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Archive TitlesGehry makes his home debut with winery
Frank Gehry has unveiled the much-anticipated designs for the Le Clos Jordan winery in Lincoln – his first project in his native Canada.
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Archive TitlesCurtains up
Michael Wilford & Partners' largest-ever project is now complete. The Esplanade arts complex, in the Marina Bay area of Singapore, was the last scheme Wilford's former partner James Stirling worked on before his death. The complex includes a 1600-seat concert hall, a 2000-seat theatre, dance studios, terraces and courtyards, and ...
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Archive TitlesFour vie for New York craft museum
The American Craft Museum in New York has shortlisted four architects to design its new home in a building recently voted one of the ugliest in the world.
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Archive TitlesLe Corbusier's early travels
Save some material that remains in private hands, the two volumes Voyages d'Allemagne and Voyages de l'Orient complete the publication of virtually all Le Corbusier's pocket notebooks.
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Calatrava and Nouvel on track in Florence
Jean Nouvel and Santiago Calatrava have each won an international competition in Florence.
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Archive TitlesCan building skins think?
And what does 'intelligent architecture' really mean? Here, the co-author of Intelligent Skins, offers his definition – and explains how the 22 buildings in the book were chosen.
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Archive TitlesPolice investigate blaze at Michael Graves house
Indiana police are investigating a fire that destroyed one of the early works of Michael Graves, the Snyderman House in Fort Wayne.
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Archive TitlesBlack gold
Architect Woods Bagot is about to begin work on a new college of technology in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The US$100m project will offer 75,000m2 of new buildings for a 3000-student college that focuses on engineering, petroleum and gas technology.
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Archive TitlesThe next big things
The Biennale of architecture may not be as high-profile as the film or art festivals, but it is the world's biggest architecture exhibition – and everyone who's anyone in the design world was in Venice for its opening.
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Foster to design Benjamin tribute
Town hall in Portbou, Spain, to be converted in German-Jewish thinker's honour.
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Archive TitlesBig City plans arts oasis for Montréal
Montréal architect Atelier Big City has won a competition to design a new entry point for the Place des Arts (PdA) in Montréal.
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Architects slam 'tragic' Berlin reconstruction
Daniel Libeskind, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Thomas Herzog have blasted the German parliament's decision to reconstruct Berlin's neo-baroque Hohenzollern Schloss in a €670m (US$666m) project.
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Massive clean-up starts after floods devastate Europe
Repairs run into billions of euros as some of Europe's finest buildings, bridges and historic sites are ravaged.
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Archive TitlesYoung Barcelona studio Cero 9 powers up for bioclimatic office
Cristina Díaz and Efrén García Grinda of Barcelona studio Cero 9 have won a limited competition to build offices for Spanish power company Made-Endesa (pictured).The firm is a division of Spanish electric power producer Endesa and makes solar collectors and wind-powered generators. It proposes to make the facility a model ...
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Top 100 interiors survey
The names at the summit may be the same but a lot has changed since last year's survey of the world's biggest interiors firms. We take a look at the market.
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Archive Titles10 facts about the Top 100
1 The number of interior designers employed by the Top 100 firms has fallen 12% in the past year.2 The USA still dominates when it comes to mega-practices: 51 of the Top 100 are American.This is down slightly from last year's 57.3 First-placed Gensler has shed 533 staff since ...
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State of the union
Vassilis Sgoutas, whose three-year term ended in July, has been an outstanding president of the Union of International Architects (UIA). Founded in 1948, membership has now increased from 21 to 110 nations, representing 879,324 architects.Europe (known as Region I) is by far the largest region, with some 352,000 members. Next ...
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School of thought
White Design's Bristol architecture and planning school is more of a textbook than a building, an object lesson in functional and sustainable design
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Principles: Deeds
What's the difference between a deed and a simple contract? If you are going to be sued, it works out at six years...
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A sense of place
Edwin Smith's photographs are more about creating a mood than recording a building. This 1936 image of Kentish Town Station is pure Brief Encounter