All articles by Anna Winston – Page 24
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NewsPrix's European Central Bank rises as Euro falls
As the Euro continues to fall, the new £740 million European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, Germany, by Wolf D. Prix’s practice Coop Himmelblau has begun to rise out of the ground.
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BlogsThe Pritzker prize ceremony - the place we'd most like to be a fly on the wall
BD's news desk, and indeed the UK architecture profession, have spent most of today worrying about cuts. But such worries appeared to be far from the minds of the attendees of the Pritker prize ceremony last week.
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NewsLDS’s shimmering steel ceiling reflects Moscow market below
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has revealed its fit-out of a three-storey food court for a department store on Moscow’s Tsvetnoy Boulevard.
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De Botton holiday rentals launch
Living Architecture, the organisation set up by Alain de Botton and former Peabody Trust development director Dickon Robinson to bring contemporary architecture to the holiday rental market, has opened for bookings.
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NewsFoster’s to masterplan Imperial War Museum site
The Imperial War Museum has appointed Foster & Partners to masterplan its main site in London.
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NewsAecom creates canopies for 6.8km Brisbane tunnel
Aecom has released new construction pictures of its design for the Aus$3 billion Clem7, a 6.8km-long tunnel that forms the first section of a new motorway in Brisbane, Australia.
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Is the architecture profession corrupt?
Architect and former Harvard lecturer Victoria Beach, writing in Design Intelligence, says architecture is suffering from “institutional corruption”…
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NewsPeter Bishop to chair Architecture Centre Network
Peter Bishop has been named as the new chair of the Architecture Centre Network, the unifying organisation for the UK’s 23 architecture and built environment centres.
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Traditionalist practice invites applications for travel scholarship
Adam Architecture, previously known as Robert Adam Architects, has issued a call for entries for its student travel scholarship.
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NewsWork starts on Pyle Architects’ Cambodia library
Construction work is underway on Pyle Architects’ £1.3 million library for the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
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Niemeyer's masterpiece celebrates its 50th
Brasilia turns 50 this week, prompting a closer look at the success, or otherwise, of the Utopian city while in Lebanon another of Niemeyer's visions of the future crumbles...There's nothing quite like a major birthday to make you sit back, take stock and reassess your life. It's hard to believe ...
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NewsLegion d’honneur award for Rogers partner Mike Davies
Mike Davies, a founding partner of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, has been awarded France’s highest civil order.
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NewsStudio ZA Arhitekturu completes work on the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
Croatian practice Studio ZA Arhitekturu has completed work on the 17,000 sq m Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. The practice won the comission for the publicly funded project through a competition in 1999 and construction work was finally completed at the end of 2009. Founded in 1954, the museum boasts ...
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NewsRogers Stirk Harbour’s profitability hailed by Sunday Times list
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has been named the company with the second fastest growing profits in the UK – according to statistics from 2008.
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A wacky proposal in La La Land
Architect Christian Bay-Jorgensen has come up with one of Hollywood's most startling architectural proposals yet - he wants to transform the Hollywood sign into a series of 90ft tall hotel blocks...News of Bay-Jorgensen's idea filtered through to News Junkies screen via online news site Digital Journal. The idea certainly seems ...
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NewsFoster backs campaign to save Moscow radio tower
Norman Foster has joined a campaign to save a Soviet era radio tower in Moscow.
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AA student wins university accommodation competition
An Architectural Association student has won a competition to design a concept for the future of student accommodation.
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US to launch design excellence programme for diplomatic buildings
American architects have welcomed the announcement of a design excellence programme for US diplomatic buildings.
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FeaturesSound mapping research promises to change how architects design for acoustics
New software plans to turn sound mapping into an everyday tool for architects
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NewsKleihues & Schuwerk wins Oslo Museum competition
Three European practices have been selected as the winners of an international competition to design the new National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design in Norway.