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Landscaping the Burj Khalifa

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

J. Michael Welton

2011-02-23-burj.gifWhen the Burj Khalifa opened, attention focused on this Emerald City-like apparition.

In Vietnam, Design Lessons Learned

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

J. Michael Welton

2011-02-10-vietnam.png The list of the American architecture firms now building in Vietnam reads like a veritable Who's Who of the design world.

Drawing Like a House Afire

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

J. Michael Welton

These days,it's almost impossible to find a young architect who can draw freehand. To others, though, a computer and a pencil are simply two different ways of developing an idea. There are those who can draw, and those who prefer a computer.

ARCHITECTURE: What's Coming, What To Expect In 2011

Patricia Brizzio | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia Brizzio

Most countries were shaken by the global economic downturn of the last years, and so was the architecture world. As Jacob Slevin points out in his art...

Fifty Cities in Twenty Years

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

J. Michael Welton

The Chinese people, their collective memory wiped clean by Mao's Cultural Revolution, need context for their new cities. Not surprisingly, American architects are swarming there.

Reclaim Bahrain

Todd Reisz | Posted 05.25.2011

Todd Reisz

If any country has learned from the last several decades what architecture can do, Bahrain, as most other Gulf countries, could tell the story of how just a few decades of development can transform a country's shape and its people.