Architecture World

REDNECK REAL ESTATE TOUR
PROPERTIES YOU'D NEVER WANT TO OWN

INDICTED FIRM WINS
BACK LICENSE
Testwell labs argues successfully that no law allowed the city to suspend its license merely on the grounds of an indictment. The lab is at the center of an investigation and arrests following the DA's probe of understrength cement poured at over 100 skyscrapers, Yankee Stadium, schools and....

21 ARRESTED IN BUILDER FRAUD
$10 MILLION STOLEN
London, England: It was a vast conspiracy by industry insiders to defraud their own employees and the government to the tune of millions of dollars. Building sites became cash registers for the money- hungry contractors and their accomplices. The scam started over 6 years ago....

WORLD'S NEWEST
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL OPENS
RAPHAEL VINOLY MASTERWORK
New York City's only architecture school that is publicly funded has just been completed and is welcoming students to the new academic year. Master architect Raphael Vinoly built the signature structure on top of and around the framing of the decades old predecessor building. At 115,000 square feet the building provides a home for classrooms, labs, meeting spaces and display area. The architect's work was made possible by a generous gift from the Spitzer Family to CCNY for the building's construction.....

CENTER STAGE
ARCHITECT KENGO KUMA
Architects rarely get the opportunity to explain themselves and their work to a large audience. With 60 completed buildings this video shows how Kuma ...

FAMOUS FIRM TORN APART
HOSTILE TAKEOVER ENDS WITH HOSTILITY
Like a marriage that started out with the best of intentions and ended up on the rocks; So too went the architecture firm of Kohn, Pederson, Fox (KPF) London and the Gang of 5.....

Architect Cass Gilbert, best known for the early 20th century Woolworth Building, slammed into the rear of a haywagon filled with youngsters.Mrs. Gilbert who was accompanying her husband was not seriously injured in the crash. It is unclear at this time if the wagon had proper illumination or if excessive speeding were factors in the collision.

GO TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE: ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

MORE NEWS FROM THE POLICE BLOTTER

DEAD BODIES STOPS
CONSTRUCTION COLD
Workers were horrified to find their bulldozer had unearthed the remains of dozens of bodies thereby uncovering a 500 year old mystery. TV reports and eyewitness accounts relate the tale of architecture, archeology and construction.

$673 MILLION FOR 700 HOMES
ZERO BUILT, MONEY GONE
Huge sums of money have been squandered on a project designed to help Australia's poor and displaced Aboriginal people. The news came to light as the projects per unit cost soared to $900,000 and not one house was built....

    Amazing technology allows
            buildings to rotate.

ROTATING SKYSCRAPERS
             Dynamic Architecture

Nanotech for architects 50 times stronger than steel.....

1400% PROFITS ON EMPTY LOTS
FORECLOSURE. DEAD PARTNER.
$50,000 lots turned into $650,000 lots overnight and then the whole financial shenanigan collapsed with bankers chasing convicted criminals for millions in lost money....

      KING OF REAL ESTATE
    HAS HIS OWN CASTLE
              And so can you.
Architects and architecture buffs the world over love the romance of a good European castle. No one loves them more than developer and real estate nobleman Markus Jerger...

      DANIEL LIBESKIND
       MASTER ARCHITECT of
             GROUND ZERO
The sacred ground at the World Trade Center site has been shattered by the attacks on September 11th, 2001 and by domestic divisions since then.....

300 WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST
INHUMANE CONDITIONS
RISK EXPULSION FROM KINGDOM
Human Rights Watch has become so enraged at the situation in Dubai that is openly supporting construction workers rights in the desert kingdom. At $9 a day the men who build the star architect's prestigious buildings receive little benefit from their back breaking work....

            ONE YEAR LATER.
     FINANCIAL MELTDOWN DESTROYS
        GENERATION OF ARCHITECTS
The worst year for architects since 1929 has just concluded and the prospects for 2010 look even bleaker. From skyscrapers to housing developments architects have seen project after project stutter, freeze and fail. Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the US have seen architects joining unemployment lines as their jobs vanished seemingly overnight....

ARCHITECTURAL OVERRUNS BLAMED FOR
RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS, CENTURIES OF WAR
Massive building costs and delays in completion are being blamed for the historic schism between Catholics and Protestants. The iconic St. Peter's architects attempted to bring the huge structure to completion but.....

ARCHITECT BART PRINCE

Architect Bart Prince's work has always amazed those
who have come into contact with his buildings.The
designs are unfailingly unique, bold and....

DOGFIGHT!
THE PRINCE VS. ARCHITECTS
His charity is a lobby firm charges leveled
Gloves off ladies and gentlemen and forget the rules of etiquette. Prince Charles bigfooted attempts to influence architecture in the sceptered isle have made him a buffoon among the architecture class. The royal brouhaha reached volcanic proportions when the heir...

SEX & ARCHITECTURE
At first it was hard to tell who was more outraged, the
onlookers or the amorous couple disturbed by the police.
The Florida construction crane that hosted the unusual
activities was the site of more than the usual construction
work. In this article from the First Coast News we are treated
to some of the salacious details while keeping the overall
reporting within the context of a family newspaper.

FIRST COAST NEWS: CRANE SEX

«
Start
Prev
1
2
Next
End
»

Page 2 of 2

ARCHITECTURE & FUN

NEWS & WORLD REPORT >> NEWS & WORLD REPORT

I never laughed so hard in my life!

BAD CEMENT LEADS TO ARRESTS

NEWS & WORLD REPORT >> NEWS & WORLD REPORT

66% STRENGTH CEMENT POURED AT GROUND ZERO, YANKEE STADIUM

NORMAN FOSTER'S SPACEPORT BREAKS GROUND

NEWS & WORLD REPORT >> NEWS & WORLD REPORT

ARCHITECTURE FOR LEAVING THE PLANET

DUBAI PARADISE FOR ARCHITECTS

NEWS & WORLD REPORT >> NEWS & WORLD REPORT

WHAT PRICE SUCCESS?