A Worrisome Pileup of $100 Million Homes
“When you have a record number of homes for sale at a price point of $100 million or more, that tells you these homes aren’t selling,” said Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel Inc., a real...
View ArticleWHY QUASHING SHORT-TERM RENTALS IS A ZERO-SUM GAME FOR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
Seattle’s data-blind rush to regulate Airbnb is a recipe for unintended consequences.
View ArticleRestoring a Charles Rennie Mackintosh Architectural Gem From the Ashes
After two years of planning, preservation and debris removal, restoration on the Mackintosh is set to begin. ... After holding expert forums and an open hunt for architects, the school announced that...
View ArticleShould Seattle Be Building Tent Cities for the Homeless?
With a population of just over 2 million and 10,000 of them lacking permanent shelter, the county that encompasses Seattle has more homeless residents than any other major metropolitan region in the...
View ArticleMontreal Trades Expressway for “Urban Boulevard”
The Bonaventure Expressway, an elevated 11-lane highway built for Expo 67, will give way to the street-level Bonaventure urban boulevards, a combined nine lanes of traffic separated by a series of...
View ArticleWhat have they ever done for us? Ancient Rome today – in pictures
From film sets to salt mines, photographer Alfred Seiland has documented the remains of Roman culture around Europe.
View ArticleRio mayor Eduardo Paes: 'The Olympics are a missed opportunity for Brazil'
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, believes crisis-hit Brazil has missed the opportunity of the Olympic Games to showcase itself on the global stage – but in an interview with the Guardian,...
View ArticleReexamining The Cliches of a French Suburb Through a Health Clinic For Migrants
The 97-minute film takes place inside the shabby office of Jean-Pierre Geeraert, a doctor working at a walk-in health clinic for people without official papers, at the Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny, a...
View ArticleCFP: No Entry - Impenetrable Architecture in Medieval Art : Sessions at ICMS...
“The depicted door,” Jas Elsner has written of the fourth century Pola Casket, “is a kind of makebelieve that might open into the box or out of which the box’s contents might venture.” The doors of...
View ArticleCFP: Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art...
Gardens have been a crucial part in mythology and literature. Throughout English literature for example, the idea of a garden is a recurrent image; these images largely stem from the story of the...
View ArticleViolence Forces Police (and Architects) to See a City Anew
A mass shooting scenario changes the function of every object in the built environment. In a parking garage like the one where authorities say the deadly standoff between the Dallas shooter and police...
View Article'Acclaimed' architect Christopher Benninger re-launches book on architecture
One of India’s most acclaimed architects and urban planners Christopher Benninger’s book ‘Architecture for Modern India’ was launched to a wide reception at Balgandharv Rangmandir Auditorium. This...
View ArticleOrganizing for urban governance
India is one of the few countries to have had a separate ministry and minister for housing and urban poverty alleviation and for urban development. Further fragmentation of the urban portfolio across...
View ArticleDeborah Berke to convert New York prison into women's centre
New York firm Deborah Berke Partners has won a competition to transform a correctional facility into a permanent home for the girls' and women's rights movement in the city.
View ArticleCAG report criticises functioning of Kerala urban local bodies
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has flayed the functioning of Urban Local bodies (ULB) in Kerala over its poor maintenance of environmental hygiene. In its report on Local...
View ArticleCFP: Building the Outer Boroughs
Before they were the “outer boroughs,” the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island developed as cities, towns, and villages in their own right, independent of New York City. Though these so-called...
View ArticleDESIGN EDUCATION IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES - 23–24 September 2016, Helsinki,...
At the time of big changes in designer profession globally, the Nordic Forum for Design History Studies conference 2016 turns to examine design education. The conference aims to map the history of...
View ArticleDrawing: Research, Theory, Practice Volume 2 Issue 1 - Deadline 5th September...
Drawing Research, Theory, Practice (D.R.T.P.) promotes and disseminates contemporary drawing practice and research in its current cultural and disciplinary diversity.
View ArticleCritical Collaborations: Neutralizing Power in Art and Design History - 15-18...
A panel theme welcoming submissions from design historians and related fields.Chairs:
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