shopping mall

Istanbul is, in­deed, the place for iden­ti­fy­ing with the be­au­ties and stu­pi­di­ties of dif­fe­rent worlds si­mul­ta­neously. A time­l­ess cli­ché, but true: Is­tan­bul is a cradle of dua­li­ties. Here, not only East and West but also in­for­mal…

The Ber­lage In­sti­tute de­scri­bes this lec­ture se­ries, which ex­ami­nes the ef­fects of glo­bal forces and local rea­li­ties on the con­tem­porary city, as ‘part of cru­cial research’. In rea­lity, howe­ver, every lec­ture turns ou…

The event in­clu­ded more than fifty pre­sen­ta­ti­ons in ses­si­ons held si­mul­ta­neously, fol­lo­wed by a lei­su­rely eve­ning panel for die-hards at the NAi in Rot­ter­dam. Ta­king part were re­now­ned fi­gu­res such as John Fra­ser, Mar­cos Nova…

Among the ac­tivi­ties ta­king place are the work­shops or­ga­nised by The Lighthouse, Scotland's centre for ar­chi­tec­ture, de­sign and the city and Ar­chi­prix In­ter­na­tio­nal. All the par­ti­ci­pant of the Ar­chi­prix In­ter­na­tion 2005 edi­ti…

Jon Jerde and com­pany can be con­side­red the foun­ding fa­thers of the type of shop­ping and lei­sure plaza sought after by every city that wants to com­pete against other ci­ties in the glo­bal arena: large in scale, all-encompassing, spec­ta­cu­l…

The fee­lings arou­sed by the project of the House of Music can per­haps be put to­ge­ther under one ca­te­gory: they are ex­ces­sive. The City Hall shows ex­ces­sive pride, the »intellectual elite« shows ex­ces­sive exci­te­ment, the »progressive« p…