Architecture

Bucharest became an associate member of the Lighting Urban Community International (LUCI); Mayor Sorin Oprescu signed the Charter of Urban Lighting on Wednesday.

LUCI VP Mary-Ann Schreurs (left) watches Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu (righ) signing the Charter on Urban Lighting
Photo credit: (c) Ilie Alexandru BUMBAC / AGERPRES PHOTO

Amalia Sotiropoulou completes her artistic trilogy with her exhibition titled “Missing Sister-Trilogy”. The exhibition is set to open on the 23rd of April at 19.30 local time in the Skoufa gallery.

A Muslim cleric has for the first time in 85 years recited the Koran in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous landmark of Istanbul which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque, reports said Saturday.

Rescue teams have found a second victim of the collapse of a disused hotel building on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, which occurred during deconstruction works on Wednesday.

Guests of the iconic Selimiye Mosque in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne will soon be given socks free of charge to wear while visiting the mosque.

Edirne Mufti Emrullah Üzüm said the free sock distribution was going to begin soon to avoid any problems regarding the cleanliness of the rugs inside the mosque. 

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç has claimed that racism and anti-Semitism have never found root in in Turkey, speaking during his visit to the northwestern province of Edirne for the opening of the renovated Great Synagogue.

The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce is organizing the 2015 Trade USA Construction Mission to New York on March 23-27.

This Trade Mission is the second phase of that held in Athens last November, with extensive analysis made regarding the current state of development, design and construction in New York and the new business opportunities that exist for Greek companies.

German architect Frei Otto was named as winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize on March 10, a day after his death at the age of 89, organizers of architecture's top honor said.
      
Otto, renowned for designs which incorporated lightweight tent-like structures, had been informed he had won the accolade shortly before his death, a statement said.
      

VIENNA- The Vienna-based Wiener Stadtische insurance group organized an exhibition on Serbian architecture 'City as a regional context for architecture' in the capital of Austria.

The retrospective includes the forerunners of modern architecture in the period of 1920-1930 and the building momentum of 1945 to 1980, when modernism was accepted as the official "state" style.

The Directorate General of Foundations has taken one minaret of an Istanbul icon, the historical Sultanahmet Mosque with six minarets, under restoration on that grounds that the minaret had shifted.