Will the future be Dubai or Masdar?

BDOnline.co.uk's Phil Clark reports on the Cityscape conference held in Dubai last week, and it seems a showdown is emerging between the opulent excess of ...

The World’s Most Competitive Cities

Saskia Sassen on why Europe and Asia are overtaking America in the race to create new hubs of ...

when exhibition becomes inhibition

Robert Campbell, architectural critic for the Globe, writes about how a recent exhibition at Harvard University's Gund Hall manages to address everything about ...

Mayne warns Dubai set for ‘ecological disaster’

Pritzker Prize winner blames a lack of control by city’s political class Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne has predicted that Dubai will become an “ecological ...

New supertall commissions announced by Smith and Gill for Dubai, including mega-towers, worth $15 billion

Against a backdrop of nose-diving world markets, it sounds like a comic book fantasy: Three closely-bunched, mega-skyscrapers would shoot in the sky, connected by skybridges ...

Correa, Maki Tapped to Design Aga Khan Center

By Alex Bozikovic - One of the world’s great architecture patrons has hired two distinguished architects—the Indian Modernist Charles ...

Event: Space, Flat

A collaboration of 8 creatives (architect, installation artist, sound + graphic + multimedia designers). The ...

Awards: World Architecture News House of the Year 2008

World Architecture News House of the Year 2008...

Exhibition / VERTICAL CITIES: HONG KONG | NEW YORK

What city has more skyscrapers than New York? [Answer: using 400 feet–nearly 40 stories–as a benchmark, Hong Kong has 558 buildings to New York’s 360.] ...

TED.com / Liz Diller: ‘Architecture is a special effects machine’

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