Tokyo - Woven into a rare stand of trees, Hiroshi Nakamura's apartment building offers business travelers a place to land. By Cathelijne Niujsink for MetropolisMag

he New York Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff writes: BEIJING — Historical cycles that took a century to unfold in the West can be compressed into less than a decade in today’s China. And that’s as true of Beijing’s preservation movement ...

Kajima's floor-by-floor slow demolition is one of those rare things in life that leaves you truly speechless, mouth wide-open, and pinching yourself to be sure this is real while you mutter "what the frak." After all, seeing the ...

The Guardian.co.uk - It is known as the Veil and is described by its architects as a giant glass Muslim headscarf in the heart of Paris. The former French president Jacques Chirac saw it as ...

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from Inhabitat - by Mahesh Basantani - The Singapore skyline has been getting greener these days with new developments from some of the world’s most renown architects. The latest design to join the trend is ...

It may just be the world's most extreme property makeover: 125,000 Bombay slum dwellers are about to have their homes rebuilt by one of the world's hippest architects. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) is renowned for building monolithic skyscrapers. Its ...

VietNamNet Bridge – The position of chief architect in Hanoi and HCM City existed for over 9 years before it was discontinued. The draft Law on Urban Planning proposes the resumption of this position. What break-through is expected ...

Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull... -- ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The billionaire owner of Bruce Lee's final home hopes to build a museum to the martial arts legend, giving in to public calls to prevent the sale of the luxury house in a northern ...