Monthly Archives: June 2008

An even greater Paris

French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently launched a consultation process with 10 renowned architects and with urbanists, researchers and engineers in order to come up with a plan for the after-Kyoto “Greater Paris.” The purpose is to create a coherent urban planning for the next decades that will incorporate the suburbs and beyond instead of focusing [...]
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Celebrities design

You’ve probably heard about it already, Brad Pitt will join a team of architects to design the plans of an ecologically-sensitive 800-rooms luxury hotel in Dubai. Pitt has always been interested in architecture and is currently working on a housing project in New Orleans to relocate victims of Katrina. And singer/producer Pharell Williams designed his [...]
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