Design standards proposed to create more complete, pedestrianfriendly neighborhoods in Fayetteville may be too restrictive in the minds of some developers.
“ I think there’s a way to create good design and accomplish what you’re trying to accomplish without being so specific about how it’s done — that there still is some flexibility, some imagination about [...]

A beautiful building, the owners’ exquisite taste, their warm hospitality and a sumptuous breakfast the next morning all combine to make a night at the Architect’s Inn something to cherish.
We arrived at 6:15 one Wednesday last month and were greeted by co-owner Harlan Tyler with a quick tour, a bounty of information and the [...]

Navin Ramani’s brilliant book on these structures, is not just informative and educative but makes for delightful reading.
For years we have passed by these structures, marveled at their architecture and wondered how they came into existence. In short, one took them for granted. We need not wonder anymore. Bombay Art Deco Architecture – A [...]

Seeking to fill the void left by the departure of its first full-time curator, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has named Gregory K. Dreicer as vice president of exhibitions and programs.
Dreicer, the founder and director of a New York City-based exhibition design firm called Chicken & Egg Public Projects, starts next Monday.
“I like the fact [...]

The Holcim Foundation will launch its second Awards competition for sustainable construction projects, and will hold an international symposium dedicated to Urban_Trans_Formation in 2007. A commemorative book on the first Holcim Awards competition and a booklet on the target issues for sustainable construction have been published which show practical examples of sustainable construction.
The second cycle [...]

The current skirmish in Westport over the future of a house at 16 Minute Man Hill designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph isn’t a first by any means for a design of the former dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
This time angry Westporters are not alone, as Rudolph mania flourishes at times in [...]

Many of us know, or think we know, why we love or hate particular people, places or things. But architecture? One building strikes us as a vision of loveliness, another as a horror, but if asked to explain ourselves, a lot of us shrug and resort to the old standby, “I know what I like.”
The [...]

Architect and designer Jean-Michel Gathy estimates that he has spent an average of two weeks each month for the past 25 years living in hotels and resorts. “It’s sick, they’re my home,” he says. But resorts have become not just his passion, but his vocation too, with a portfolio of high-end properties to his credit [...]

The “Glass Cathedral” — the Berlin central railway station that is Europe’s biggest and most beautiful transport hub — was supposed to be a shining symbol of the new self-confident Germany.
Instead, the Hauptbahnhof station is at the centre of a bitter row about the relationship between an architect and his paymaster that is likely to [...]

Selected works of longtime architect William Lightfoot are to be featured in a photography exhibit Saturday at the Lightfoot Building at 12 Northeast First Street in downtown Paris.
The exhibit is the work of Ginger Cook, a third semester student of Paris Junior College photography instructor Marvin Gorley.
Lightfoot, 81, is to be on hand to visit [...]

What started out as a school project has become a full-blown enterprise for three Finlandia University graphic design students.
“We started researching urbanwear clothing and the more we looked into it, the more we wanted to go further with it,” explained Samantha Voigt, one of the designers behind Goofy Foot, a new line of clothing [...]

Tulsans interested in downtown redevelopment gathered in September at the Tulsa County Library’s Aaronson Auditorium to hear renown Canadian architect Alan Hart talk about Vancouver, the city he helped evolve from a blighted community into the most livable city in North America. He was here to provide insights into the challenges and opportunities of inner-city [...]