March 3, 2010
(Bloomberg) Having outgrown its 1960 embassy, a Kennedy-era modernist design by Eero Saarinen, the U.S. State Department has decided that London is too ...
March 1, 2010
(Bloomberg) Three days after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair learned that colleagues from another ...
March 1, 2010
(Bloomberg) The thin, glassy slab of the United Nations Secretariat and the draping stone form of the General Assembly have been a serene presence along ...
March 1, 2010
The improbably thin shaft of the 828-meter (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa, a tour de force of architecture and engineering, is a reflective-glass icon of Dubai's triumphant...
March 1, 2010
I have been asked by Living Cities, a philanthropic collaborative of foundations and financial institutions, to participate in an upcoming economic development ...
January 26, 2010
(This story has been corrected to include the name of Telcel, the Mexico unit of America Móvil that will be located in Carlos Slim's new urban development.) For many ...
December 28, 2009
Interview by James S. Russell (Bloomberg) If James Murren, the chairman and chief executive officer of MGM Mirage, needs any reminder of the dire state of Las ...
December 14, 2009
Review by James S. Russell (Bloomberg) With its crescent of intersecting wings and oval glass tower, the Aria casino hotel is the crown jewel of CityCenter, ...
July 6, 2009
The economic recession we're in is having a big impact on the building industry; what do you predict its effect will be on the green-building sector in particular? ...
May 18, 2009
Since its launch in 1998, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program has become widely accepted as the standard measure of sustainability for ...
May 13, 2009
With government projects getting a boost through the economic stimulus package while many private sector plans remain in limbo, the playing field for finding new work ...
April 20, 2009
With its economy expected to shrink nearly 3 percent this year, Britain is facing the most severe recession in the developed world. And with troubled banks unwilling ...
April 15, 2009
In recent years, architects descended upon Dubai, eager to capitalize on its feverish building boom. But while the Persian Gulf city's sprawling skyline is still ...
April 8, 2009
The boom in Spanish housing construction, fueled over the past decade by low European Union interest rates, was dealt a fatal blow by the crisis this past fall. ...
April 6, 2009
Architects are feeling the chill of an economic recession and the effects of the U.S. subprime crisis. Despite an estimated 2.2 percent drop in GDP in 2008, a decrease...
April 1, 2009
In the past five years, as India's hunger for glass-encased IT parks and marble-swathed gated communities appeared insatiable, architects designed supersize projects ...
March 30, 2009
It takes 12 hours to fly from Frankfurt to Hanoi, and Bernhard Franken is getting to know the route very well. Franken has a half-dozen projects in Vietnam. If his ...
March 25, 2009
Despite hopes that the casino business would weather the economic storm, almost all building sites in Macao have gone quiet—a stark reminder that not even China ...
March 23, 2009
Brazil Builds was the title of the Museum of Modern Art's famous 1944 exhibition on Brazilian modern architecture, a show that offered a promising design panorama at a...
March 16, 2009
Proponents of green buildings have a long list of persuasive arguments they can use to convince clients and developers that green is the way to go: Build green, and ...
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