All International articles – Page 139
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NewsGradon Architecture backs student project in Uganda
A fledgling architectural practice in Tyne & Wear and 12 students from Newcastle University have joined forces to help build a children’s village for Aids orphans in Uganda.
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NewsSwiss win for Taylor
Stephen Taylor Architects, in association with Swiss practice Brockmann Stierlin, has won first prize in a competition for a €8 million 5,000sq m housing project near Zurich.
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NewsChipperfield takes heritage prize
David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010.
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NewsGehry's mystery building for Sydney
Frank Gehry’s designs for a building to rival Sydney Opera House have been approved by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
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NewsTributes paid to Bill Mitchell, former architecture dean at MIT
Leading American architect Steven Holl has led tributes to Bill Mitchell, former dean of the MIT School of Architecture and BD columnist, who has died of cancer.
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NewsPiercy Conner Architects’ Restello
An innovative residential block, the winner of Living Steel’s 2006 international architecture competition, has started on site in India.
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NewsCourt boost to RMJM’s Gazprom tower
A Russian court has thrown out an appeal against RMJM’s Gazprom skyscraper in St Petersburg.
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NewsUS green building standards ignore air quality, says report
The American green building accreditation system LEED has come under attack from health researchers who claim it conveys a “false impression of a healthy and safe building environment”.
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NewsNY's High Line wins environmental design award
The High Line in New York has won a D&AD Black Pencil for Environmental Design.
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NewsRussian leaders back opposition to RMJM’s Gazprom tower
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has backed opponents of RMJM’s flagship Okhta Centre in St Petersburg in a major blow to the Gazprom tower project.
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NewsJohn Pawson’s House of Stone
John Pawson’s House of Stone has finished its run at the Salone del Mobile in Milan.The structure, a temporary installation produced in collaboration and lighting specialists KKDC, was made using recycled stone developed by the project’s other collaborator, Salvatori .“Seen from the colonnade the installation was a simple house shaped ...
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NewsZaha Hadid Maxxi museum opens in Rome
Tomorrow sees the long-awaited opening of Maxxi, Zaha Hadid’s National Museum of Twenty First Century Arts, in the Roman suburb of Flaminio.
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NewsWinner announced to build new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has won an international design competition to build a new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International in Geneva.
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NewsLA art museum shortlist includes Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and Foreign Office
American philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad has confirmed a six-strong shortlist for his new art museum in Los Angeles.
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NewsUS survey shows hopes of recovery
Latest results from the American Institute of Architects monthly billings index have bolstered hopes of a recovery for the profession in the US.
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NewsUK practice lands China role
Milton Keynes practice David Lock Associates is the only UK firm invited to work on plans to build a new town in the middle of China.
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NewsPrix's European Central Bank rises as Euro falls
As the Euro continues to fall, the new £740 million European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, Germany, by Wolf D. Prix’s practice Coop Himmelblau has begun to rise out of the ground.
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NewsDan Brill's surfers' bridge is people's choice in California
Hampshire practice Dan Brill Architects has won a People’s Choice award in an international bridge competition on America’s west coast.
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NewsGuggenheim restaurant wins
New York-based architect Andre Kikoski has won the James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Restaurant Design for his design of The Wright restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum