President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Russia has completed organizational work for building facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics and is ready to begin construction, Russian news agencies reported.
Putin made the assessment during a meeting with the presidential sports council in Sochi, the Black Sea resort city where the games are to be held.
“A long-term [...]
Thousands of South Asian construction workers went on strike Sunday over harsh working conditions in the latest threat to a spectacular building boom already endangered by a falling currency and labor shortage.
While laborers have long complained about working conditions in this Gulf city known for its avant-garde skyscrapers, luxury dwellings and archipelagoes of artificial islands, [...]
Construction was expected to begin this year on an oil pipeline from Myanmar’s deep-water port of Sittwe to south-western China, state media on Monday quoted a Chinese oil company as saying.
Executives from the state-owned oil giant Sinopec made the announcement Sunday but gave no date or timetable for the construction, the official Xinhua News Agency [...]
FLORENCE, Italy - A new show in Florence, Italy, is set to offer a glimpse into the “poetic” architecture that Michelangelo created during his famed career.
The show is scheduled to open Dec. 16 at Florence’s Casa Buonarroti, featuring original architectural sketches from the Italian Renaissance artist that represent Michelangelo’s “poetic” style, said the news agency [...]
The architect of the Denver Art Museum’s new Frederic C. Hamilton Building on Friday thanked the city for the support he has found here since being chosen for the project in 2000.
“When I came here six years ago I was awestruck not just by the beauty of the place, but by the spirit, the optimism,” [...]
Çanakkale houses will be promoted through a series of photography exhibitions scheduled for three German states starting in October.
Sponsored by the municipality of Çanakkale the exhibition �Çanakkale Houses from Troy to Present� will open on Oct. 17 in Osnabrück in an effort to promote the 5,000-year history of the city’s architecture. Speaking [...]