This first rotating skyscraper that will be built in Dubai is designed to be self powered and completely prefabricated.

Dudley Stewart has been leading the Charleville Castle Project since 1996. He took up the mantle from Bridget Vance and broadened the vision, beyond physical restoration, to cultural regeneration.

John Lautner (1911-94), one of the most important and influential architects of the twentieth century, had a remarkable career spanning nearly six decades. Residing and working in Los Angeles during much of that time, his designs are known for their radical innovation with specific attention to materiality, space and a consciousness of the natural environment.

2008 Pritzker Architecture Laureate Jean Nouvel will speak at the National Building Museum on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 7:00 pm as part of the Museum's popular Spotlight on Design lecture series.

Famous as the City of Dreams, Dubai is all set to be the first to design and build a futuristic bridge that is not only an excellent piece of architecture, but will also go a long way to organize traffic in the city! Check out this amazingingly beautiful piece of architecture that is a pleasure to look at! The bridge that you see in the picture above is going to be the world’s largest and tallest Arch Bridge.

The Stephen Lawrence Centre, opening in February 2008, will enable us to expand the scope of our work with both aspiring and disaffected young people.

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI), announced that Actaris, a subsidiary of Itron Inc, has entered into contracts in Azerbaijan for prepayment metering technology to help electricity and gas providers improve revenue collection.

Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) has reached an agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE) to deploy Itron’s OpenWay™ meter and communications system as part of SCE’s Edison SmartConnect metering program.

Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who designed many of the buildings in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, is 100 today and still working.

Between Earth and Heaven will be the first large-scale museum exhibition devoted to this innovative, yet underappreciated, American architect. The exhibition will run from July 13 to October 12, 2008.

One of the strongest and most efficient construction designs is the dome. Dome structures like the Pantheon in Rome have survived for centuries, while other buildings around them have crumbled. Modern architecture has avoided the dome, but it is making a comeback thanks in part to production techniques developed here in the United States.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann's design Helvetica, the most ubiquitous of all typefaces. Considered to be one of the most important typefaces of the 20th century, Helvetica communicates with simple, well-proportioned letterforms that convey an aesthetic clarity that is at once universal, neutral, and modern.