All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 108
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Archive TitlesNew Vienna museum to close
One of the centrepieces of Vienna's new museums quarter is to close for major alterations less than a year after it opened to great acclaim
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Chemical imbalance
Willem Jan Neutelings has converted and extended a former chemistry laboratory into an €8.5m (US$7.5m) arts centre in Leuven, Belgium. The centre houses a theatre, a hall for contemporary dance, an arts cinema, music spaces and exhibition areas for work by young artists.
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John Brown tower to light up Calgary
Canadian architect John Brown has completed an extraordinary tower in Calgary, Canada
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Global stars vie for Birmingham library
Seven world-class architects have been shortlisted to design a £100m (US$144m) library in Birmingham, the UK's second-largest city
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The new banal
It is either the worst of self-indulgent architect-speak or an existential crisis.
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Archive TitlesOlympic team rapped for Athens go-slow
The International Olympic Committee has blasted the Athens 2004 organisation over late-running construction work – and ordered it to speed up
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Jean Nouvel to juggle arts and sciences
Jean Nouvel has won two competitions in a month: an extension to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh and a new concert hall for Danish Radio in Copenhagen
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It's official: Star architects can revive flagging cities
Tourism experts and economists have confirmed the theory that a landmark museum can do wonders for a city's health
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Ando museum boosts Kobe recovery
Tadao Ando has added yet another museum to his portfolio: the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in Kobe
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UN Studio: From art to airports
UN Studio is at the Netherlands Architecture Institute from 26 May to 15 September. For details, visit www.nai.nl
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South African pioneer dies
Professor Ivor Prinsloo, one of South Africa's leading teachers and architects, has died at the age of 66 after a hiking accident
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Charity plans mobile AIDS clinic for Africa
New York-based voluntary organisation Architecture for Humanity has launched a competition to design a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic
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Eden fever spreads across the UK
Giant geodesic domes look set to mushroom across the UK following the massive success of Nicholas Grimshaw's Eden centre in Cornwall, south-west England
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Newcomer beats 1210 to museum
Young architect Makoto Yokomizo has seen off 1210 other architects to land a commission for a ¥1.2bn (US$9.1m) museum north of Tokyo
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11 in the frame for Luxembourg bank job
Eleven top practices have been shortlisted to design a new Luxembourg headquarters for the European Investment Bank, the European Union’s main lending institution.Finalists include Richard Rogers Partnership, Michael Hopkins and Partners, Christian de Portzamparc and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. The winner will be named in the autumn. The project will ...
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Archive TitlesTravel story
The Royal Geographical Society's lecture theatre had a reputation for top speakers but hard seats and poor sound. Now, thanks to a fast-track refurbishment, armchair explorers can listen in comfort.
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Archive TitlesShop window
Window maker Velux likes its buildings to have plenty of roof surface so it can show off its wares. For its Kettering office, White Design gave the company a top that almost touches the ground.
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Whats the point?
That's what tomorrow's architects are asking about the RIBA. They claim the institute is irrelevant, backward-looking and poor value. So, as student membership numbers drop, what is it doing to win them back?
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Archive TitlesSleeping partners
A world away from traditional Indian architecture, Eckart Muthesius' astonishing palace for the Maharajah of Indore, built in the 1930s, provided a showcase for Europe's leading avant-garde designers.