Today the publication place of the ideas competition for a new town office for Rotterdam. 5 winners from 104 entries were chosen, also the people of Rotterdam also had a voice in the appointment of an audience winner.
“The Butterfly”, Figure Sky
PHE N.Y. Lanin, Head of the city
The jury, consisting of Wiel Arets (Chairman), Stefan Behnisch, Adriaan Geuze, John Körmeling, Michelle Provoost and Harm Tilman, received 104 entries to judge. Besides its task to appoint five winners, the jury asked to select 25 plans for this exhibition.
The 5 winners are: PHENY N.Y. Nine of LA La Lidy Meijers and Helga Fast (Posterholt); Figure of Sky RV Ritoe Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure (Delft), The Butterfly Maarten van Tuijl, Tom Berg Foot, Naoko Hikami (Amsterdam), assisted by Peter Farmer, Head of the City of Fountain Head of Christian Müller and Forideas (Amsterdam). Read the rest of this entry »
I seem forsaken and alone,
I hear the lion roar;
And every door is shut but one,
And that is Mercy’s door.
- William Cowper, “The Waiting Soul”
The lions of 757 Seneca Street, looming sentinel over the urban scene from the first story of the Kamman Building, are potent symbols of protection, prosperity, and resurrection.
The lion mask, a frequent symbol in classical Greco-Roman architecture, makes a reappearance in the Kamman Building, a Romanesque Revival, four-story apartment and retail block constructed in 1878 by Henry Kamman, the owner of one of East Buffalo’s largest slaughterhouses. Read the rest of this entry »
Burj Al-Arab Hotel
This is one of modern architectural masterpiece Burj Al-Arab Hotel. By adopting the model of traditional Arabic boat, Burj Al-Arab Hotel is one of the top architectural achievements in the 21st century.
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Mayor Byron Brown today unveiled an effort to overhaul Buffalo’s antiquated zoning code, an initiative that may prove particularly relevant to future development efforts in the Hydraulics. Brian Reilly, the Mayor’s Commissioner of Economic Development, announced the City’s plans in an editorial in today’s Buffalo News. Read the rest of this entry »
New clues on the original appearance of the Larkin Gas Station have emerged, hiding in plain sight. In the rear of the long-vacant filling station at 725 Seneca, an Art Deco, brick and concrete facade reveals itself, giving some indication of what a retro, 1960s Gulf Oil sheathing may hide underneath its metal panels.
Commentor David Steele, a writer for Buffalo Rising and architect in Chicago, underscores what may be a preservation dilemma in the potential Read the rest of this entry »
