the sense that you were all advocating it until a few years ago?’ The answer came as...
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