All International articles – Page 124
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NewsBIG wins motorway junction competition with floating sphere design
BIG has won the Stockholmsporten masterplan competition to design an attractive new entrance to Stockholm at the intersection of a massive new motorway junction.
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NewsUS practice Inaba wins Norwegian art commission
Inaba, the Californian architecture and urbanism firm founded by Jeffrey Inaba, has been selected to design a permanent artwork for a new concert hall being built in Stavanger, Norway.The LA-based practice was chosen from a field of six invited international teams by Koro Public Art Norway.Its 8m x 13m cylindrical ...
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NewsArtists may boycott Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Artists are threatening to boycott Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi because of working conditions at the site.According to the New York Times more than 130 artists are proposing a boycott of the museum on Saadiyat Island, which is just beginning construction.Guggenheim Foundation director Richard Armstrong told the paper: “While we ...
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NewsMorrison parachutes in new bosses to run RMJM's Hong Kong office
RMJM has dispatched two senior architects to run its Hong Kong office after it was hit by a series of defections and a blast by a managing principal, angry that staff wages were not being paid on time.Gordon Hood, currently managing principal of the global education studio at Princeton, New ...
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NewsRussian cathedral plan for Paris site sparks spy fears
Franco-Russian practice Sade-Arch has sparked fears of cold war-style espionage in the heart of Paris with its plans for a £30 million Russian Orthodox cathedral beside the Eiffel Tower.
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NewsLondon practice Mossessian wins Moroccan competition
Architect beats hundreds to work on World Heritage Site
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NewsColumbia University opens architecture outpost in Rio
New York architecture school expands global research project
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NewsHadid, Chipperfield and Nouvel shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Buildings by David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel have all been shortlisted for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies van der Rohe Award.The shortlist of six also features Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen.They were shortlisted from 343 ...
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NewsArchitects more optimistic about workloads, says RIBA survey
But concerns raised over fall in foreign projects
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NewsDanish bathing triumph for JDS Architects
Belgian practice JDS Architects has won first prize in a competition to design Faaborg Harbour Bath in the south of Fyn, Denmark.
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NewsWoods Bagot unveils Perth airport scheme
Woods Bagot has revealed its expansion plans for Perth Airport’s international terminal.
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NewsWorking abroad: Brisac Gonzalez
Enthusiasm is the hallmark of this firm’s extensive overseas portfolio
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NewsApollo Architects' Sendai houses survive Japan earthquake
Satoshi Kurosaki of Tokyo-based Apollo Architects has confirmed the two family houses he completed recently in Sendai have survived the earthquake.Lift, finished in the last few weeks, is in a residential district of central Sendai. It is a wooden house on a tight plot, which veers up at the front ...
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NewsSergison Bates designs Chile quake-legacy pavilion
Sergison Bates has designed a community pavilion for a site in Quidico, Chile.
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NewsArchitects urged not to pull out of Japan
Radiation fears prompt many to leave country following earthquake
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NewsBIG wins international timber housing competition
BIG beats 25 rivals to design and construct wooden multi-storey residential buildings in Finland
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NewsShigeru Ban in Japan earthquake aid
Pompidou-Metz Centre designer hands out cardboard partitions for shelters
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NewsSafdie Architects' Artscience Museum opens in Singapore
Safdie Architects’ Artscience Museum has opened in Singapore. It features 10 curved “petals” or “fingers” containing the 21 galleries, which are naturally lit from apertures in the finger tips illuminating the sculptural interior wall forms.The tallest rises 60m above the 4,000sq m “pond” beside which the 6,000sq m museum stands.The ...
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NewsKoolhaas's OMA to be subject of major UK exhibition
London’s Barbican Art Gallery to host exhibition on OMA and its research unit AMO
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NewsUK industry ready to respond to Japan earthquake
Foreign help on standby as scale of damage emerges