This November, a selection of the most imaginative religious spaces completed within the last 3 years will be showcased at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
In late October, Barcelona hosts the World Architecture Festival during which the great and good will attempt to choose the best building in the world.
"The quality of architecture is invariably high in the religion category, which I think is because communities and religious organizations are often commissioning these projects, " opines Paul Finch, World Architecture Festival program director.
At the World Architecture Festival, Nikken Sekkei took home the sustainable building award for its evaporative cooling bioskin building in Tokyo, and science fans successfully purchased Nikola Tesla's old Long Island workshop to turn it into a museum.
UNESCO, as part of the World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP), is organizing an International Colloquium on Conservation of World Heritage Earthen Architecture.
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In the world of architecture, this week Vietnam unveiled the world's largest dragon-shaped bridge -- and it actually breathes fire!
European leaders say they are ready for serious talks on a new world financial architecture to replace the Bretton Woods system.
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In the world of green architecture, this week's big story was the completion of Halley VI, the world's first modular research station, in Antarctica.
Because relationships are the key to innovation, organizations around the world are using architecture to create physical environments that stimulate both arranged and chance encounters.
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That is certainly the case in the design of the centre created by Daniel Libeskind, a world leader in architecture and a friend of Northern Ireland.
This two-day international event will gather a network of global experts in earthen architecture conservation, including site managers, researchers and specialized institutions, to share knowledge and experiences in conservation of World Heritage earthen architecture.
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In the world of green architecture, a new report shows that New York City could cut 90 percent of its carbon emissions by the year 2050 using technologies available today and without breaking the bank.
The restaurant scene is booming, neighbourhoods are being transformed and at the same time, Istanbul offers world renowned ancient architecture and museums, food fit for a sultan and enough sights and activities for a lifetime of visits.
He dreams that, by the time he turns 60, he will be a world-class master of architecture who bridges the worlds of Internet technology and architectural art.
When you need a break from the sun, hop on a tour of the neighbourhood, taking in the largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the world.
In 2006 Intel sold its nascent xscale smartphone processor business to Marvell, after Intel's engineers decided they could eventually shrink the Intel architecture powering the world's PCs into a handheld processor.
Held at the midpoint of the WHEAP programme (2007-2017), it offered a critical look at the progress and achievements of the WHEAP programme and presented the diversity of earthen architecture on the World Heritage List.
He did not believe, as modernists held, that the world could be made better by architecture.
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It is regarded as the finest example of medieval castle architecture anywhere in the world.
"We need a new architecture for a new world -- more Frank Gehry than formal Greek, " she said.
Despite his passion for design he never believed architecture would change the world.
The favored became an exclusive club, or not-so-secret society, or conspiring cabal, depending on your point of view, who met at Johnson's notorious and exclusionary Century Club dinners where they settled the future of architecture and the built world.
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However, even with the rise of the G20 as the main global economic decision making body, with China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa all at the top table, the world appears to lack the governance architecture to achieve the conditions for this kind of enduring economic reform.
Surrounded by 500-year-old fortress walls, the Centro Historico is a Unesco World Heritage Site, with Spanish colonial architecture, internationally branded luxury hotels and obvious traveller appeal.
This conference, which brought together 240 participants, including experts, professionals and students, was the first international event on earthen architecture in the context of World Heritage.
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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He described a vision of a new global architecture for collaboration in an interdependent world.
Cultural landscapes, transboundary sites, thematic programmes dedicated to Marine Heritage, World Heritage Forests, Sustainable Tourism, Earthen Architecture, and Small Island Developing States have all been established to address the specific needs of these sites.
These questions take us to the brave new world of Epistemology, Ontology, Information and Security Architecture, the ubiquitous GUIs, context searches, and so on.
If the world can arrive at a consensus on such an architecture -- and maximize the benefits of free flow of private capital without excessive risk -- that would be the best legacy of the Asian crisis.
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