All Americas articles – Page 10
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NewsUS to revise LEED green assessment system
The main environmental assessment method used in the US and Dubai is to be revised after criticism that it allows energy-guzzling buildings to get a top rating.
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FeaturesNew Orleans reconstruction: We shall overcome
Three years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city is still in ruins and 40,000 people are homeless. The government has abandoned reconstruction in favour of commercial development, but the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, determined to stop their district becoming an industrial park, have engaged charities, architects ...
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NewsNew York crane collapse prompts safety review
Site inspection and procedural review to follow crane collapse that killed six
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Bovis Lend Lease fined for safety breaches in New York
Contractor accused of 19 safety failures after fire at Deutsche Bank site at Ground Zero
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NewsSpace-age farm wins New York design competition
WORK Architecture are the latest winners of the musesum version of the UK's annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
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NewsBattery Park City, New York: A green and sunny vision
Strict environmental planning rules at Battery Park City have produced a cluster of ever-greener residential towers
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NewsBrad Pitt reveals designs for flood-proof New Orleans homes
Brad Pitt launched his drive for green and flood-proof houses in New Orleans yesterday. Pitt and the local campaign is called Make it Right and has enlisted 14 architects to work on designs for the Lower 9th Ward of the city, including Adjaye Associates.
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NewsNouvel in New York
French architect Jean Nouvel has been appointed to design of a new tower to be built adjacent to the Museum of Modern Arts in New York City.
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Taylor Wimpey bullish despite £61m US hit
Taylor Wimpey, the UK’s largest housebuilder, this week insisted it was “in good shape” to come out of the housing slump in the US, despite taking a further £61m hit in its first half results, writes Sarah Richardson.
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NewsNew York architect wins mammouth job in Siberia
Leeser Architecture wins competition to design World Mammouth and Permafrost Museum
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FeaturesOhio silver: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has added sweeping glass walls, a jutting roof and a whole lot of metal to a Midwestern art gallery
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NewsHill International win New York City housing deall
Consultant will provide construction management and build services on $50m housing scheme
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NewsDavid Chipperfield does the triple at RIBA awards
Practice honoured for office, museum and library in Spain, German and America
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Balfour booming in US
The American subsidiaries of contractor Balfour Beatty have won £550m of contracts.
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Britons more development-averse than North Americans
British people are five times more likely to oppose new housing schemes than their counterparts in the US, according to a survey.
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FeaturesRoyal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime
No need to play ‘guess the architect’ on this new wing for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But you’ll never guess how he did it …
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NewsFlash dance school: Canada's National Ballet School
Toronto HQ wins 2007 Institute Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture
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NewsLearning to think big in the land of the skyscraper
New York was the location for last week’s annual conference of the British Council for Offices
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FeaturesFind me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building
For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building
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NewsTaywood takes £41.6m hit in Florida
Taylor Woodrow’s vulnerability to a takeover by Persimmon grew this week after it revealed that its American operations had taken a £41.6m hit.