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Archive TitlesIsozaki’s Olympics
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has won an international competition to design a 12,500-seat ice hockey arena for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
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Archive TitlesViñoly gothic
Rafael Viñoly’s Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago has started on site. Due for completion next year, the building is at the heart of the college and sits opposite Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House. The glass and steel building will try to recall the gothic style of ...
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Steidle and Gigon/Guyer scoop Schumacher prize
The 2002 Fritz Schumacher Prize has been given to Munich’s Otto Steidle, architect of the Hamburg headquarters of publishing house Gruner + Jahr, and the Zurich partnership of Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, designers of the Varus battlefield archaeological museum and park in Lower Saxony.
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Stirling's Stuttgart music plan reaches finale
James Stirling and Michael Wilford's concept for a concentration of museums and arts colleges in Stuttgart, designed in the 1970s and 1980s, has been completed a decade after Stirling's death.
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Your favourite firms
With partnering increasing throughout the design and construction chain, we thought it appropriate to look in much greater depth at the contractors and consultants that architects favour most.
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EU sets tough new energy standards
The European Union has passed a directive on energy-efficient buildings that will set minimum thresholds in energy consumption for new buildings and renovations.
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Archive TitlesMori to take on Wright’s Darwin Martin House
New York architect Toshiko Mori is to design a new visitor centre for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, New York.
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Archive TitlesHouse core
Canadian practice Core Architects is to design a large-scale residential development in Dubai. The Toronto-based partners Deni Poletti, Babak Eslahjou and Charles Gane were selected to design 7,400,000m2 of housing on a stretch of coastline outside Dubai City.The US$4bn Dubai Marina project is a modern mix of high rise, mid-rise ...
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COMPETITIONS
Frankfurt premises for ECBThe European Central Bank is holding a two-stage competition to find an architect for a 100,000m2 premises in the east of Frankfurt am Main. The competition is open to all architects and the deadline for applications is 20 January. Eighty architects will be selected to participate in ...
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Archive TitlesCollage education
Those fractal tiles are the first thing you see, but there's much more to Lab Architecture's Federation Square than its skin. This is a living piece of city, a jaw-dropping arts complex wedged into a difficult site. We find out how it was done.
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Archive TitlesTrunk call
Jun Aoki's Tokyo store for Louis Vuitton resembles a pile of randomly stacked trunks. But the bulkiness of its structure is offset by intangible metal layers that seem inspired by the French designer's own watery fabrics.
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EC sets deadline for Brussels headquarters
The European Commission has set a deadline for the completion of the refurbishment to its sprawling Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels.
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Archive TitlesThe big hitter
Nikken Sekkei president Kunihiro Misu explains how his 1054-strong practice has stayed on top.
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Archive TitlesIngenhoven wins European Investment Bank
Düsseldorf-based architect Ingenhoven Overdiek und Partner has won an open, two-stage, international competition to build the headquarters of the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg.
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Archive TitlesSwiss play ball with Chinese modernisers
Kunming isn't the only Chinese city with big expansion plans. But it is the only one, says Stuart Black, that's working with Swiss architects to realise its ambition.
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Three Genoa graduates land Unesco award
The US$7000 Unesco prize for architecture for 2002 has been won by three graduate student architects of Genoa University in Italy: Erika Bisio, Giulia Carpeneto and Irene Carpeneto.
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Archive TitlesRiga architects take developer to court
Latvian Union of Architect petitions court and lobbies prime minister to stop construction of a store in historic city.
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WTO poised to open European Union to foreign architects
World Trade Organisation talks could force European Commission to remove barriers to non-EU architects.
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Archive TitlesThe samurai architect
Romi Khosla compares himself to a painter at the court of the samurai, a seeker of wisdom rather than a slave to a style. As the architect and UN adviser publishes a new book, Jane Samuels finds out what he has discovered.