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Rockwell Center has announced that its expansion in Makati will have a design team headed by the renowned Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott, the uncredited designer of Dubai’s Burj Al Arab.
If you want to go green, go Filipino. This seems to be the not-so-subliminal message within “Beyond the Bahay Kubo: 16 Climate-Conscious Tropical Homes,” a new book featuring top-shelf residences designed in the contemporary Filipino style by the father-and-son design team of Bobby and Angelo Mañosa.
The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation decks of the 634-meter (2,080-foot) tower to mark its opening. Some reportedly waited in line more than a week to get the coveted tickets for a panoramic view, though Tuesday ended up being cloudy in Tokyo.
In Philippine design and architecture, the name “Calma” is synonymous with a powerful aesthetic impact on the environment. Think Lorenzo “Lor” Calma’s sculptural planes, whose flatness is interrupted by cuts and folds, or Ed Calma’s stark-white College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts building with its irregular form and all-glass backside set against an old, grayish district in Manila.
“Frimness. Utility. Delight.” Written on a plain white card placed on our lunch plates were these words by ancient Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, quoted by another architect, Tobias Guggenheimer, the new academic dean of the School of Fashion and the Arts.
Europe's tallest skyscraper the Shard was being inaugurated in London with a spectacular laser show Thursday, as critics debate whether it is an architectural triumph or a blot on the skyline.
When London-trained Filipino architect Carlo Calma started designing a second home near an old one he shares with his family, his foremost consideration was how to facilitate a “conversation” between the old structure and the new one.
Not far from Ecuador's capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it so they've got one foot on either side of the equator.
The woman who turned her love and appreciation of the built environment into a pioneering and prize-winning career as an architecture critic has died. Ada Louise Huxtable was 91.
As their two sons were growing up, Joel and Eloisa Buse felt it was time to move out of their rented townhouse. While driving the boys to school, the parents took a shortcut through one of San Juan’s streets. They spotted an old house with a “For Sale” sign.
