All International articles – Page 166
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Eisenhower Memorial shortlist announced
Frank Gehry and Moshe Safdie are among the seven architects who have made the shortlist for the competition to design the £60 million National Eisenhower Memorial in Washington DC.
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NewsAustralia’s Woodhead gets fired up for Pinnacles Interpretive Centre ritual
In a nod to traditional aboriginal ceremony, leading Australian architectural and design consultancy Woodhead has set fire to its Pinnacles Interpretive Centre in Western Australia.
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Will Alsop joins ideas 'dream team' for New York's Coney Island
New York’s Municipal Art Society (MAS) has put together a “dream team” of designers and planners to generate ideas for the redevelopment of Coney Island.
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NewsGraeme Massie to design Scottish pavilion for 2009 Kolkata book fair
Graeme Massie Architects has won the competition to design the Scottish pavilion at the Kolkata book fair in India on January 28-February 2009, when the book fair will have a Scottish theme overall.
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NewsBuilding skyscrapers after 9/11 (video)
Foster & Partner’s Michael Wurzel talks to Will Hurst about building skyscrapers in New York after 9/11.
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Paul Andreu to design new arts quarter for Montreal
Paris-based architect Paul Andreu has been appointed for part of Montreal’s controversial Quartier des Spectacles (Entertainment Quarter).
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NewsRMJM wants ‘world record’ for leaning Abu Dhabi Capital Gate tower
RMJM has submitted its leaning Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi to the Guinness Book of Records for recognition as the world’s “most inclined tower”.
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Montreal announces £16.5m planetarium competition
A two-stage competition for a C$33 million (£16.5 million) planetarium for Montreal, Canada, is to be held. The new building will replace the existing 1966 structure.
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NewsTake off at Gensler’s New York terminal
The first planes have taken off from Gensler’s Jet Blue terminal 5 at JFK Airport in New York.
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NewsRevamped Oslo Central Station aims to unify city
Norwegian practice Space Group competition-winning bid to redesign Oslo Central Station hopes to unify the city, which has historically been divided into East and West by two separate transport hubs.
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NewsSwedish practice launches passive house range
Young Swedish practice Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture has developed six new “passive houses”.
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NewsFoster says recession will not force him to cut jobs
Norman Foster has shrugged off the world’s economic woes, vowing that a looming recession will not force Fosters & Partners to make any cuts to its 1,300-strong staff, despite the wave of redundancies hitting the UK.
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NewsVan Egeraat’s Leipzig University is topped out
Erick Van Egeraat’s new building for the University of Leipzig in Germany has celebrated its topping out ceremony.
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NewsHeatherwick’s Shanghai Expo ‘jewel’ hit by row
Curator’s departure from 2010 pavilion comes amid uncertainty over UK’s message
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Foster wins commission to renovate New York’s Public Library
Foster & Partners has won the commission to re-design the New York Public Library in Manhattan as part of a $1 billion plan to transform the entire New York library system.
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NewsOslo scraps Koolhaas library design
Rem Koolhaas’s design for a new central library in Oslo, Norway, has been scrapped, after the city decided to re-locate the library to a site near the Snøhetta designed opera house in Bjørvika.
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NewsAstearchitecture’s platform perches in the Austrian Tyrol
Austrian practice Astearchitecture has designed this steel and timber viewing platform, which perches 3,200m above sea level on Mount Isidor in Tyrol, western Austria.
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American architecture billings index shows drop-off in government work
The latest American Architectural Association’s Architecture Billings Index suggests that previously safe government work has begun to be hit by the credit crunch.
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NewsFuksas' Peres Peace House to open in Israel
A ceremony to inaugurate the Peres Peace House at Jaffa in Israel, by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is to be held this week.