All Archive Titles articles – Page 148
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The Curves of Time. The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer
The Curves of Time. The Memoirs of Oscar NiemeyerOscar NiemeyerPhaidon Press, London, UK£14.95, US$2230 b&w illustrations, 40 sketches, hardbackI am not attracted to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves.' These words, which open the memoirs of Pritzker-prize winning architect Oscar ...
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Learning Curve
Bruno and Henri Gaudin's new Ecole Normale Superieur, in a run-down part of Lyon, is symbolic, both of a French decentralisation away from Paris, and the power of large-scale urban interventions.
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Switzerland - OMA's conceptual thinking
Private art collector Friedrich Christian Flick has chosen Rem Koolhaas' Office of Metropolitan Architecture to create a new space for contemporary art in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Three's company
Niels Torp's complex of three spec office buildings at Smestaddammen near Oslo is typical of the architect's work – its apparent simplicity belies a complicated interweaving of context, function and user expectation.
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US - Chipperfield at the Rodeo
Minimal, sleek and monolithic – David Chipperfield Architects' new Dolce & Gabbana outlet in Rodeo Drive, Beverley Hills, California is the latest in a string of boutiques he's designed for the Italian fashion house.
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Responding To Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design
Responding To Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese DesignDavid BuckSpon Press, London, UK£39.99 US$60204pp. 83 colour illustrations, 66 b&w, softbackIn Responding to Chaos, David Buck reports on the state of Japanese design as the nation stumbles into the new century. In post-war, post-boom Japan, neither the old or ...
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Taiwan Wired for change
The city of Taipei has launched a major international competition in which selected celebrity architects will compete with on-line applications from architects around the world to redevelop the city centre.
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Business class
Christoph Mäckler's extension to the European Business School – housed in Schloss Reichartshausen, on the Rhine in Germany – uses the simplest of materials and finishes to convey a focused, monastic atmosphere.
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Busting the boom
As the Irish capital continues to boom, the cry from architects and construction experts is not what you might expect. Frank McDonald believes that what Dublin really wants is a chance to catch its breath.
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US - Big names for Carnegie
The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburg and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in Boston have drawn up high-profile international shortlists in their architecture competitions for the design of their new premises. Both plan to announce a winner later this spring.
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US - Isozaki will nearly double Bass
When the Bass Museum of Modern Art in Miami, Florida, reopens on 2 May, it will have been dramatically transformed.
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No way back for Bauhaus
The problem at the Bauhaus 'is not urbanisation but disurbanisation, abandoned property, depopulation, and a lignite legacy of industrial junk'.
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Australia - Radical rescue plan for Olympic Park
Sydney's Olympic park at Homebush Bay is becoming a 'white elephant', with the New South Wales government conceding that it is likely to be a drain on the taxpayer for at least a decade to come.
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Australia - Sydney's MCA faces radical facelift
In Sydney, the beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art is about to meet a bright new future.
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Australia - Where life really is a beach
How about this for a blank canvas: a 3.5km-long stretch of never-built-on beach and bushland, with planning permission for an entire township.
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Spain - Art Castle
The Museum of Fine Arts in Castellón, Spain, the latest work by Madrid architects Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla, was inaugurated on January 25.
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Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and other writings
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and other writingsKarel TeigeGetty Publications, Los Angeles, USUS$73384pp. 328 b&w illustrations. softback.Katrel Teige (1900-1951) – the enfant terrible of the Czech Modernist avant-garde of the 1920 and 1930s – was until recently under-represented in English language publications. Although spoken of with admiration by those who ...
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Singapore: Architecture of a Global City
Singapore: Architecture of a Global CityRobert PowellArchipelago Press, SingaporeUS$75256pp. 375 colour illustrations, 75 b&w. hardback'Blink and you'll miss it' would have been a fair assessment of architecture in Singapore just 10 years ago. How times have changed. In the early 1990s there were only a few decent architects whose work ...
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Malaysia - Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
The tecnopod is coming to a location near you.
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Where angels dare to tread
Jean Nouvel's Zlatý Andel, or 'Golden Angel', is a physical and symbolic sign of hope, and points towards a better future both for that particular former-industrial area of Prague, and for Eastern European architecture as a whole.