All articles by Emily Cadman – Page 6
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Even the deceased are affected by this recession.
We all know that the recession has hit architects hard, but no-one thought the credit crisis would run deep enough to affect the dead. Yet that is exactly what has happened to Eero Saarinen, who has had a retrospective of his work replaced by an exhibition of his father's work ...
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Thom Mayne's Shanghai Dragon
Thom Mayne has stirred the ethical waters with his practice's latest building, a steel, glass and concrete behemoth for a pharmaceutical company in Shanghai, China.Inhabitat describes it as "something between a sci-fi battleship landing on a highway, and a steampunk dragon frozen in time". “In China, you can do ...
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American practices adapt to tough times
While practices in the UK go to great pains to conceal the number of redundancies they've been forced to make over the past few months, American firms seem to be refreshingly frank about the problems they are facing.US Magazine Architectural Record has published a special report titled recession and recovery ...
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Is a recession really good for architects?
When people say that the recession will be good for architecture, what exactly are they talking about? With widespread redundancies across the profession, it certainly seems like it's not good for architects.Edwin Heathcote in today's Financial Times says that what the downturn actually offers is a chance to pause for ...
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A life without rules
Sex, drugs and "honest arrogance", the Independent on Sunday reviews T C Boyle's new novel The Women, based on the life of Frank Lloyd Wright. Read it here.
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Q&A with Zaha Hadid
Zaha in The Guardian on the budget for the Aquatics Centre, her intimidating reputation – and enjoying notoriety.We don't learn a massive amount - other than that she hasn't yet had any involvement with Boris Johnson - but it is a short entertaining read nevertheless.She does get a plug in ...
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An underwater museum for Alexandria?
Ambitious plans for an underwater museum in Egypt, designed by Jacques Rougerie, to display Cleopatra's treasure have been announced.Formidable engineering - and funding - challenges lie ahead, but I know though that if it is built successfully I'll be going to see it!Read more in The Guardian
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Gehry at 80
Frank Gehry turned 80 at the weekend - a useful hook for a raft of retrospective looks at his work in the American press.One of the most interesting was in the LA Times, where in an in-depth interview architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne looks at Gehry's relationship with Los Angeles, how ...
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Adding an 'urban space station' to your building (video)
URBAN SPACE STATION Sofia, Madrid 2008 from cesar harada on Vimeo.This quirky video looks at a project to create urban space station - parasite architecture which can be added to buildings which will filter air, reuse organic waste and grow foodRead more at Jetson Green
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NewsHopkins' Mike Taylor cycles to Mipim in Cannes
Mike Taylor, a director at Hopkins Architects, will be reporting live from the Cycle to Cannes ride for BD. So why is he attempting the daunting 1,500km challenge?
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The bursting of the stararchitect bubble in New York
The New York Times looks at the busting of the stararchitect bubble in New York - in the 1920s and 1930sIt surveys the buildings halted in the 1920s and 1930s, such as International Magazine Building for Hearst Corporation - only six of the planned 13 stories would go up in ...
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The birth of America's skyscrapers (audio slideshow)
This fantastic short audio slideshow from the BBC looks at the early 20th century skyscrapers - in particular New York's Woolworth building and Chicago's Monadnock building - transformed the skylines of the world's cities.The show is narrated by David Reynolds Professor of International History at the University of CambridgeClick here ...
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Playing architecture: BMW cars and Harvard architecture school
The Globe looks at a RMJM funded project at Harvard where by students would be asked to design homes in suburbia using the same concepts and materials that BMW is experimenting with in its revolutionary "cloth car," which has an exterior made of flexible fabric ...
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FeaturesDealing with redundancy
If you're facing redundancy where can you turn to for help? Emily Cadman looks at the practicalities of the redundancy procedure and where to get advice.
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Spiralling skyscraper farms in Manhattan
It seems the idea of urban farms is one that doesn't go away. One of the finalists in this year's Evolo skyscraper competition is this tower which envisages providing New York with a self-sustaining food supplyRead more at Inhabit
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Cambridge University architects' eco-house on the TV
A eco-house based on a medieval building technique timbrel vaulting, which results in a dome shape, will feature on Grand Designs tonightRead more in the Telegraph story
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A peace centre - with panic rooms
The Guardian's Steve Rose visit Israel to review Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas' Peres Peace House.Rose sees it as one of Fuksas' "poetic one-offs" though his piece is peppered with awareness of the irony that is is named after Shimon Peres and "while the Peres Centre arranges for the treatment of ...
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Is the Dubai boom over?
The Guardian's Paul Lewis recounts tales of luxury cars abandoned at the airport, cancelled projects and fleeing workers and asks if the boom is over for Dubai? Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the article comes right at the end when Lewis looks at the possibility of a bailout from ...
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Glancey on the TVCC's trial by fire
Guardian architecture critic Johnathan Glancey takes a look at the outcome of the TVCC tower trial by fire - which is apparently known locally as the Boot or the Termite's Nesthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/11/television-cultural-centre-tower-beijing-fire
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Gehry's modelling software and cost control
Interesting article here in the New York Times on Frank Gehry's modelling software, which he claims allows fabricators to produce a facade with various textures at a price that does not exceed what a developer would pay to build a conventional boxy building of similar dimensions http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/11gehry.html?_r=1