http://grandbuild.ashui.com the window to great buildings Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:12:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/10/le-projet-triangle-paris-france 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 start with an ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/10/world-architecture-festival-barcelona-22-24-oct-2008 For years, and still in some places, people build their own houses, mud brick by mud brick, creating a dwelling to be proud of, something of their own. This style of vernacular architecture is common place throughout much of the world yet is seen as something of a fad in ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/10/10-incredible-mud-structures-and-citadels Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas was in New York today to unveil his design for 23 East 22nd Street, a new luxury high rise in the Flatiron district that will rise immediately adjacent to the recently completed One Madison Park tower by Cetra-Ruddy architects with which it will share a lobby ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/09/oma-to-build-its-first-residential-high-rise-in-new-york-city The first tall buildings built or years outside of the Commune of Paris and La Defense are now beginning construction. The scheme is being funded by Saudi investment fund MBI to the tune of 500 million euros and is located in the commune, or district if you don't speak French, of ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/09/work-begins-on-paris-twin-towers 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 San Francisco–based Council, launched in 2007 invites ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/09/new-york-%e2%80%a2-icff When Hurricane Hugo ravaged Charleston, South Carolina, in 1989, more than 4,000 historical buildings were severely damaged. Due to a dearth of traditionally trained workers in the United States, European craftsmen were brought in to restore the structures, many of which dated back to the early 1800s. Importing these types of ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/09/students-master-the-art-of-building The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Palmer House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, acclaimed by historians as one of the architect’s best residential projects, has been put up for sale by the family of the original owners. The asking price is $1.5 million. Built between 1951 and 1952, the Usonian-style home measures 2,000 ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/08/wright%e2%80%99s-palmer-house-put-on-the-market For architects Winfried Brenne and Franz Jaschke, restoring the 80-year-old ADGB Trade Union School, in Germany, was a case of subtraction. “The building was not in worse condition than others we had worked with,” Brenne says, “but it was more hidden under changes made over time.” For three decades, their Berlin-based ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/08/an-architectural-gem-in-germany-is-reborn London's Blackfriars Station redesign will bridge the North and South banks of the Thames. Work has now started on the £350m redevelopment that will make London’s Blackfriars the first station to span the river Thames. Two architects are involved in the project, (Jacobs designing the building and Tony Gee & Partners ... http://grandbuild.ashui.com/2008/08/blackfriars-station-london-united-kingdom