http://www.mail.com/subjects/12344-architecture.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/12344-architecture.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2081076-nys-largest-cemetery-celebrates-175th-anniversary.html NEW YORK (AP) — Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies. The still-active cemetery in Brooklyn was the largest cemetery in the world at the end of the 19th... Mon, 13 May 2013 14:30:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2081076-nys-largest-cemetery-celebrates-175th-anniversary.html 2013-05-13T14:30:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2076348-spire-installed-wtc-tower-making-1776-feet.html NEW YORK (AP) — The World Trade Center's rebirth has long revolved around creating a centerpiece of unsparing symbolism: a skyscraper 1,776 feet tall, its height an homage and a bold statement about looking forward. The new 1 World Trade Center reached that height with the lowering of a silvery spire from a crane on Friday, officially taking its place as ... Fri, 10 May 2013 21:27:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2076348-spire-installed-wtc-tower-making-1776-feet.html 2013-05-10T21:27:23Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2041834-artist-decorates-louvres-iconic-pyramid.html PARIS (AP) — An Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum's glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument's history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors, faces due west onto France's business district, La Defense. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world's leading conceptual... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:08:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2041834-artist-decorates-louvres-iconic-pyramid.html 2013-04-24T18:08:57Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2005868-koolhaas-unites-architecture-design-fashion.html MILAN (AP) — Shedding his "puritanical" attitude against architects designing objects, Rem Koolhaas has shifted scale to create 11 pieces of furniture for the U.S. industrial design house Knoll. The Dutch architect's creations, which premiered Monday ahead of Milan Design Week, include a dynamic counter — a stack of three horizontal beams that can be tran... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:43:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2005868-koolhaas-unites-architecture-design-fashion.html 2013-04-08T17:43:02Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1990756-where-profit-is.html NEW YORK (AP) — J.C. Penney is honing in on its home department as part of a bigger plan to turn its stores into mini-malls of sorts. The struggling department-store chain is unveiling revamped home areas within its stores that feature 20 boutiques that highlight 50 new brands. The areas will include an eclectic mix of items, from $60 Michael Graves' stai... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:01:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1990756-where-profit-is.html 2013-04-01T18:01:53Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1965896-eisenhower-family-wants-dc-memorial-design.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The future of a planned memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower was thrown into doubt Tuesday as lawmakers questioned the project's design and cost and the 34th president's family called again for the memorial project to be redesigned. A House panel hosted a hearing on the 14-year-old project, which is planned for a site on the National M... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:32:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1965896-eisenhower-family-wants-dc-memorial-design.html 2013-03-19T21:32:36Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1963708-pritzker-prize-winner-ito-seeks-ideas-nature.html TOKYO (AP) — When he says why he especially likes Sendai Mediatheque, the public library that ranks among his most famous works, Toyo Ito, the Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, says he likes to see people napping and relaxing inside the transparent structure. Ito, the sixth Japanese to win the honor likened to a Nobel Prize ... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:29:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1963708-pritzker-prize-winner-ito-seeks-ideas-nature.html 2013-03-19T00:29:15Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1961222-japanese-architect-toyo-ito-wins-pritzker-prize.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Japanese architect Toyo Ito, whose buildings have been praised for their fluid beauty and balance between the physical and virtual world, has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Sunday. The 71-year-old architect joins such masters as Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano and Wang Su in receiving... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:42:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1961222-japanese-architect-toyo-ito-wins-pritzker-prize.html 2013-03-18T07:42:33Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1925506-famed-free-nyc-college-start-charging-tuition.html NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors. For free. Its founder envisioned higher education open to all — regardless of race, gender or class — an ideal that has remained the prestigious school's most cherished principle since 1902. But a lot can cha... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:45:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1925506-famed-free-nyc-college-start-charging-tuition.html 2013-03-01T19:45:22Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1914900-milan-designers-propose-assertive-winter.html MILAN (AP) — Milan designers have proposed assertive and even aggressive looks for next year, as if to fill a power vacuum felt keenly in Italy in the face of political uncertainty and a resigning pope. The looks presented during six days of fashion previews that ended Monday were structured and solid, inspired by architecture and design and employing stu... Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:43:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1914900-milan-designers-propose-assertive-winter.html 2013-02-25T20:43:29Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1870524-oscar-green-room-honors-40s-art-director-gibbons.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Oscar nominees such as Steven Spielberg, Hugh Jackman and Helen Hunt want to take a break backstage during the Academy Awards show, they'll step back in time. Their off-camera Oscar hangout, the Architectural Digest Greenroom, was inspired by art director Cedric Gibbons, who won 11 Academy Awards and was nominated another 28 times ... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1870524-oscar-green-room-honors-40s-art-director-gibbons.html 2013-02-05T18:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1867508-cairos-musical-heart-mohammed-ali-street-fades.html CAIRO (AP) — During its heyday, it was famed as the lively and romantic heart of Arabic music — a Cairo street modeled after Paris' boulevards, home to musicians, belly-dancers and instrument makers. But Mohammed Ali Street is fading. It had already been in decline for years as a music center. Now the crunch of post-revolution Egypt may finish it off, bet... