Jun 18 Architects, engineers compete to save the New York coastline By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy After Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York City area, winners of the Rebuild By Design competition found that New Yorkers needed more than flood walls. They needed to change the way they live with water. Continue reading
May 23 Fire engulfs iconic Art Nouveau building and school in Scotland By Lorna Baldwin Firefighters in Glasgow, Scotland today battled to save what they could of the Glasgow School of Art, one of Scotland’s most famous and treasured buildings. The main doors of the Glasgow School of Art. Photo by Flickr user… Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch A tour of architecture in Myanmar’s capital city By Victoria Fleischer Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Architect with humanitarian focus wins top architecture prize By PBS NewsHour This year’s recipient of architecture’s top award — the Pritzker Prize — has designed innovative structures for people suffering from hardship and disaster for more than 20 years. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban helps his profession focus more on serving those… Continue watching
Mar 27 Pritzker Prize winner used paper to build cathedral, concert hall and homes for refugees By Victoria Fleischer Paper, a traditional material for home interiors in Japan, is not exactly a typical architectural construction material anywhere else. But this year’s winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize has shown that he can create beautiful structures for shelter, culture and… Continue reading
Dec 25 Repairs begin on Washington’s iconic U.S. Capitol dome WASHINGTON -- A world famous symbol of democracy is going under cover, as workers start a two-year, $60 million renovation of the U.S. Capitol dome. Curved rows of scaffolds will encircle the dome like Saturn's rings starting this spring. They… Continue reading
Dec 02 The U.S. Capitol dome celebrates 150 years At this hour 150 years ago, the @uscapitol Dome was completed. pic.twitter.com/u2fOjxtqZw— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) December 2, 2013 On December 2, 1863, amid the spectacle of a 35 gun salute accompanied by guns… Continue reading
Nov 16 Watch The heights of vanity? The New York-Chicago skyscraper duel Competition between Chicago and New York over which city has the tallest building. Continue watching
Nov 16 Revealed: the vainest skyscrapers in the world With the recent competition between New York and Chicago over which city has the tallest skyscraper in the U.S. (winner: New York), we were reminded that many of the world's loftiest towers benefit from some seemingly dubious enhancements. Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch How do we preserve treasured monuments from being ‘loved to death’? From corroding modernist monuments to war-torn Syrian cities, some of the world’s most treasured cultural heritage sites are being threatened by various causes. Jeffrey Brown reviews a few of 100 most endangered sites from around the globe with Bonnie Burnham,… Continue watching