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Prince vs Preservationists, Gropius under threat and nudity in New York
It's time for another news round up and this one is quite entertaining, even if News Junkie does say so herself. In Paris, a member of the Qatari royal family is attracting the wrath of architects, but not for the same reasons he would in dear old England. Meanwhile in ...
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Calatrava justifies his budget and Holl revels in controversy
News Junkie is back with the news round up which today features an Australian ex-Trade Union boss and Calatrava justifying the huge price tag for the World Trade Centre hub.Plus Stephen Holl enjoying controversy in Norway, the nano homes that could help solve Mumbai's chronic shortage of affordable housing and ...
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Feeling seasick
What is it about super yachts and architects? First there was Norman Foster for YatchPlus, a big, matt grey hulk of a boat that looked like it might belong in Michael Bay's Transformers films. And now this...CNN compares the Oculus yatch to a killer whale, which is a bit unfair ...
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A shiny shortlist and fast-tracking the registration process in Japan and New Zealand
If only all competitions made the shortlist public... the entries for the Calgary National Music Centre tell you nearly everything you need to know about the practices on the shortlist.In other news, the UAE struggles to produce innovative architects says a local tutor (not really news, but nice to ...
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The march of BIM and 'ghost architecture'
While some people (News Junkie included) still value the old-fashioned architectural drawing, there's no denying BIM has some advantages and planners love it. Wisconsin is just the latest area of the world to begin demanding BIM models in the early stages of planning.Meanwhile in New York, there are signs of ...
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An Obamy urban policy?
It has finally happened; Obama has remembered that Urban regeneration was a key part of his pre-election policies. You can watch the video of his speech on the White House website, but cynics like News Junkie will want actions rather than words.Elsewhere, Murcutt blames fusty planning officials for lacklustre architecture ...
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Benetton has designs on Tehran
Benetton has made a name for itself by being controversial. Its clothes might be mind-numbingly dull, but its advertising campaigns were unforgettably shocking in the early 90s. And now the fashion brand has found a new way to attract attention - although it can't possibly have predicted quite how controversial ...
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America's climate change bill, architectural sudoku spin off and Gehry's new shack
It's been a busy few days in the architecture journalism world; Frank Gehry, airports in India, an Israeli architect's Sudoku spin off, America's Climate Change bill, Guerrilla architects in Sydney...It's a bumper edition of international news junkie, but one we hope will leave you very satisfied indeed.House Passes Bill ...
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Moscow takes matters into its own hands, Rem gets reduced and RMJM eyes up Iraq
All those projects that have gone on hold in Moscow may get a new lease of life after City Hall showed a bit of initiative and took matters into its own hands by setting up a group to buy land off the developers.Elsewhere in the world Rem Koolhaas' tower in ...
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Ennis House hits the market and Dubai is down but not out
Despite the best efforts of the Ennis House Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright's house has hit the market and is being sold as a private property for a cool $15 million. Seems that keeping the house in good working order was just too expensive for the Foundation to keep paying out.Also ...
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Libeskind goes prefab and Frank Lloyd Wright's equal opportunities approach
It seems that Frank Lloyd Wright, a man whose relationships with women in his private life are infamously scandalous, was actually an early leader in employing female architects. So no more excuses from the profession please; if it could be done then then there's no reason why women shouldn't be ...
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Elitism in Australia and Renzo Piano on working through the recession
Renzo says his studio isn't really feeling the effects of the recession, which is nice for him if a little galling for everyone that is. But that doesn't mean he isn't empathetic. Apparently, after the Pompidou, Renzo got no work for years and he now sees leaner times as an ...
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Aravena wins Marcus Prize and Greater Paris gets scaled back
Alajandro Aravena must be among the most worthy winners of a big architectural cash prize in recent history. If you read BD's big piece on him you'll understand why. Also in today's news round up: The recession claims another victim in the US, with inter-disciplinary artist and architect Vito Acconci ...
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New York New York plus Graft's Russian Jewish Museum
It's a pretty New York heavy news round up today, with more rumblings from Atlantic Yards, the opening of the High Line and New York University's new building proposal.Thom Mayne has been announced as artist in residence for the LA film festival, and SanDiegoans (is that right?) are protesting against ...
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Boris takes a dip, Australia changes its planning system and Canada gives out some medals
News Junkie will happily remember this day as The Day That Boris Fell In The River. But local councils in New South Wales, Australia, will remember this day less fondly as the day they lost a large chunk of their planning powers. And some pleased architects in Canada will ...
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A new island development for Abu Dhabi and more rumours about Gehry's Atlantic Yards
Just when you thought that work in the Middle East was drying up, along comes Abu Dhabi with plans for a while new island district. The question is, will it be an island of starchitects a la Saadiyat Cultural Island, or something a little more accessible?In New York there's more ...
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Foster's green light in Moscow and sad news from LA
So, yesterday News Junkie was wondering what to give Norman Foster for his birthday and got some entertaining responses (some not suitable for publishing). But now the city of Moscow has trumped us all by coughing up the funds for Foster's stalled Zaryadye project.It's a sad day in LA as ...
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Does Rem Koolhaas really harbour a "contempt for sustainability"?
The claws are out at Cornell University in the US, where a new campus building by OMA for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has caused a bit of a row. The building has finally been given the green light, but not without its opponents lashing out at Rem ...
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Top 50 practices in the US, Kaufman latest victim of recession and the Ordos prize
It's not often that a major new international prize is launched that actually seems to be taken pretty seriously by the architectural community. And it's even rarer to hear about one from Asia. In fact the Ordos Prize is China's first international architecture prize. News junkie can't wait to see ...
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New York's not-so-mean streets, a BIM council and a pleased Libeskind
There's been a lot of trumpeting in the American press about the experimental closure of Broadway in New York. But the story behind it is much more interesting and could lead to a complete transformation of transport in the city.Elsewhere in the world, the National Geographic presents the cities of ...
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