All Blogs articles – Page 26
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BlogsStruggling for a link…
How long before we stop lamenting the threats to our profession and start to see opportunities for innovation?
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BlogsA one sided debate?
There is a minor battle brewing in the architectural world that could, in time, have ramifications for the rest of us and indeed for anyone who cares about rational design.
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BlogsThe super yacht and the picnic table - Amanda Levete designs for James Murdoch
It was all cloak and dagger this week for News Junkie as an anonymous email arrived whispering of super yachts, architects and super-duper picnic tables.
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BlogsThe Trespafication of The Nation
Is it just me or is almost every new building clad in Trespa?
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BlogsA planning law unto themselves
Rogers’ hideous One Hyde Park is another example of how London allows celebrity architects to build pretty much anything
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BlogsIn search of criticism
Spitting venom from behind the safety of Twitter, critics decorously agreed to differ when pitted face-to-face.
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Blogs'Pre-fab' or 'Post-flap'
Forget pre-fab, it seems the latest trend may be better off titled ‘post-flap’.
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BlogsDon’t call me Starchi-Shirley
News Junkie could be forgiven for thinking it was April 1st when the news broke that Frank Gehry had graced Playboy’s pages.
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BlogsSpurs is right to show Olympic stadium the red card
It’s bad value for money, probably the least sustainable stadium ever built and it’s no good for football – no wonder Spurs want to pull it down.
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BlogsLean Green Foster Machine
Norman Foster’s new toy is a lean green, century ahead of its time, utopian machine.
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BlogsNoah and the Slinky
Looking like an unholy alliance of slinky spring and a set design from Waterworld; Russian architect Alexander Remizov seeks to make a Kevin Coster out of us all with a prototype design he calls ‘The Ark’.
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BlogsAll change please, this city terminates here
News Junkie is accustomed to strange and otherworldly ideas but there are few more surreal than this one…
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BlogsWho should take over design reviews?
Who should take over design reviews? In an open letter to the housing minister, Amanda Baillieu wonders whether Riba is the right organisation to take on Cabe’s advisory service
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BlogsPapier Mache Parametrics
Word reaches news junkie’s ears from the blogosphere that our own favourite starchitect, Zaha Hadid, has been sculpturally immortalised.
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BlogsChristmas is not a marketing opportunity, it's a time to be creative.
The BD annual Christmas card competition has fewer entries this year, but the truly creative ones still stand out from the creepily correct.
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BlogsThe world's largest Moose
An architect in Sweden is set to realise his dream to build a 45ft hollow glulam Moose on top of a mountain in Sweden. No, really.
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BlogsBeyond the occupation
They may have lost the vote in Parliament, but the legacy of the occupations is only just beginning.
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BlogsWikiLeaks co-founder is that rare creature: an architect with principles
While most architects are only ready to speak out when it won’t harm their professional life, John Young’s efforts in the cause of freedom of speech go the full distance
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BlogsSnow white and the three Little Napoleons
Sleepy, sneezy, dopey, grumpy, doc, happy, bashful and… Daniel Libeskind?