Recent Architecture Articles page 8

Miami Herald - Tropical fruit ripening quickly in a street market. Just as diverse are the sounds of multiple dialects being spoken, and the sights of architecture and neon lighting from bygone eras. All of these have made the Chinatown district an intriguing tourist ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - That might be because the architecture of the new theater - the first major arts venue to open on South Broad Street since the Kimmel Center in 2001 - was a conscious act of preserving what everyone liked about the old space, the Plays and Players ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - At 82, Venturi is respected as an architect, critic and writer, winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel. He graduated from Episcopal in 1944; his new building is called the "Class of 1944 Chapel." The chapel is to be the ...

Detroit Free Press - PREVALENT ARCHITECTURE: House styles include ranches, bungalows, colonials and tri-levels built before the 1960s near Lake Erie, old farms and new, larger colonials and ranches farther from the shoreline. Condominiums, apartments and mobile home parks ...

San Francisco Gate - The shop windows are filled with modern merchandise and fashions, the movie theaters are showing provocative films, the bookstores are large and filled with people browsing and the new architecture is stunning and like none other on earth. Even the ...

Houston Chronicle - Truxillo says many equate old with haunted and since the Magnolia Ballroom is one of the few examples of old architecture still standing in Houston, people think it must have ghosts. Truxillo allowed ghost watchers to film and record during an ...

Baltimore Sun - In Mount Vernon, which has attracted Washington commuters with its historical architecture and proximity to Penn Station, the average price jumped 76 percent to $365,000. But even in the city, price declines hit nearly two dozen of the 184 ...

Washington Post - Such status had been sought by Historic Washington Architecture Inc., a group headed by Mary Rowse. Her research into local catalogue houses turned into a passionate drive to save the Jesse Baltimore house when she learned in 2002 of a move to knock ...

New York Times - With stunning Art Deco architecture, a vibrant night life and varied and inventive restaurants, Riga's Soviet gloom has been replaced with a sense of Baltic optimism. Vecriga, the city’s Old Town, is a cabinet of wonders best explored aimlessly

Science Daily - Darmstadt won the Architecture, Lighting, and Engineering contests. The Architecture Jury said the house pushed the envelope on all levels and is the type of house they came to the Decathlon hoping to see. The Lighting Jury loved the way this house ...