Books Galore: Art & Design
Art and design across centuries: from history of typefonts and the artistic glories of Rome to two new Da Vinci books and bios of Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Titian and cartoonist […]
Category Archives: Architecture
Books Galore: Photography
Our endless love affair with the City of Light takes form in a 648-page photographic essay Paris: Portrait of a City that captures images by Daguerre, Atget, Lartigue, Brassai, Doisneau […]
Greenest Campus in the Pittsburgh Region
Pittsburgh’s Chatham University may become the greenest academic institution in the US when it completes the 20-year build-out now underway at its newest campus location. Gifted to Chatham in 2008, the […]
Appalachian State’s Solar House Goes Retail
The Solar Homestead, a net-zero energy home designed by students and professors at Appalachian State University in Boone NC, is about to go retail for consumers. Asheville-based Deltec Homes, leading […]
Gallery: Solar Decathlon Europe ’12
Solar Houses: Students Build & Win
Solar-powered houses built by students from 18 universities and schools in Europe, Asia, South America and the US competed for the coveted first place at the 2012 European Solar Decathlon, awarded […]
RISING WATERS: Ideas & Solutions
Design, planning and engineering innovations from three continents Rotterdam, Thames and Venice Storm Surge Gates: Rotterdam’s Measlantkering in the Netherlands is the largest storm surge barrier in the world, designed to […]
CITIES: Rome, Warsaw, Chicago, Hamburg
CITIES is an ongoing series about urban design, green practices and cultural affairs in the world’s cities. EUROPE’S GREEN CAPITALS: Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain’s Basque Country– an eight-century-old city with 240,000 […]
CITIES: Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Detroit
A new series looks at urban design, development and cultural life in the world’s cities. Come back often! PARIS: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe won’t be running for re-election (he’s been in […]
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