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Posted by Editor on May 23, 2012

London Has a Monument. All Others Are Superfluous.

You’d need pretty big balls to erect a giant shaft in the middle of town and call it THE monument. Well, for a long while the British Empire swung just such a set of clackers and because the people of London see themselves at the center of the universe, no one thought it was strange or boastful to call this item The Monument. In reality, it’s a monument to the great fire of 1666 which wiped...

Posted by Editor on May 16, 2012

The Great Lawn in the Sky

This big wall of green is… well, quite literally a wall of green. It’s a demonstration of the possibilities of “green walls” that have been developed by various companies around the world. This particular demonstration was created by General Electric and put up for the public to see in Trafalgar Square in London. We’ve seen architects from Tokyo to Seattle claim that...

Posted by Editor on May 2, 2012

The Hidden Power in London

What waits inside the historic cold storage warehouses in the Smithfields section of London? Not cow carcasses. Not anymore. The evocative Victorian facades now hide a power station that generates electricity from natural gas. Meanwhile, other warehouses are being converted into storefronts for edgy boutiques, and intentionally hard-to-find...

Posted by Editor on May 1, 2012

Summer Lights

Towering neon marks the boardwalk of the seaside resort, Myrtle Beach, South...

Posted by Editor on Apr 30, 2012

A Look Inside SCB

Our sister blog, the Chicago Architecture Blog, recently published a lengthy interview with John Lahey, the C.E.O. of architecture firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz. He talks about the history of his company, and not only its projects in Chicago, but also One Rincon Hill in San Francisco, the blandness of Vancouver architecture, and what kinds of projects appeal to him. It’s worth a read: Inside Solomon...

Posted by Editor on Apr 26, 2012

New Office Tower in San Diego

Our friends at Hines sent this along: (SAN DIEGO) – Hines, the international real estate firm, and its joint venture partner comprised of institutional investors advised by J. P. Morgan Asset Management celebrated today the start of construction of a 13-story, 415,000-square-foot office building, the second office building at La Jolla Commons, which is located in San Diego’s University Towne...

Posted by Editor on Apr 24, 2012

Replacing Stone With Glass in London

As London’s architecture ages, much of it must be replaced. The new retail and office complex called One New Change (1 New Change, London, England) is a good example of what’s been going on in the recent past, and what we can expect in the near future. See also, Tower Bridge House and Tower Place. It keeps to the same scale as its surrounding buildings so that it doesn’t overwhelm...