News + Events

World Architecture Festival - Barcelona 22-24 Oct, 2008

In late October, Barcelona hosts the World Architecture Festival during which the great and good will attempt to choose the best building in the world. CNN will get exclusive access to the event, the nominations, and the jury which includes some of the world’s greatest architects. The program will... Read more

Buildings

Le Projet Triangle, Paris, France

For over thirty years Paris has laid low in the building stakes with a ban on buildings over 37 m in height brought in under Jacques Chirac’s rule when he was Mayor of Paris in 1977. But yesterday the first tower to be built in the French capital’s inner city, following the lifting of the ban in... Read more

Products

New York • ICFF

Typically following Milan’s supersize furniture fair, the launches at N.Y.C.’s smaller International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) can echo the Italians. This year’s more eclectic mix of furnishings and materials, however, was more likely to be touted as green.  - David Sokol The style council The... Read more

Technology

The Council House 2 (CH2) building

The collaboration between two Australian firms on Melbourne’s new Council House 2 shows off the design possibilities for building-integrated HVAC. The city of Melbourne intended CH2–the Council House 2 building, which opened in August 2006–to exemplify the best of high-performance, sustainable... Read more

Awards

Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards

The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and the Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau invite entries in the Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards program honoring design excellence and architectural accomplishment using western red cedar. To be eligible projects must be completed no earlier than... Read more