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Tributes to Arthur Erickson and architecture as the new "economic powerhouse"
It's been a sad six months for architecture, losing some of our best and most inventive thinkers in Sverre Fehn, Jan Kaplicky and Jorn Utzon. And now Canada's Arthur Erickson. Sad indeed. On a slightly lighter note, there is hope that the Bird's Nest stadium will finally find some ...
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Brad Pitt, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano and Ordos 100
It's a big day for big names. Renzo Piano has won a new building commission; Brad Pitt unveiled a new list of architects unveiled for his New Orleans project; the recession has a silver lining for an early Frank Gehry building that was due for demolition and there's a roundup ...
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Pascall & Watson get the Louvre and green schools for the US
So, the House of Representatives has passed a bill to build one of the most ambitious schools programmes in recent history. But it's not the first time that something like this has been passed by the House and ignored by the Senate. Fingers crossed it goes through this time.Elsewhere ...
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Is Russia telling porkies about their Olympic site?
Looks like Russia has been rumbled. Apparently their "big building site" for the 2014 Winter Olympics has hardly been touched and is hosting guerrilla gardeners.And poor Calatrava, whose design for the World Trade Centre transport hub took a bit of a battering earlier this week, has now had his design ...
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Knocking down Mies and Russia's Olympics
Apparently, Russia is ahead of schedule for delivering the 2014 Winter Olympics site. Fingers crossed it's more Bird Nest than Broadcast Centre.And one Chicaho tribune blogger argues that it's ok to known down a Mies building because it's not so pretty - blasphemy or a fair point?Olympic Projects Ahead of ...
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Piano downsized, Parrault wins Sofia and Libeskind extends the Jewish Museum
Some big news for some big name architects today - Libeskind wins the jammy job of adding to his own design with a Euro 10million extension.And Dominique Perrault gets to design the entire city centre for the beautiful town of Sofia. The news doesn't seem to be so good for ...
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RMJM defies the trend and Aussies get protected
A year ago, News Junkie could name at least ten practices that were talking about opening branches in the Middle East. How times change. Now the news that RMJM has enough work to open three new offices in Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey is is almost shocking. At least we know ...
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Cesar Pelli's new museum and planners in crisis
The more environmentally worthy among you may have taken time out to celebrate Earth Day yesterday. But in New York it was a chance to try and turn the entire building stock green. Beat that.However, it's not all green tinted glasses. One city council in America has taken the decision ...
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Why Koolhaas thinks the global recession could be a "healthy thing"
As the global recession has tightened its grip on the construction industry, many have been muttering about the end of iconic architecture. Now Rem Koolhaas has waded in with his own take.The Architectural Record looks at the impact of the 88,000 industry job cuts in the first quarer of this ...
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Libeskind is optimistic, Ordos 100 and race in architecture
It's always nice to hear some cheery words from a Starchitect, especially one who can stay optimistic about a $8.6 billion project when it hits trouble. So hats off to Libeskind.Elsewhere, race is back on the agenda, stimulus money is being spent and British architects are advised not to ...
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Freelon's winning streak and a pedestrian-friendly Abu Dhabi
In News Junkie today we take a look at an interview with Philip Freelon (who is designing the new Smithsonian with Adjaye), glance at plans to make Abu Dhabi more pedestrian friendly and – shock horror – the New York Times has realised architects are having a tough time...Freelon's winning ...
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'Bright spots' in Australia, Zumthor pics and more drama in India
Peter Zumthor’s Pritzker win is still dominating the architectural headlines, but Mass Studies 2010 pavilion and ‘bright spots’ in Australia also caught BD’s eye today. Elsewhere, thousands of Indian architects face being stripped of their title as the government continues to express unhappiness with the CoA.Korean Pavilion at Expo 2010 ...
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Claws out for India's Council of Architecture
International news junkie has been floored by a nasty cold but is back with "sick" buildings in Greece, Shigeru Ban in Aspen and a juicy story from India, where a row over the role of the Council of Architects is brewing. Architecture Council in nominee warIndia's Council of Architecture is ...
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Gensler's San Fran art museum and designing through a depression
Most of the international stories that have caught BD's eye today have come from the states, including a thoughtful piece on Designing Through a Depression and news on projects by Zaha and Libeskind.SFMOMA Plans AheadIn San Francisco, plans are afoot for a major new art gallery extension by Gensler. According ...
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An attack on Italy's lack of earthquake proof architecture and zero energy housing in Malaysia
It's been a bumper day for international news from Italy, to Russia to PolandThe eathquake disaster in Italy has revealed the country's sub-standard buildings and lack of quake-proof architecture, according to Red OrbitMiami City Leaders are voting on whether or not to designate the Bacardi buildings as historic structures despite ...
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Michigan problems for Hadid, Facebook launch for AIA
In today's international news digest, problems for Hadid in Michigan, the AIA launches into Facebook and Sibir Sues Chigirinsky for $328MHadid-Designed Broad Museum on Hold in MichiganA new museum designed by Zaha Hadid for the Michigan State University has been put on hold as questions are raised over the funding ...
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Defending LA's architecture
Believe that LA is an architectural wasteland? One blogger wants you to think again with their defense of the city's architectural heritage.Read more at Decider LA
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After the New York real estate bubble
$5bn of real estate development has been delayed or cancelled in New York since November, according to the New York Times.These beyond-monopoly numbers raise the question of whether anything is being built at all in what had been a major boom town for cutting edge architecture.Johnathan Mahler looks at how ...
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Gehry at 80
Frank Gehry turned 80 at the weekend - a useful hook for a raft of retrospective looks at his work in the American press.One of the most interesting was in the LA Times, where in an in-depth interview architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne looks at Gehry's relationship with Los Angeles, how ...
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The bursting of the stararchitect bubble in New York
The New York Times looks at the busting of the stararchitect bubble in New York - in the 1920s and 1930sIt surveys the buildings halted in the 1920s and 1930s, such as International Magazine Building for Hearst Corporation - only six of the planned 13 stories would go up in ...
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