It’s easy to list the reasons why we are supposed to love urban agriculture: the food it yields is fresh and local; the farming it requires is fun and social; the effect on neighborhoods is revitalizing and healthy.
Steven Holl Architects to design Houston Museum expansion
Architect Steven Holl of Steven Holl Architects, an award-winning firm based in New York City and Beijing, has been selected to design a long-awaited expansion to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston campus.
Sustainable is not enough: a call for regenerative cities
Urban resource consumption and waste disposal is widely seen as the root cause of many of the world’s environmental problems.
A billion euros House
This is an unlikely consequence of the Irish economic crisis. Artist Frank Buckley decided to express his anger about the property boom and bust by building a house from more than a billion euros of decommissioned notes.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heller House is on the market for $2.5m
Built at the back end of the 19th century, the sprawling 16-room home designed by one of the world’s most famous ever architects epitomised the American Dream.
Frank Gehry is working for free as architect
Frank Gehry is working for free as architect of new Jazz Bakery
Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour
Celebrated architect Richard Rogers and his partners discuss £140m penthouses, John Prescott’s ministerial ‘flair’ and Prince Charles’s strange ideas about architecture
Hospitality Begins at Home
The permeability of so many national borders across Europe, and the exceptional impenetrability of a few so-called rogue states, have heightened concerns about security and identity, and also about the stranger, whether alien, immigrant or guest.
Green walls create new urban jungles
Vertical gardens are cropping up all over cities these days, transforming drab urban facades into vibrant jungles of color.
Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
A New Yorker’s plan to demolish a Bart Prince-designed home and build a two-story California Mission-style residence has neighbors concerned over the potential loss of ocean views and what some decry as the waste of a perfectly good house.
Times and Tides Weigh on Hudson River Park
It is supposed to be the model for New York City parks to come — built from dilapidated industrial structures, self-sustaining and financed by commercial ventures operating on parkland.
Scandinavian for great design
Globe and Mail ‘s Lisa Rochon highlights forward-looking designs from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
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