Cityscapes of floating pianos, surreal structures and entranced human beings… This is the art of Eugene Soloviev, the Russian painter featured in Web Urbanist‘s latest newsletter. The thought-provoking images may seem a world away. Yet they echo some of today’s edgier concept buildings - Birmingham’s ‘Bullring‘ and Frank Gehry‘s designs for the University of Technology’s Faculty of [...]

Frasers Property’s landmark Central Park development is starting to take shape in Sydney’s inner suburb of Chippendale.  The scheme’s extensive public parkland is scheduled to open in mid-2011 and I’m particularly excited about Jean Nouvel’s stunning design for the central building, which is to rise from the rubble of the old brickworks, replete with “vertical hanging gardens.” [...]