All Archive Titles articles – Page 102
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Archive TitlesCrossing over
Nobody visits Bruges to see contemporary architecture. But, to mark its year as European Capital of Culture, Toyo Ito and Jurg Conzett have designed two footbridges that are easing the city into the 21st century.
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Competitions
Waterford docklands masterplanIreland's Office for Public Works is inviting submissions for an open competition to masterplan a 7ha docklands regeneration scheme for Waterford North Quays in the south-east of the country. The competition, which is offering €500,000 (US$470,000) in prizes, includes a major new cultural building for the city. Deadlines ...
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Three schemes vie for Canadian War Museum
Three schemes are under consideration for the Canadian War Museum, due to start on site in Ottawa this autumn.The design team is a joint venture between Moriyama & Teshima Architects of Toronto and Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects of Ottawa. The first design, Composition of Fragments, is a horizontal structure with ...
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Building types
The shortlisted buildings are also competing for six building type awards. The categories are: industrial, leisure, housing, education, public and cultural, and commercial
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Archive TitlesMexico's Ten scoops Brooklyn library
Enrique Norten of Ten Arquitectos has won an invited competition to design New York's first Visual and Performing Arts Library
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Archive TitlesSpecial blend
Mixed use is one thing, but designing a fire station-cum-cultural centre takes some ingenuity. Here's how Cukrowicz Nachbaur did it, and why the project came to be built in a village of just 1600 people.
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Rogers lands Birmingham library
British practice beats Moshe Safdie, Snøhetta, Michael Hopkins and Wilkinson Eyre to landmark scheme in UK's second city
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Archive TitlesGeddes' biology
In Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life, Volker Welter attempts to define the contribution that the botanist, town planner, artist, ecologist, sociologist and conservationist made to our modern view of the city.
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Archive TitlesBehnisch to explore oceans in Germany
Gunter Behnisch has won the competition to design a €50m (US$47m) expansion of the German oceanographic museum in Stralsund
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Archive TitlesGaudímania hits Barcelona
Antonio Gaudí has attracted vehement admirers and detractors since he graduated from Barcelona's School of Architecture in 1878. This year the city is marking the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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Archive TitlesAnd the band played on …
London-based Niall Mclaughlin Architects has completed this bandstand at the De La Warr Pavilion, Mendelsohn and Chermayeff's art deco classic in Bexhill, south-east England.The bandstand has been completed in advance of John McAslan + Partners' £7m (US$10.1m) refurbishment of the 1935 building.Work will start on the project next year.
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Archive Titles'I'm back': Utzon unveils Sydney plan
83-year-old architect to lead refurbishment that will implement many of his original proposals for his masterpiece
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Lightning strikes Rome's looted Axum Obelisk
Two months of restoration are required before the 1800-year-old funerary stone can return to Ethiopia
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Archive TitlesEco-hotel built near Australian landmark
Architect Cox Richardson has completed a hotel of demountable pavilions near Uluru, formerly known as Ayer's Rock, in central Australia
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Archive TitlesVentura smacks down arts plan
Ex-wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura slashes funding for Jean Nouvel, Cesar Pelli and Michael Graves buildings
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Italy found guilty of barring foreign architects
The Italian government has been ordered to liberalise its laws restricting architects who qualified in other European Union states from working in the country
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Ground Zero architect slated
New York Times critic and MoMA chief slam appointment of 'lacklustre' Beyer Blinder Belle