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1867508-cairos-musical-heart-mohammed-ali-street-fades.html 2013-02-04T15:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1837932-dutch-police-3-arrested-high-priced-art-heist.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Romanian authorities have arrested three suspects in last year's multimillion-dollar art heist from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police said Tuesday. But the paintings, by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet, have not been recovered. The announcement marked the first breakthrough for police since thieves broke op... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1837932-dutch-police-3-arrested-high-priced-art-heist.html 2013-01-22T19:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1819332-olympic-cauldron-contender-design-prize.html LONDON (AP) — Britain's tallest building, the 2012 Olympic cauldron and a non-stick ketchup bottle are among contenders for a major design award. London's Design Museum Monday announced nominees for the Designs of the Year prizes in seven categories including architecture, fashion, transport and digital media. Architecture candidates include The Shard, a ... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1819332-olympic-cauldron-contender-design-prize.html 2013-01-14T13:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1806702-guatemala-builds-private-city-to-escape-crime.html GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The highway climbs toward the edge of Guatemala City, past deep ravines where the poorest residents of the capital live in thousands of cinderblock huts, roofed with plastic sheets and powered by black cables stealing electricity from nearby lampposts. Seven miles (11 kilometers) south of the historic center, the rutted, two-lane roa... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1806702-guatemala-builds-private-city-to-escape-crime.html 2013-01-08T18:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1788670-mexico-city-seeks-beauty-public-space-makeover.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The plan is as big as this mammoth city: Turn a seedy metro hub into Mexico City's Times Square; clear swarms of feisty vendors and remodel the historic Alameda Central; illuminate the plazas and walkways of a park twice the size of New York's Central Park. Mexico City's government is trying to transform one of the world's largest citie... Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1788670-mexico-city-seeks-beauty-public-space-makeover.html 2012-12-27T19:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1754068-sight-fbis-unloved-hoover-building.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Just six blocks from the White House, the FBI's hulking headquarters overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue has long been the government building everyone loves to hate. The verdict: It's an ugly, crumbling concrete behemoth, an architectural mishap — all 2.4 million square feet of it. But in this time of tight budgets, massive deficits and the... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1754068-sight-fbis-unloved-hoover-building.html 2012-12-10T08:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1750846-brazil-remembers-famed-architect-with-vigil-samba.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The city where architect Oscar Niemeyer was born 104 years ago said goodbye Friday with a public vigil, flowers and, yes, samba. After a viewing in Brasilia, in the presidential palace he himself designed, Niemeyer's body was flown to Rio for a vigil. Men and women filed by his wooden casket covered by a Brazilian flag and three red ... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1750846-brazil-remembers-famed-architect-with-vigil-samba.html 2012-12-07T19:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1747866-brazil-mourns-architect-niemeyers-death.html BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of mourners lined up in the vast open plaza at the heart of Brasilia, Brazil's modernist capital, to honor internationally renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer during a Thursday memorial in the city that most strongly reflects his signature style in its monumental buildings of flowing concrete and grand, sweeping curves. Niem... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1747866-brazil-mourns-architect-niemeyers-death.html 2012-12-06T19:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1746784-oscar-niemeyer-brazilian-architect-dies-104.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete and built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains as a symbol of the nation's future, died on Wednesday. He was 104. Elisa Barboux, a spokeswoman for the Hospital Samaritano in Rio de Janeiro, confirmed Niemeyer's death and said the ca... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1746784-oscar-niemeyer-brazilian-architect-dies-104.html 2012-12-06T00:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1722562-ap-impact-will-nyc-to-block-future-surges.html Think Sandy was just a 100-year storm that devastated New York City? Imagine one just as bad, or worse, every three years. Prominent planners and builders say now is the time to think big to shield the city's core: a 5-mile barrier blocking the entryway to New York Harbor, an archipelago of man-made islets guarding the tip of Manhattan, or something like ... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1722562-ap-impact-will-nyc-to-block-future-surges.html 2012-11-26T14:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1722650-historic-jewish-cemetery-caribbean-fades.html WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) — Headstones are pockmarked, their inscriptions faded. Stone slabs that have covered tombs for centuries are crumbling. White marble has turned grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from a nearby oil refinery. One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Western Hemisphere, Beth Haim on the island of Curacao, is slowly fading... Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1722650-historic-jewish-cemetery-caribbean-fades.html 2012-11-25T17:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1713518-review-bair-writes-bio-artist-saul-steinberg.html "Saul Steinberg: A Biography" (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese), by Deirdre Bair When New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg was honored in 1974 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the architect Philip Johnson puzzled out loud over how best to describe him. Although Steinberg was about to receive the gold medal for graphic art, wasn't he also a satirist, a... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1713518-review-bair-writes-bio-artist-saul-steinberg.html 2012-11-20T12:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1711722-brazils-niemeyer-worse-doctors.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The hospital that's treating famed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer says the 104-year-old has gotten worse. Rio de Janeiro's Samaritano Hospital says Niemeyer is suffering from kidney failure, aggravated by bleeding in the digestive tract, which has been brought under control. In a statement Monday, the hospital said he is now brea... Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1711722-brazils-niemeyer-worse-doctors.html 2012-11-19T18:56:00Z