All articles by Anna Winston – Page 26
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Features
Polyark this week: The Radiance Resort and CJ Lim
Polyark welcome a number of new members this week, including the RCA’s Rachel Harding who shared images of a project aimed at making the public more open to the idea of radiation having health benefits.
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Blogs
The Pritzker Prize 2010 - all bets are off
Yes it's that time of year again, the daffodils are finally out and among those who care the anticipation is building for the announcement of the next Pritzker Prize winner on Sunday. Who will win is really anyone's guess, so it's no surprise that William Hill hadn't been taking ...
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NewsPardey gets to work
A £100 million mixed use scheme by John Pardey in north London has started on site.
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NewsHeatherwick’s Stockton-on-Tees power station given green light
Thomas Heatherwick’s plans for a new £150 million biomass power station in Stockton-on-Tees, north east England, have won planning permission after being given the thumbs up by Cabe.
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Blogs
Building waste gets glamorous
In the UK there are whole campaigns aimed at making architects and more aware of the waste they produce on a building project. But in America one architecture practice has moved on from simple recycling...Marmol Radziner do have an advantage in that they make a lot of the elements of ...
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NewsNouvel’s Paris skyscraper scrapped
French architect Jean Nouvel has scrapped plans for 300m-high skyscraper in Paris, after failing to attract investors.
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NewsNouvel to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion
Jean Nouvel has been confirmed as the architect behind the Serpentine Gallery’s 10th summer pavilion.
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NewsHeneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitors centre wins funding
The fundraising campaign to build Heneghan Peng’s visitor’s centre at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland has taken a big step forward with a £9.25 million grant
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Blogs
SFMOMA - the usual suspects plus Adjaye
When Americans want a new architecturally adventurous museum, it seems that they like to stick close to a well worn path. The latest starchitect riddled shortlist to be leaked for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art extension is certainly no exception, despite the rumoured addition of David Adjaye and ...
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NewsMitchell Taylor refurbishes farm house for Holburne director
Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s £300,000 house extension and refurbishment project for Alexander Sturgis, director of Bath’s Holburne Museum of Art, has started on site
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NewsHopkins wins planning for 'greenest' council office
Hopkins Architects has won planning approval for its 23,000 sq m Brent Civic Centre in north west London.
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Blogs
The architecture of a Hollywood blockbuster
The forthcoming Tron movie, hyped to be one of the biggest blockbuster releases of this year, had failed to move us until we discovered that its director actually trained to be an architect...News Junkie stumbled across this fascinating tidbit of information on science fiction site io9, along with the above ...
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NewsChipperfield wins Russian opera house redevelopment
David Chipperfield has won a competition to redevelop the Perm Opera & Ballet Theatre in Perm in Russia.
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NewsHLM’s Scottish eco-homes get underway
Work has started on site on HLM’s PassivHaus homes at the Scottish Housing Expo in Inverness.
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Blogs
Is Alvaro Siza worth more than Amanda Levete?
The Guggenheim is auctioning of a series of art works by architects and artists that offer a revealing insight into what the art world thinks architect's work is worth...To celebrate its 50th anniversary the Guggenheim Museum in New York commissioned a number of artists and architects to create artworks that ...
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron head to Milan
Herzog & de Meuron has revealed images of its latest project, the new headquarters for the Fondazione Feltrinelli at Porto Volta in Milan, Italy.
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Blogs
Architecture's naked lady, Moore on Pitt and Nouvel's messy MoMA
News Junkie's top stories from the weekend; is a naked woman in a project rendering a bit too realistic? Rowan Moore's finally gets round to looking at Brad Pitt's architecture venture in New Orleans; and Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower in New York attracts some unwelcome legal attention. Has Monday ever ...
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NewsTo Mipim by pedal power
Pictures from this year’s Aedas Cycle to Cannes include Christophe Egret in cycling leggings and some of the construction industry’s leading lights participating in some very strange warm up exercises…
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NewsRogers joins campaign to save steel bungalows
Leading architects and developers including Richard Rogers, Ron Arad, Glenn Howells and Peter Palumbo have joined a campaign to save two rare 1970s bungalows in north London by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster
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NewsDanish firm wins International Criminal Court contract despite coming second in competition
Danish architect Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won the contract to build the new €190 million headquarters for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, despite coming second in the competition for the project.