House Style: Queen Anne
Saturday July 31, 2004
With fancy spindles and turrets, the Queen Anne style is often called romantic and feminine. Yet these flamboyant homes are the product of a most unromantic era -- the machine ... Read More
Building Tall... And Safe
Wednesday July 28, 2004
Do you feel uneasy in tall buildings? After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center towers, many people lost their enthusiasm for skyscrapers. Now, architects and engineers ... Read More
Feng Shui Paint Colors?
Saturday July 24, 2004
This lake-view home is set in an ideal feng shui landscape, the owner tells us. What color schemes would best harmonize with the environment?
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Millennium Park Wows Critics
Tuesday July 20, 2004
Chicago's brand new Millennium Park is open and critics are calling the $475 million outdoor spectacle a bold combination of engineering, architecture, public art, and landscape design. Here's a roundup ... Read More
Russian Buildings Under Attack
Saturday July 17, 2004
Pounding jackhammers are destroying Czarist buildings in Moscow. Is the drive to modernize destroying the city's architectural heritage?
• Read the story in the Globe and Mail
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Plan for Baghdad
Tuesday July 13, 2004
When Frank Lloyd Wright was over 90, he visited Mesopotamia and conceived a grand scheme to build an entirely new city on the plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates. ... Read More
Disney Architects
Monday July 5, 2004
Typically, theme park architecture is -- well -- thematic. Borrowing popular motifs from history and fairy tales, the buildings are designed to tell a story. But, architecture isn't a Mickey ... Read More