All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 111
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Archive TitlesNew life for Sydney hospital
A collaboration between Australian practices Peddle Thorp & Walker and SJB Architects is set to rejuvenate a 7585m2 site in central Sydney.
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Madrid's Prado museum hails Siza
Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza has won an open competition to restructure the public spaces around Madrid's world-famous Prado museum. His plan, praised by the jury for its 'sensitivity' and 'respect' for the historic area, trades traffic lanes for additional pedestrian spaces along Madrid's main circulation axis, the Paseo del Prado.
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Grants for young guns
Young architects are being invited to apply for two major scholarships.
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Archive TitlesZaha Hadid to design ‘snakeskin’ Guggenheim
Zaha Hadid Architects is to design the new temporary Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo. The 116m2 structure will be a 10-year intervention on the manmade Odaiba Island near the city.
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Archive TitlesIron deficiency
Steel may have the cladding market all wrapped up but it's the non-ferrous metals – titanium, copper, zinc et al – that are turning up on some of the world's most important commercial and cultural buildings.
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Archive TitlesWeekends in the country
For the past nine years, Alvaro Siza has spent weekends at the Santo Ovidio estate in rural Portugal, escaping the stresses of life in Oporto by restoring the 18th-century farm. This is the result. By David Cohn
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WTC collapse ushers in new design regime
The USA is to introduce sweeping changes to building codes in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Archive TitlesReady or not, Bruges concert hall opens
Robbrecht & Daem's concert hall in Bruges opened last month – despite being unfinished.The controversial building (pictured), whose costs have spiralled from n25m (US$22m) to n41m (US$36m) during construction, is the centrepiece of the city's year as European Capital of Culture. A week before its opening, the amorphous structure was ...
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Archive TitlesMeier mourns loss of Bronx centre
Richard Meier has spoken of his 'sadness' as partial demolition work began on his Bronx Developmental Center in New York – his first building to face the wrecker's ball.
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Europe backs stringent energy rules
The European parliament has slashed the size threshold for buildings that will have to comply with a new energy efficiency directive.
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Archive TitlesA little piece of Austria opens in New York
Austrian Raimund Abraham has completed this building for the Austrian Cultural Institute in New York.
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Archive TitlesAustralians rally to save modern icons
Australian architects mourning the loss of some of the country's iconic 20th-century buildings have launched a public awareness campaign to preserve those still standing.
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Archive TitlesThe art of today
How do you turn a gutted art deco building into Paris' temporary space for contemporary art? If you're Lacaton & Vassal, you work with the rubble to create a flexible gallery that makes most other found-space museums look positively tame.
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Archive TitlesARMI base for Helsinki
Finnish architect JKMM has won an international competition to design the new Finnish centre for architecture, building and design in Helsinki.
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Spanish judges axe royal museum architect
The Spanish competition system has been thrown into turmoil after a Madrid court stripped young practice Cano Pinto of the commission to build a museum for the Royal Collections of the Royal Palace in Madrid (February 2000, page 28).
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Archive TitlesArchigram wins gold for Britain
The 1960s architecture collective Archigram has won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal.
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Archive TitlesLibeskind's crystal to add sparkle in Ontario
Germany's Studio Daniel Libeskind has won the competition for the Royal Ontario Museum's C$150m (US$94m) extension project Renaissance ROM. Libeskind was selected after the initial list of 50 international firms was whittled down to a shortlist of three, including Italy's Architetto Andrea Bruno and Bing Thom Architects of Canada.William Thorsell, ...
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Archive Titles'Abstract ideas are really boring'
So says Canadian writer Margaret Visser, whose new book on a church in Rome may well spark a new 'concrete' approach to writing about architecture.
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Archive TitlesAbe's tonic
The northern city of Furukawa used to be a speck on Japan's architectural map. Thanks to Hitoshi Abe, it now has an imposing clinic that's modern without being sterile and inviting without resorting to pink frills.
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Archive Titles96m building to tower over Dublin
The city of James Joyce, Georgian terraces and old-fashioned pubs is to get its first skyscraper.