During its days as a British colony, much of India's art history remained hidden. The rediscovery of historical work at archaeological sites beginning in the 1850s was a spur to surging pride in Indian culture.
We can't escape geometry. If you're reading this inside your home or office, you're surrounded by straight edges. When you're driving, as often as not you're navigating a grid. Nature might not favor clean lines, but we do in the things and the daily surroundings we design.
''Cube,'' as Lincoln Schatz has dubbed the space, possesses 24 video cameras, which all film the person or people in the room for 60 minutes. Then, the existing videos will be combined into one continuously runningstream, in which a software program randomly determines what appears on a 42-inch screen. He calls it a Generative Portrait, since what you see will shift constantly.
Much is made of the homogenous design monotony of international retailers. Instantly recognizable spaces created by global brands like Starbucks and McDonald's fuel a general-consensus lament that ''it's all the same'' and ''there is no local character.''
One of the biggest marketing mistakes some architectural firms make is working with blinders on. The firm wins a project, the firm provides quality services and keeps the client happy, the project is a success, and then the project manager simply closes out the job. What's the next step? Most architects or project managers tend to move on to the next project. But back up a minute. Did you really just close out that project, or did you close out that client too?
Residential design is not going green. It's gone green. More homeowners demand that their homes be sustainable, healthy to live in, and affordable to maintain as the years go by. By going green, they have chosen to reduce the burden on the environment while adding value to their homes.
Dubai is one of the world’s fastest-growing cities, and many U.S.;ndash;based architecture firms are responding to the demand for design services. Working in Dubai presents many challenges but offers great opportunity for firms and individuals who are willing to go the distance.
Most of us are too young to remember a time when consumer goods were scarce. For today’s consumer shopping is more than a necessity. It is a form of entertainment.
In a survey by the American Management Association, CEOs agreed that practicing creativity and innovation was what businesses need to survive in the 21st century, according to an article in Psychology Today by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz and Robert Epstein. However, only 6% of the CEOs felt that their organizations were doing a ''great job'' of it.
Crescent Hydropolis Resorts PLC has a vision that will change the way people look at hotels forever. The company has proposed the first underwater tourism destination. The ocean, which has long since been a place of exploration and discovery, might possibly be a place for tourism, as well.
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