LINCOLN, MA.- The Flansburgh House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is the latest privately owned historic property protected through a preservation easement held by Historic New England and is now the second Modern house to enter its nationally recognized S…
AIA New York Chapter Announces 2011 Design Award Winners at March 1 Symposium
NEW YORK, NY.- Twelve eminent architects, educators, critics and planners convened at the Center for Architecture to select the winners of the 2011 AIA New York Chapter’s Design Awards. Last night, they publically announced the 38 winning project…
Plans by Architect Charles Burton for World’s First Skyscraper at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale
LONDON.- An astonishing mid 19th century design for what would have been the world’s first skyscraper is for auction at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, it was decided to move the C…
Plans by Architect Charles Burton for World’s First Skyscraper at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale
LONDON.- An astonishing mid 19th century design for what would have been the world’s first skyscraper is for auction at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, it was decided to move the C…
Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Vienna and the Wiener Werkstatte Auction of Important 20th-Century Austrian Design
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces Vienna and the Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte Wiener Werkstätte, an auction of important 20th-century Austrian design to be held March 3rd at the company’s New York flagship, 450 Park Avenue…
Interview with Beate Salje, Director of Berlin’s Museum of the Ancient Near East
BERLIN.- For everything we’ve ever wanted to know about the Museum of the Ancient Near East… Director Beate Salje has the answers. Who were the most important discoverers and excavators of the archaeological objects in your collection? Well for a sta…
Museum Designs for The Broad Art Foundation Were Unveiled Today In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES.- Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and architect Elizabeth Diller today unveiled the designs of The Broad Art Foundation, a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller S…
Architect for New York’s Ground Zero Skyscraper Working on Italian Bridge Project
ROME (AP).- Officials of a project to build a bridge linking the Italian mainland to Sicily say the architect for New York’s Ground Zero skyscraper is working on designs for a complex to be built on the Calabrian side of the span. Strait of Messina Bri…
The Second Stage of San Juan de Ulua Fortress in Veracruz Restoration Has Begun
MEXICO CITY.- The value enhancement of San Juan de Ulua Fortress in Veracruz Port, one of the priority projects of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will undergo soon its second stage, which includes work as the integral restora…
Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Search for Maryland Architect for Major Renovation
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art is entering a new phase of its $24 million renovation by issuing a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to Maryland architectural firms interested in being considered for the Museum’s ambitious capital renov…