All International articles – Page 175
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Building StudyPorphyrios Associates' Princeton University Whitman Building
The new Whitman Building at Princeton uses campus gothic to great effect, and even makes modernism look a little wan
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MultimediaVideo: Newspaper House by Sumer Erek and Schenk Perfler Architects
An interview with the artist and architects behind the interactive public art installation Newspaper House, which makes use of discarded newspapers collected in London.
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MultimediaNew York Winter Nights: G Tects
The Architecture Foundation’s project to bring young New York architects to London continued last week with a talk by G Tects’ Gordon Kipping.
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MultimediaAudio: Three radio shows from Amenity Space
Architect duo Amenity Space have been spreading their passion for design over the airwaves. Listen to three episodes from their series on arts radio station Resonance FM.
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Building StudyNew talent in New York
Following the Architecture Foundation’s New York showcase of young UK architects last year, it has now invited four up-and-coming New York practices to speak in London. Will Hunter met them
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s scheme for Escher-Wyss Platz, Zurich
Caruso St John, working with German artist Thomas Demand on two buildings for a public square in Zurich, makes a quietly political point about the human costs of regeneration, based on China’s infamous ’Nail House’
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Building StudyNew York’s architecture goes ‘bling’
New York’s upper class is employing star architects to put its wealth on display, reports Adrian Dannatt
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News
Top architecture firms in Europe
In 2008, French firm Valode & Pistre Architects topped the BD World Architecture list of firms operating in Central and Eastern European, with BDP International taking the top spot for Western Europe.
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News
Economic prospects in the Middle East
Governments are investing heavily in public building projects in preparation for an economic future beyond oil
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Building StudyBD's buildings of 2007
Ellis Woodman looks back at the architectural highs and lows of 2007, and top architects pick their favourite buildings of the year
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OpinionFight over Gazprom tower symbolises modern Russian politics
As the row escalates over RMJM’s controversial tower, Elaine Knutt visits St Petersburg and discovers Gazprom is caught up in wider political battles
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Building StudySanaa's New Museum in NYC
Sanaa’s New Museum is a startling tower of boxes in the heart of New York’s Bowery district, but the inside doesn’t live up to the outside, reports Adrian Dannatt
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Building StudyFreewheeling in Beijing
It’s not only the 2008 Olympics that are transforming Beijing’s skyline. Architecture is being used to express China’s phenomenal economic growth. Ellis Woodman went to take a look
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MultimediaVideo clips: Gillespie Kidd & Coia
Watch clips from two films on the work of Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein from the Gillespie Kidd and Coia show
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Building StudyMoneo’s Prado extension hedges its bets
In the week the Madrid Prado gallery’s long-awaited extension opens, Ellis Woodman speaks to its architect Rafael Moneo about the project
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Building StudyZumthor’s Cologne modern art museum is beyond time
Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building.
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Building StudyA brick is a brick for Dutch practice Wingender Hovenier
This Dutch practice is representative of a new generation of European architects who are rejecting recent architecture’s ironic posturing in favour of something fundamentally contextual, says Paul Shepheard
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MultimediaAudio clip: Ellis Woodman talks to Eliasson and Thorsen
Hear BD's buildings editor interview the creators of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, which opens this week
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Building StudyBeyond Babel: the work of Swiss architect Peter Märkli
After two decades spent designing houses, Peter Märkli is at last building at a substantial scale. Ellis Woodman reports on why the Swiss architect is currently one of the most vital voices in Europe
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MultimediaVideo clip: Peter Märkli talk at London Met
See a short clip from Peter Märkli’s 4-hour lecture given at the London Metropolitan University last November