All America articles
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BlogsMiami – Paradise and Paradox
Miami is a tale of two cities; Miami Beach: infamous playground of the rich; and its bitter, underdeveloped and forgotten creator; Greater Miami.
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BlogsThe Architecture of Embarrassment
There are seven different ways to embarrass an architect, or so we are told.
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Blogs'Pre-fab' or 'Post-flap'
Forget pre-fab, it seems the latest trend may be better off titled ‘post-flap’.
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BlogsDon’t call me Starchi-Shirley
News Junkie could be forgiven for thinking it was April 1st when the news broke that Frank Gehry had graced Playboy’s pages.
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BlogsPapier Mache Parametrics
Word reaches news junkie’s ears from the blogosphere that our own favourite starchitect, Zaha Hadid, has been sculpturally immortalised.
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BlogsMap making with Koolhaas
How’s your cognitive map? That’s the burning question that strangely enough, Psychological scientists are dying to ask architects.
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BlogsAnother Ground Zero row breaks out
A row has broken out Stateside over the plans to replace The Winter Gardens at Ground Zero, one of the first pieces of Ground Zero to be rebuilt after the 9/11 attacks, with a deisgn by Cesar Pelli’s son.
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BlogsVanity Fair reveals vanity voting behind list of best modern buildings
A survey to find the best building since 1980 has revealed some unusally brazen vanity voting, the truth behind traditionalists claims to 'not have a problem' with modern buildings and that competition doesn't awlays brred resentment...
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Is the architecture profession corrupt?
Architect and former Harvard lecturer Victoria Beach, writing in Design Intelligence, says architecture is suffering from “institutional corruption”…
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A wacky proposal in La La Land
Architect Christian Bay-Jorgensen has come up with one of Hollywood's most startling architectural proposals yet - he wants to transform the Hollywood sign into a series of 90ft tall hotel blocks...News of Bay-Jorgensen's idea filtered through to News Junkies screen via online news site Digital Journal. The idea certainly seems ...
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Should the donor get final say?
The University of South Carolina certainly seems to think so. It's sparked controversy by apparently allowing the biggest donor for its new business school building to choose its architect - with Rafael Viñoly winning the commission."In a move that's been called unprecedented, USC canceled all bids to hire an architect ...
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Building waste gets glamorous
In the UK there are whole campaigns aimed at making architects and more aware of the waste they produce on a building project. But in America one architecture practice has moved on from simple recycling...Marmol Radziner do have an advantage in that they make a lot of the elements of ...
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SFMOMA - the usual suspects plus Adjaye
When Americans want a new architecturally adventurous museum, it seems that they like to stick close to a well worn path. The latest starchitect riddled shortlist to be leaked for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art extension is certainly no exception, despite the rumoured addition of David Adjaye and ...
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Is Alvaro Siza worth more than Amanda Levete?
The Guggenheim is auctioning of a series of art works by architects and artists that offer a revealing insight into what the art world thinks architect's work is worth...To celebrate its 50th anniversary the Guggenheim Museum in New York commissioned a number of artists and architects to create artworks that ...
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Keeping records
It is always sad when a great architect dies and their office is disbanded. Years of work including architectural drawings and sketches end up on the rubbish tip.So let's give a big cheer for the State Preservation Office and Archives of Michigan, USA, who have joined forces to save World ...
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US Embassy round up
The winning design for America's new embassy building in London has finally been unveiled, but it hasn't won everyone over.First there were reports of a fight "to the death" between jury members Richard Rogers and Lord Palumbo and their American counterparts, then Fox News weighed in with an attack on ...
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"A defining achievement to the citizens of Miami, America, and the world..."
There can be few architects out there who, looking at the Burj Khalifa in awe and wonderment, think "but it's not quite tall enough."If you are among them, you'll love this new proposal for a 3,200ft skyscraper in Miami.It seems that in America, nothing was big, gold and dumb enough. ...
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Practices with blogs
Just before Christmas one of New Junkie's favourite bloggers Swiss Miss asked her readers to name architectural practices with a blog integrated into their website...She got 103 replies, of which a few were either not architects at all or weren't worth the effort to click on the link. But the ...
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Is architecture like sushi?
New Junkie brings you a midweek bumper news round up, including the Japanese architect who says architecture is like sushi, the submitted designs for Architect's Michael Jackson memorial competition and the latest from New York's mayor on the Atlantic Yards project.And, on a more serious note, how loopholes in the ...