Philippe Starck, one of the world's best-known contemporary designers, has created interiors for luxury hotels, restaurants, condos, and weekend homes. Objects he has designed include plastic Louis Ghost chairs, AK-47 gun lamps, and a whole ...

Deyan Sudjic for The Observer - Beijing has rebuilt itself faster than any city on earth, turning from a warren of alleys into a capital fit for a superpower. No wonder the world's top architects - from Foster to ...

ArchNewsNow - Editor’s note: This is the fourth of an exclusive series by Norman Weinstein focusing on the overlooked foundation of architecture: oral and written communication. Here’s an exercise for the bold: let ...

WorldArchitectureNews.com - The San Francisco office of Perkins+Will, winner of an international design competition for the project, has been retained by Singapore’s National Research Foundation to design “CREATE” (Campus for Research Excellence And ...

Principal Voices is stimulating discussion on the major challenges facing the world today. As in previous years, Principal Voices is bringing together some of the world's leading thinkers in their respective fields. In 2008 we ...

It's the key question that will be discussed and debated at the second Principal Voices debate in Singapore on July 9, hosted by Michael Elliott, international editor of TIME Magazine, and ...

It has been read as a symbol of “a modern world power”. It has been held as “world-class architecture” designed to complement a “world-class event”. It has been described as part of Beijing's efforts to ...

SEOUL, South Korea: An all-star group of international architects bidding for the chance to design a new urban center for the South Korean capital said Tuesday the vast site ...

The Star - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Global design visionaries Kengo Kuma from Japan and Ben Van Berkel from The Netherlands will offer a peek into futuristic designs at the PAM 2008 architectural convention in Kuala Lumpur from ...

Lee Rosembaum on CultureGrrl: I can't blog about Stone Hill until my WSJ piece appears. But I can tell you what Ando said about Abu Dhabi to an audience that included James Wood, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust ...