All Archive Titles articles – Page 120
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City limits
Thirteen UK cities from early favourite Bradford to rank outsider Inverness are vying to become Europe's Capital of Culture in 2008. They all want to emulate the 'Glasgow effect' of 1990, but is the title worth the millions now being spent on campaigns?
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Chipperfield in Spain
David Chipperfield Architects is in vogue in Spain. The practice has won the competition for the urban design of the city of Teruel in eastern Spain and has been shortlisted to design Barcelona's law courts.
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Utrecht centre shows its metal
Building exteriors made from a single material are fashionable in the Netherlands.
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Two vie for California dream
Two European stars are to battle it out for a major museum commission in Los Angeles, California.
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Mixed fortunes for Calatrava
You win some, you lose some, as Santiago Calatrava has discovered over the past few months.
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Blaess is star of space hotel
Recycling is a must in today's sustainable age. Sorting tins and paper is all very well, but space shuttle fuel tanks?
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Belgians get a taste of the future
'Houses of the future' are often thought to be something of the past. They flourished in the 1950s and 1960s and promised us a comfortable future that never came. But this has not prevented the Belgian consortium Living Tomorrow from building model homes.
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Hyett is right to be outraged over Rogers' removal from Welsh assembly
In a world of spin, Paul Hyett's forthright condemnation of the sacking of Richard Rogers is refreshing (December 2001, page 27).Reneging on Zaha Hadid's opera house was bad enough for Cardiff's reputation, but firing Tony Blair's favoured architect is about as ill-judged as you can get.Bungled government projects are neither ...
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Arne Jacobsen
Arne JacobsenCarsten Thau and Kjeld VindumDanish Architectural Press£50The quintessential Scandinavian architect-designer, Arne Jacobsen tackled everything from buildings and gardens to chairs and teaspoons, and a comprehensive monograph is long overdue. More than 10 years in the making, this fine, well translated book does justice to his manifold achievements.The first section, ...
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Wordplay: What do theoretical journals offer the practising architect?
Considering that the journal is owned by the RIBA, and that its members get a hefty discount, it is surprising that so few of them subscribe.
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Ando plans Paris 'spaceship'
Tadao Ando's UK fans don't get many opportunities to admire his buildings close-up – but all that is about to change.
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Ando in double arts deal
Hot on the heels of opening his Armani headquarters in Milan, Tadao Ando has picked up two major new museum projects on either side of the Atlantic.
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Amsterdam heads south
A new city centre is now under construction on the south side of Amsterdam.
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Coop's American coup
The Akron Art Museum in Ohio is the latest American art institution to appoint a European architect to extend its premises.
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Wales cannot afford to be so short-sighted
Many people in Wales share the frustration evident in the presidential Exocet that Paul Hyett fired at the Welsh assembly.
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Tschumi plans modern Acropolis for Athens
Athens is to get an Acropolis museum to house the Parthenon sculptures, including the famous Elgin Marbles – that's if the UK decides to return them.
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Richard Meier's abstract art
Richard Meier has presented his design for the Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany, in a public exhibition at the town's art gallery.
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Koolhaas' Prada opens – finally
It took almost two years, it covers 1950m2 and its costs are so secret that the client has not even fully revealed them to the architect, but Rem Koolhaas' Prada store in New York finally opened shortly before Christmas.
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Top 300 alphabetical index
Alphabetical index of Top 300 A 130 A Epstein & Sons International 600 West Fulton, Chicago, Illinois 60661, USA tel +1 312 454 9100 fax +1 312 559 1217 information@epstein-isi.com www.epstein-isi.com Mickey Kupperman, chief executive 64 ...
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Top 300 Tables (overall rankings)
Growth sector?This year's table shows that the biggest practices are getting bigger. Japanese multidisciplinary mega-firm Nikken Sekkei – number one for the second year running – has 15 more fee-earning architects than last year; runner-up Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum has grown by 43; third-placed Gensler has added 60 architects.Because the ...