Remove Events Remove Foundation Remove Restoration Remove Urban Development
article thumbnail

Lost Masterpieces: 6 Iconic Buildings That Met the Wrecking Ball

Architizer

While a developer was sought to fund the structure’s restoration, the appeal was unsuccessful. The 1960s heralded a destructive spate of urban development in Brussels, from which the neologism Brusselization was coined. Over time, many of the capsules fell into disrepair and were abandoned.

Building 102
article thumbnail

ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

e-architect

The ReefLine was conceived by BlueLab Preservation Society and Coral Morphologic and will be developed in collaboration with the City of Miami Beach and researchers from University of Miami. Guggenheim Museum’s Latin American Circle Partner, board member of Art Basel Cities and recipient of Knight Foundation Arts Champion Award.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. Bridging between climate scientists, economists, biologists, hydrologists and cultural anthropologists remains a challenge that the event about which I am reporting took on. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.

article thumbnail

Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

e-architect

Von Gerkan was co-founder of the gmp Foundation and of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). The aac is a non-profit organization focused on the educational development of graduates and young architects. Therefore, our work as university professors and in the gmp Foundation was particularly important to us. image © gmp.

article thumbnail

10 Architects Who Can – and Should – Win the Pritzker Prize

Architizer

Architizer’s A+Awards program was founded with the precise aim of countering the culture of starchitecture, which erases the very foundation of architectural practice: collaboration. Mexico City-based architect Tatiana Bilbao has a long history of engaging with this crisis as it manifests in her hometown.

Architect 101
article thumbnail

Competitions: EURASIAN PRIZE 2022

Bustler

The international competition of architecture and design ‘Eurasian Prize‘ is an annual event, which culminates in the final events - the international Summit of Architects, Urbanists and Designers ‘ArchEurasia’ and awarding ceremony of the prize winners. More about Category.

article thumbnail

“Conundrum of architecture”

Architecture Here and There

The fact that he raped a lady (well, he was a superhero after all) while fixing her fireplace was an apposite analogy for his approach to urban development: bully everyone, trash everything, build anew, and make heaps of money. I hadn’t a clue what Mr Cook’s private political views were, or even if he had any.