All Building Design articles in Archive Titles – Page 98
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Archive TitlesVitoria picks Baldeweg's theatre in the park
Madrid architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg has won a limited competition for the Centre for Music and the Performing Arts in Vitoria, north-eastern Spain.He beat Herzog & de Meuron and Seville architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra to the p34.5m (US$34m) project. The 5000m2 facility includes an experimental hall seating 500 and a ...
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Barcelona firms sweep Iberian awards
Projects in Barcelona have won all of this year's 'Foment de les Artes Decoratives' awards for schemes in Spain and Portugal, which were presented in the Catalan capital last month.The award for exterior spaces was shared by Aranda, Pigem & Vilalta's minimalist, ecologically sensitive insertion of an athletic field into ...
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Calatrava to lead Atlanta symphony
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has won the competition to design a US$240m home for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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Archive TitlesThe best Asian building
Nursery and infant school, Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, India Arup Associates
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Archive TitlesThe best East Asian building
Mediatheque, Sendai, JapanToyo Ito & Associates Architects
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US arts champion J Carter Brown dies
J Carter Brown, the man The New York Times called America's 'unofficial minister of culture', has died at the age of 67.
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Archive TitlesNYC's folk art museum takes top prize at World Architecture Awards
The American Folk Art Museum by Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates has won the US$30,000 Arup World Architecture Award.
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Archive TitlesHoll lands Los Angeles history prize
Steven Holl has beaten a list of star architects in the competition to redesign the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History.The New Yorker, who was recently voted America's best architect by Time magazine, was preferred to Swiss practice Herzog & de Meuron, Boston-based Machado and Silvetti Associates, Foster ...
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American Folk Art Museum scoops top prize
The American Folk Art Museum in New York, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates scooped the top $30,000 prize for the best new building in the 2002 World Architecture Awards held in Berlin on 26 July. Click here for more about this year's winners, the regional and sector ...
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Archive TitlesThe best North American building
American Folk Art Museum, New York, USATod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates
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Archive Titles'I'd prefer to be celebrated after I die. That will mean our architecture has succeeded'
Turning up at Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates' New York office, you'd be forgiven for wondering whether you had the right address.
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Studio MAS cries Freedom Square for South Africa
Young Johannesburg practice Studio MAS Architects and Urban Designers has won the international competition to design a new commemorative square in Soweto.
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Archive TitlesAct of faith
Rafael Moneo's 3000-capacity Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels opens this month in Los Angeles. The 5900m2 cathedral has 2500m2 of alabaster windows. Moneo is a committed Catholic, and said of the design: 'A cathedral is a very daring proposal; to be involved with the construction of such ...
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Archive TitlesSwitzerland's Roger Diener wins French academy Gold Medal
52-year-old architect of Biel PasquArt Centre and Swiss Embassy in Berlin given lifetime achievement award.
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Archive TitlesI ♥ NY
Everyone has an opinion on what should be built at Ground Zero but, a year after the 11 September attacks, no one scheme has attracted widespread support. We find out why Beyer Blinder Belle's six masterplan options got such a frosty response, and how NYC's other regeneration projects are avoiding ...
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Archive TitlesChicago unveils 20-year city plan
Proposals of SOM-led team will prepare city centre for population and commercial explosion.
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Archive TitlesThe best European buildings 2
Synagogue, Dresden, GermanyWandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch