All Archive Titles articles – Page 139
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US - Holl breaks into glass
Steven Holl Architects has been selected to design the new studio building for Cornell University's School of Architecture in Ithaca, New York.The building marks a new use of materials for Holl: the 'hypercube'-shaped studio will have one aluminium facade and three of structural glass. Environmentally-sensitive elements – such as natural ...
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Breaking contract
The Milanese setting was beautiful, the furniture designs dazzling, but where does contract furniture sit in Salone Internazionale del Mobile's glamorous arena?
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Book makers
Anderson Anderson: Architecture and Construction.Introduction by Donlyn LyndonPrinceton Architectural Press, New YorkUS$35 (softback original).192pp. 100 colour and 100 b/w illustrations.Seattle-based brothers Mark and Peter Anderson practise architecture holistically. Not in the way the early Modernists did, but as an art form both grounded in culture and wed to construction and ...
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Before the fall
Architects know they are always the first to suffer in an economic downturn, but an emotional rather than strategic approach still rules their business plans. Naomi Stungo warns that a longer term view is needed.
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Australia - Double vision for MCA
Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton have won the competition to redesign Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.As briefed, the Anglo-German pairing has come up with two visions, both of which are bold and startling. The first keeps the existing Art Deco sandstone building, placing over it a new glass structure rising ...
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Australia - Brisbane bids for region's cultural lead
An international competition to design the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art will be launched later this month. The A$118 million (US$60 million) building marks the first phase of an A$260 million (US$133 million) redevelopment of Brisbane's cultural quarter.Local architect Cox Rayner has been appointed to masterplan the project which also ...
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Australia, Oceania and Pacific Rim
Berman HouseNew South Wales, AustraliaHarry Seidler & AssociatesResidentialBerman House is a wilderness house built at the crest of a rugged escarpment against a rock platform and overlooking a winding river. Following the rocky plateau, the house is arranged on two levels, with a glazed living room below a bedroom wing, ...
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Spain - Mies prize for auditorium
The Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium in San Sebastian by Rafael Moneo has won the Mies van der Rohe prize for the best work completed in the European Union in the last two years. The beachfront building features two auditoriums encased in angled prisms of translucent glass, recalling 'beached or ...
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UK/Web - Netting an attraction
The holiday season is fast approaching, and for those with an architectural fixation what better to do while taking a break than visit an architectural landmark or event. But where to find a building or exhibition near your holiday destination, that is the problem.Or is it? Thanks to the wonders ...
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East Asia
APC BuildingTokyo, JapanPaul ChemetovOffice/retailThe project is in Daikanyama, a dense residential area in the centre of Tokyo, so is therefore subject to constraints on its massing, volume and materials. Simplicity of design is intended to be easily readable in an heterogenous urban context.The building for French clothing firm APC comprises ...
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Asia
Ahmedabad Management AssociationAhmedabad, IndiaHCP Design and Project ManagementEducationThe Ahmedabad Management Association provides management education, runs extension programmes for the community, and provides facilities for other institutions' academic programmes. The ground floor of its building has an entrance foyer, a bookshop, four large and four small classrooms, administrative offices, and a ...
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Switzerland - Art on the map in Zurich
Just how does a budding artist get noticed in a world dominated by farm animals drowned in formaldehyde and paintings created from elephant dung? Well, if the artist lives in or around Zurich, Switzerland, a trip to the local tyre fitter is a good place to start.Internally this two storey ...
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UK - Libeskind's new angle on Hyde Park
The first UK building designed by Daniel Libeskind opens this month, although it will be demolished three months later.The Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park commissioned Libeskind to design a temporary structure accommodating a café and auditorium.Zaha Hadid designed a similar structure last year.
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North America
North America216 Alabama Lawrence, Kansas, USStudio 804ResidentialStudio 804 designs investigative architecture that educates both student and community. This year's project integrated architectural forms with the discipline of an affordable budget and universal design guidelines, and the opportunities to use sustainable materials, such as recycling the concrete formwork as sub-flooring, or ...
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Central and South America
Bancrecer Tlalpan Computer CenterMexico City, MexicoMigdal ArquitectosOffice/retailThe Bancrecer Computer Center, designed to serve 1,200 bank branches and 10,000 employees, is part of a trend in Mexico City of recycling buildings for new uses. The concrete shell of the existing building was re-used, after appropriate structural reinforcement, with new construction enlarging ...
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Netherlands - Alsop station toasts Rotterdam
British architect Will Alsop has revealed plans for a US$2.3 billion (£1.6 billion) development in central Rotterdam. The 20ha scheme includes 310,000sqm of offices, 195,000sqm of housing, 110,000sqm of retail and urban entertainment as well as plans for a 'wine glass' redevelopment of the city's central station.The plans will transform ...
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Africa/Middle East
Bopitikelo Community and Cultural CentreMolatedi Village, South AfricaPeter RichPublic/culturalGreenThe cultural centre was conceived as a mixed-use project to be built by the community as a venue for public meetings, celebrations, education and recreation. Its manner of construction reflects, reinterprets and therefore preserves the culture of the village's inhabitants.The centre was ...
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UK - 30s living makes a comeback
Agatha Christie lived there, as did Henry Moore. Bauhaus architects Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius were residents, along with artist Laszlo Maholy-Nagy. The Isokon, Britain's first truly modern block of flats, was the place to be seen in the 1930s. Now, after decades of neglect, the building is to be ...
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The $30,000 question...
Which building, of the 38 shortlisted, is going to earn its architect the US$30,000 Arup World Architecture Award? On Friday 22 June in Hong Kong all will be revealed.
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So Tschumi
In his shell-like, metal-clad concert hall for the Zenith centre, Bernard Tschumi reconciles his interpretation of city life with Rouen's need for cultural regeneration.