Architecture Updates: September 23 - 29, 2012
Saturday September 29, 2012
This week's architecture updates inspired me to take a second look at the modest bungalow homes in my town. Even in their simplicity, they reflect the influence of grand temples ... Read More
Whoopie! It's Free!
Thursday September 27, 2012
Want to learn more about Richardsonian Romanesque architecture? Henry Hobson Richardson is celebrating a birthday this Saturday—September 29, 1838. In the late 1800s at the height of Chicago's building boom, ... Read More
Great Synagogues
Tuesday September 25, 2012
Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, begins at sundown tonight. Many worshipers will find inspiration in great synagogues like the ones shown here:
New Main Synagogue in Munich, ... Read More
Architecture Updates: Sept. 16 - 22, 2012
Saturday September 22, 2012
Perhaps this is your house. During the 1930s up to the 1950s, Minimal Traditional homes like this one were mass produced throughout the USA. Our new gallery of house plans ... Read More
Can Good Architecture Make Better Schools?
Wednesday September 19, 2012
When schools perform poorly, it's tempting to pour money into bricks and mortar. But do beautiful schools with modern classrooms help students learn? Architecture critic Rowan Moore and teacher-writer Rich ... Read More
Jewish Heritage in Stone and Steel
Monday September 17, 2012
The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is a time for introspection and memory. This week we celebrate Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, Israel. Designed by internationally known architect ... Read More
Architecture Updates: Sept. 9 - 15, 2012
Saturday September 15, 2012
Has global warming got you worried about the rising ocean levels? Not to worry. This week at the London Design Festival, Sanitov Studios is displaying Inachus (shown here), one of ... Read More
Building Tall, Safe...And Fast?
Thursday September 13, 2012
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
The Architecture of Tragedy
Monday September 10, 2012
How do we use architecture to express loss and hope for renewal? Does it make sense to spend millions of dollars building September 11 memorials when so many war survivors ... Read More
Architecture Updates: Sept. 2 - 8, 2012
Saturday September 8, 2012
Are the Twin Towers back at Ground Zero? No, this photo is of the twin skyscrapers that architect David Childs was building for Time Warner in Midtown Manhattan at the ... Read More
Rebuilding the World Trade Center
Thursday September 6, 2012
In 2003 we reported media buzz about the struggles to build a new World Trade Center complex on Ground Zero in New York City. The New York Times and ... Read More
Where Democrats Gather (Or not)
Tuesday September 4, 2012
This week the Architects of Hope gather at two separate arenas for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Most of the speeches will take place at the ... Read More
Architecture Updates: August 26 - Sept. 1, 2012
Saturday September 1, 2012
On this Labor Day weekend in the U.S. we're celebrating the men and women who helped rebuild after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Learn more about the 9/11 Architects, including ... Read More