All articles by Anna Winston – Page 35
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Get well soon Ai Wei Wei
News Junkie is trying very hard to catch up with all the interesting news after a week without Internet access, television or newspapers. There appears to be some movement on Atlantic Yards with a Russian Oligarch stepping in the secure the development's future, but further discussion of Russian oligarchs will ...
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Robert Adam replaces Robert Stern on Chelsea Barracks shortlist
Robert AM Stern Architects has dropped out of the competition to design a new masterplan for the troubled Chelsea Barracks development in London.
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Hadid made Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate
Zaha Hadid has been awarded the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate for 2009.
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News Junkie is on holiday...
... in Greece after finally arranging some proper time off for a belated summer holiday. But never fear, various members of the BD news team will be filling in with some international news round ups and funny stories from the world wide web.
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Things are luke-warming up for Atlantic Yards
Having very publicly dropped Frank Gehry's super expensive but rather popular scheme for the controversial New York Atlantic Yards project, developer Bruce Ratner has taken a bit of a kicking for the new designs.The latest element of the scheme, a $770 million basketball arena designed by SHoP, was unveiled last ...
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Darwin Centre freebies
In these days of financial decline, it is rare for a practice to find itself with clients who have a serious promotion budget for their project. So all feelings of envy should be directed towards CF Møller, architects of the £78 million Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in ...
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‘Quietest building in the world’ opens in Bristol
Capita Architecture’s £11 million Bristol University facility, hailed the quietest building in the world, has opened.
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The 'rubbish' amphitheater and why we should be wary of being protectionist
Today's News Junky round up is truly international, taking in plans for a new 50,000 seat auditorium on a former rubbish dump in Israel, stalled hotels in St Petersburg and an ancient Hindu design philosophy being used by modern architects in India.With so much going on around the world and ...
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Amin Taha's luxury spa hotel masterplan
Amin Taha Architects has revealed the first images of its masterplan for a €115 million luxury spa hotel and housing development in Andalucia, Spain.
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The return of the architectural satirist
Regular readers of News Junkie will remember when we first discovered our favourite architectural cartoonist, Klaustoon. And now he's back from the summer break with a fresh take on prize-winning recluse, Peter Zumthor...To be fair, the competition for our hearts wasn't a difficult one as witty architectural cartoonists seem rather ...
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Is architecture like sushi?
New Junkie brings you a midweek bumper news round up, including the Japanese architect who says architecture is like sushi, the submitted designs for Architect's Michael Jackson memorial competition and the latest from New York's mayor on the Atlantic Yards project.And, on a more serious note, how loopholes in the ...
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AIA cautious over jump in monthly billings index
The American Institute of Architects has warned hopeful professionals not too read too much into a six point jump in its monthly billings index results.
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Clashes over RMJM's Gazprom tower
A public meeting to discuss RMJM’s proposal for a 400m tower in St Petersburg descended into violence on Tuesday, with protesters being forcibly removed by security guards working for the developer, Russian gas giant Gazprom.
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Bid to save Scottish architecture centre
Adminstrator in talks with funders to bail out Glasgow’s Lighthouse
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Architectural pornography?
OMA have always liked to do things a bit differently, but it's unlikely they saw this one coming. In News Junkie's favourite story of the year thus far, Koolhaas' practice has been accused of designing a building that emulates human genitalia. Can you guess which building it is?Apparently the ...
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Hadid’s Chicago pavilion opens two months late
Zaha Hadid’s Burnham Pavilion in Chicago has finally opened to the public after weeks of delay.
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Prince vs Preservationists, Gropius under threat and nudity in New York
It's time for another news round up and this one is quite entertaining, even if News Junkie does say so herself. In Paris, a member of the Qatari royal family is attracting the wrath of architects, but not for the same reasons he would in dear old England. Meanwhile in ...
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Glasgow's Lighthouse in administration
Board members of The Lighthouse, the Scottish centre for architecture and design, have put the centre into adminstration.
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Purcell Miller Tritton to design Lewis Carroll visitor centre
Purcell Miller Tritton has won a commission for a Lewis Carroll Interpretation Centre, to be built at the Cheshire church where the Alice in Wonderland author was born.