All articles by Anna Winston – Page 40
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Mousavi the architect
Architects on the web have latched on to the fact that Mir Hossein Mousavi, the politician at the centre of the Iranian uprising, is an architect. These are the facts that News Junkie has managed to gather about Mousavi the architect...Studied architecture at the University of Tehran (now known as ...
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Moscow takes matters into its own hands, Rem gets reduced and RMJM eyes up Iraq
All those projects that have gone on hold in Moscow may get a new lease of life after City Hall showed a bit of initiative and took matters into its own hands by setting up a group to buy land off the developers.Elsewhere in the world Rem Koolhaas' tower in ...
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OpinionMousavi the architect
The Western world is gripped by the pictures, video footage and twitter correspondence still flooding out of Iran despite the ruling party’s best efforts to stem the flow - and in almost all of the sympathetic coverage, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been described as an artist and architect.
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NewsOlympic media centre wins planning
The Olympic Delivery Authority has won planning permission for the International Broadcast Centre and main press centre on the Olympic Park site in Stratford, after last-minute alterations were made to the designs.
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NewsNational Trust launches fundraising campaign for Giants Causeway
The National Trust has launched a public campaign to raise £2.25 million towards Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway million visitor’s centre.
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NewsOMA triumphs in China’s Crystal Island contest
OMA has won first prize in an international design competition to develop a proposal for a creative centre in the city of Shenzhen, China.
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Ennis House hits the market and Dubai is down but not out
Despite the best efforts of the Ennis House Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright's house has hit the market and is being sold as a private property for a cool $15 million. Seems that keeping the house in good working order was just too expensive for the Foundation to keep paying out.Also ...
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ReviewBoym celebrate architecture’s black list
Models of buildings made notorious through disaster have been the stock in trade of New York product design studio Boym
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FeaturesWhy slime oozes appeal for the planet’s future
Anna Winston meets Rachel Armstrong the doctor turned sci-fi writer and pioneer of ‘living architecture’
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NewsSt Pancras architect honoured with CBE
Alastair Lansley, lead architect on the St Pancras redevelopment, has gained a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to transport-related buildings.
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Richard Rogers Vs. Prince Charles
Forget the rumble in the jungle, the battle for Chelsea is far more juicy. News Junkie rounds up this week’s coverage of round two in the epic prize fight between Richard Rogers and Prince Charles.Prasad dismayed as Rogers loses Chelsea Barracks jobRIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at Prince ...
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Hadid's Chicago pavilion delayed and a win for Calatrava
News Junkie is feeling pretty news-ed out today, what with the Chelsea Barracks round-up and BD's press day. But it's also been a busy day for everyone else, especially Calatrava who is hopefully celebrating winning a commission to design a new university campus in California.And Zaha's Burnham Pavilion design is ...
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Libeskind goes prefab and Frank Lloyd Wright's equal opportunities approach
It seems that Frank Lloyd Wright, a man whose relationships with women in his private life are infamously scandalous, was actually an early leader in employing female architects. So no more excuses from the profession please; if it could be done then then there's no reason why women shouldn't be ...
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Elitism in Australia and Renzo Piano on working through the recession
Renzo says his studio isn't really feeling the effects of the recession, which is nice for him if a little galling for everyone that is. But that doesn't mean he isn't empathetic. Apparently, after the Pompidou, Renzo got no work for years and he now sees leaner times as an ...
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NewsMather starts again after Oxford quad plan falters
Rick Mather Architects has been forced to go back to the drawing board over its proposed £45 million quadrangle for Oxford University’s Keble College after heritage groups and the council objected to the demolition of a listed building
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NewsAlsop tops list of world’s most creative people in architecture
Will Alsop has beaten Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron to be named number one in a list of the world’s 10 most creative people in architecture.
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NewsBeijing buildings dominate Lubetkin shortlist
The RIBA has announced a six strong shortlist of nominees for the Lubetkin Prize for the best international building by a RIBA member, selected from the list of 15 RIBA International Award winners.
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NewsDeveloper ditches Gehry basketball arena for New York Atlantic Yards
Frank Gehry’s design for the New York Nets basketball arena, at the centre of the troubled $4 billion Atlantic Yards scheme, has been scrapped.
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Kay Andrews to chair English Heritage
New culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has named Kay Andrews as the new chair of English Heritage.