All articles by Anna Winston – Page 35

  • Blogs

    Get well soon Ai Wei Wei

    2009-09-24T17:52:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Robert Adam replaces Robert Stern on Chelsea Barracks shortlist

    2009-09-24T11:58:00Z

    Robert AM Stern Architects has dropped out of the competition to design a new masterplan for the troubled Chelsea Barracks development in London.

  • Zaha Hadid
    News

    Hadid made Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate

    2009-09-24T10:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has been awarded the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate for 2009.

  • Students have a culture of not paying for software.
    Features

    Pirates in your practice

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Failure to license software can hit small firms hard

  • Blogs

    News Junkie is on holiday...

    2009-09-15T13:41:00Z

    ... 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.

  • Blogs

    Things are luke-warming up for Atlantic Yards

    2009-09-14T17:40:00Z

    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 ...

  • Blogs

    Darwin Centre freebies

    2009-09-10T08:30:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    ‘Quietest building in the world’ opens in Bristol

    2009-09-10T08:06:00Z

    Capita Architecture’s £11 million Bristol University facility, hailed the quietest building in the world, has opened.

  • Blogs

    The 'rubbish' amphitheater and why we should be wary of being protectionist

    2009-09-09T16:13:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Amin Taha's luxury spa hotel masterplan

    2009-09-09T09:38:00Z

    Amin Taha Architects has revealed the first images of its masterplan for a €115 million luxury spa hotel and housing development in Andalucia, Spain.

  • Blogs

    The return of the architectural satirist

    2009-09-07T16:57:00Z

    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 ...

  • Blogs

    Is architecture like sushi?

    2009-09-02T17:58:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    AIA cautious over jump in monthly billings index

    2009-09-02T13:11:00Z

    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.

  • RMJM's Gazprom tower in Moscow
    News

    Clashes over RMJM's Gazprom tower

    2009-09-02T09:20:00Z

    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.

  • The building could be turned into a business centre.
    News

    Bid to save Scottish architecture centre

    2009-08-28T01:00:00Z

    Adminstrator in talks with funders to bail out Glasgow’s Lighthouse

  • Blogs

    Architectural pornography?

    2009-08-26T18:23:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Hadid’s Chicago pavilion opens two months late

    2009-08-26T09:38:00Z

    Zaha Hadid’s Burnham Pavilion in Chicago has finally opened to the public after weeks of delay.

  • Blogs

    Prince vs Preservationists, Gropius under threat and nudity in New York

    2009-08-25T17:25:00Z

    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 ...

  • Rennie Mackintosh's Lighthouse building
    News

    Glasgow's Lighthouse in administration

    2009-08-25T11:35:00Z

    Board members of The Lighthouse, the Scottish centre for architecture and design, have put the centre into adminstration.

  • News

    Purcell Miller Tritton to design Lewis Carroll visitor centre

    2009-08-25T09:10:00Z

    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.