Tag: Buildings

Making New Climate Data from Old Timber

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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Eastern Seaboard’s old-growth forests were cut down almost in their entirety. Today, trying to find a tree in this area that is more than two hundred years old is like looking for a button that you lost a few years back. But New York City—unlike the surrounding forests—is host to a great crowd of old wood. It’s just that it exists in the form of beams and joists within buildings. “Whenever we get

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What Historic Preservation Is Doing to American Cities

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When news broke earlier this year that the modest but attractive house on Long Island known as Geller I was going to be demolished, the outcry was immediate. The home’s significance in architectural history was beyond question. Its designer, Marcel Breuer, was among the most acclaimed of the mid-20th-century modernists and one of the few whose name is familiar to those with only a passing interest in architecture. These facts ultimately meant little. Geller I—the first of two buildings that

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Shanghai officials put up FENCES outside residential buildings in zero-Covid lockdown

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Shanghai authorities have put up fences outside residential buildings as China hardens its strict ‘zero-COVID’ policy, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million people indoors. 

The largest district in Beijing, meanwhile, will require everyone living or working in the area to take three COVID tests this week, and put more than a dozen buildings under lockdown, after the Chinese capital reported 22 new cases for Saturday. The district, Chaoyang, is home

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When it comes to diplomacy, Wolfgang Ischinger means business – POLITICO

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February 16, 2022


6:13 pm

MUNICH

It was the kind of tense moment that Wolfgang Ischinger was born to defuse. The veteran German diplomat and chairman of the annual Munich Security Conference was hosting a meeting between leaders from the Balkans and senior European and American diplomats when anger bubbled up over the slow progress countries from the region were making toward joining the European Union. 

“You have to tell us if you want us or not,” Serbian President Aleksandar

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Ricardo Bofill, Architekt von Startling Buildings, stirbt im Alter von 82 Jahren

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Ricardo Bofill, ein spanischer Architekt hinter einigen der erstaunlichsten Gebäude der Welt, starb am Freitag in einem Krankenhaus in Barcelona. Er war 82.

Die Ursache sei Covid-19, sagte sein Sohn Pablo.

Zu Herrn Bofills bekanntesten Werken gehörten öffentliche Wohnungsbauprojekte, die größtenteils in den 1980er Jahren in Frankreich gebaut wurden, mit stark überdimensionierten klassischen Elementen, die sowohl als Kitsch verspottet als auch von Kritikern als lang ersehnter Mittelweg zwischen Historismus und Moderne gefeiert wurden.

Er begann seine Karriere mit einer Reihe

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Europe remembers its forgotten war – POLITICO

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PISKY, Ukraine — Machine gun fire pulsed in the distance as Elgard, a 23-year-old junior lieutenant in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, walked a muddy road lined with bombed-out houses in this wrecked, abandoned village on the edge of Donetsk, the regional capital held by pro-Russian separatists.

Clutching his Kalashnikov at the ready, Elgard, who goes by the call signal “Svan,” pivoted instinctively at an intersection and scanned for danger in the direction of

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Richard Neutra’s Architectural Vanishing Act

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On December 15, 1929, Dr. Philip M. Lovell, the imperiously eccentric health columnist for the Los Angeles Times, invited readers to tour his ultramodern new home, at 4616 Dundee Drive, in the hills of Los Feliz. On a page crowded with ads promoting quack cures for “chronic constipation” and “sagging flabby chins,” Lovell announced three days of open houses, adding that “Mr. Richard T. Neutra, architect who designed and supervised the construction . . .

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How the Zoom revolution will transform the Brussels bubble – POLITICO

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This article is part of After Corona, a series exploring how the pandemic has changed the world.

The hottest debate in Brussels this fall won’t be about rule of law or the budget. It’ll be about teleworking, hot desking and online voting.

Organizations around the world are grappling with how to apply lessons from the pandemic and adapt to the Zoom revolution. And the European Union’s two largest institutions are no exception.

Debates have broken out in the European Commission

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How climate change will widen Europe’s divides – POLITICO

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This is the first chapter in The Road to COP26 series.

Climate change isn’t just coming for Europe. It’s coming for the European Union.

Europe’s north will struggle with floods and fires, even with warming at the lowest end of expectations — the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 or 2 degrees above the pre-industrial global average. But the south will be hammered by drought, urban heat and agricultural decline, driving a wedge

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