All articles by Anna Winston – Page 32
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron reveal Lord's masterplan details
New images and details of Herzog & de Meuron’s £400 million revamp of Lord’s cricket ground in London have been revealed today.
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NewsHaworth Tompkins reveal details of National Theatre revamp
Haworth Tompkins has revealed early details of its masterplan for the renovation and extension of Denys Lasdun’s Grade II* listed National Theatre building on London’s South Bank.
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NewsCarbon neutral building ready for Copenhagen summit
Danish practice Christensen & Co has completed work on Denmark’s first carbon neutral public building at the University of Copenhagen.
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Aren't architects meant to design buildings?
Yes, we're talking to you Mr Frank I-collaborate-with-Lady-GaGa Gehry...Gehry designed costumes for a Lady GaGa performance (you know, the really annoying one who likes to repeat her vowels a lot and wear 'avant garde' outfits - no? don't worry, you're not missing out) celebrating the Los Angeles Museum of Arts ...
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Yale School of Architecture finds fashion favour
In a display of both friendship and altruism the king of American preppy fashion Ralph Lauren and his wife Ricky have established a professorship at Yale School of Architecture in memory of Charles Gwathmey.(Charles Gwathmey, picture via Interior Design)No-one knows if there is an afterlife, but if there is it ...
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Libeskind graduates - pics
News Junkie has to confess to a bit of a soft spot for Daniel Libeskind - one of the few high profile characters in architecture today who actually comes across as approachable and, dare we say it, nice...Of course we could be completely wrong. News Junkie overheard one guest reassuring ...
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Backlash at plans to cut Scottish architecture schools' funding
Proposals to cut funding for Scottish architecture schools have prompted an angry response from architects.
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Making solar panels pretty - LIN Architects
These days environmental buzzwords are all over the architectural dialogue like ants on a picnic blanket.But while many architects like to tick the sustainability box by whacking in a few solar panels and some ground source heating, there are few who have actually managed to turn these into striking architectural ...
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NewsSquire wins go-ahead for private home in Mayfair
Squire & Partners has won planning permission for a new private home on Waverton Street in London’s Mayfair conservation area.
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News3XN wins competition to design Danish cultural centre
Danish practice 3XN has won a competition to turn a series of disused freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark, into a 9,000sq m cultural centre.
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Architecture graduate unemployment soars
Unemployment levels among architecture graduates have more than quadrupled in a year according to new figures released this week by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu)
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Cesar Pelli is sued plus the top five architectural films
News Junkie is hanging around the Internet hunting for interesting stories and biding time until the Architect of the Year Awards later tonight, so here's a double whammy post of completely unrelated stories - something serious and something fun.First let's have a quick look at what's happening in Cesar Pelli ...
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Halloween costumes follow up
No-one sent News Junkie any photos of themselves in fancy dress or their architectural pumpkins but we did find these amazing Brooklyn Archocostumes on the Architects Newspaper blog...From left to right - Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art. The bar for ...
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NewsMakki's Syrian private house
Essex-based practice Makki Architectural Services has unveiled a design for a £66,000 (5 million Syrian pounds) 285 sq m pre-fabricated concrete house for a private client on the outskirts of Al Lathqiyah, Syria.
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Award for strangest press release of the month goes to...
The PR agency that sent BD staffers an email titled "I'm the Simon Cowell of Urinals".Unsurprisingly, it's not as interesting as it sounds - if you make it to the end of this ridiculously long press release you have more time on your hands than us!“I’m the Simon Cowell ...
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Celebrities are not a 'special case' when it come to planning
Just when you thought that the UK had become so celebrity obsessed that the rich and famous could get away with pretty much anything, Guildford Borough Council goes and strikes a blow for the ordinary people...Yes, Cheryl Cole, long eyelashes and shiny hair might make you an X Factor judge ...
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Arb wipes architect from register following home extension failings
Arb has “erased” London-based architect Olatunji Olagunju from its register of architects after finding him guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.
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Unemployment triples for new architecture graduates
The number of new architecture graduates unable to find work has almost tripled in the past year.
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The human camera
Most architects have an eye for a nice building, but try looking at a building for twenty minutes and then going away and trying to create a life-like drawing of it. Now try a whole street. Now try a whole city.Seems impossible, right? But British artist Stephen Wiltshire does just ...
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NewsBenoy’s Abu Dhabi theme park shell comes out of its shell
Benoy has revealed new images of the completed shell of its Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi, to coincide with Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix event.