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El Segundo loses Frank Gehry
Gehry has cancelled plans to move his office from Los Angeles to El Segundo
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BlogsHurray for extravagance
Kensington & Chelsea is leading the charge against the hateful traffic engineer and his sinister armoury of highway controls.
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Will Alsop as John Nash - video
Will Alsop dons the garb of John Nash to launch the London Festival of Architecture.
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Greenpoint Stadium
News Junkie casts its eye over the Cape Town stadium where England will play its next match.
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Architectural social networking for dummies
Architizer - the open source netwrok for architects
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr Foster? - sneak preview
It’s time to roll out the birthday bunting again as Norman Foster celebrates his 75th birthday on Tuesday.
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Couch cushion and cardboard fort architecture
With the bank holiday weekend rapidly approaching, cash strapped architects facing a long weekend stuck at home with the children may find some entertaining inspiration over on Build Blog.
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BlogsThe Pritzker prize ceremony - the place we'd most like to be a fly on the wall
BD's news desk, and indeed the UK architecture profession, have spent most of today worrying about cuts. But such worries appeared to be far from the minds of the attendees of the Pritker prize ceremony last week.
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No more icons
www.archicentral.com report of the refurbishment of Florida’s 1925 Renaissance Vinoy Hotel, headlined: “Historic Hotel Reopens With Iconic Carpet”. News Junkie would like to appeal for a moratorium on the use of the word “iconic”.
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Is the architecture profession corrupt?
Architect and former Harvard lecturer Victoria Beach, writing in Design Intelligence, says architecture is suffering from “institutional corruption”…
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Use the blueprints, Luke
What happens when architecture and science fiction mix? An unholy vision of Chewbacca in a tasteful turtle neck?...Well, not quite but delighting architectural trekkies and science fiction fans alike will be Hope and Glory, a multi-media exhibition developed by British artist Simon Birch. Visitors can immerse themselves in the middle ...
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Niemeyer's masterpiece celebrates its 50th
Brasilia turns 50 this week, prompting a closer look at the success, or otherwise, of the Utopian city while in Lebanon another of Niemeyer's visions of the future crumbles...There's nothing quite like a major birthday to make you sit back, take stock and reassess your life. It's hard to believe ...
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A wacky proposal in La La Land
Architect Christian Bay-Jorgensen has come up with one of Hollywood's most startling architectural proposals yet - he wants to transform the Hollywood sign into a series of 90ft tall hotel blocks...News of Bay-Jorgensen's idea filtered through to News Junkies screen via online news site Digital Journal. The idea certainly seems ...
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Should the donor get final say?
The University of South Carolina certainly seems to think so. It's sparked controversy by apparently allowing the biggest donor for its new business school building to choose its architect - with Rafael Viñoly winning the commission."In a move that's been called unprecedented, USC canceled all bids to hire an architect ...
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Gehry unimpressed by the Green agenda
Never one to hold back, Frank Gehry has told the world what he thinks of "green" architecture and it's fair to say the he is unimpressed...Talking at the annual Cindy Pritzker Lecture on Urban Life and Issues in Chicago, Gehry put in a "vintage performance" according to the Chicago Tribune's ...
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A new pin up for architects?
Pamela Anderson has become the latest celebrity to profess to a love of architecture…We're fairly sure she'd balk at the seven+ years it takes to train and the pittance that passes for a salary in the architecture profession, but Ms. Anderson has declared that she "should have been a designer". ...
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Modern architecture 1 Civil War purists 0
The battle to save Richard Neutra's 1960s Cyclorama building in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania USA, rages on but the architectural preservationists have won a minor victory in this very modern war.Back in 2008, BD reportedthat Neutra's building had received a stay of execution after thanks to a law suit filed by campaigners ...
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Sanaa's 'scary' Sejima
Among those gladdened by the Pritzker awarded to Japanese firm Sanaa is design writer Caroline Roux, who has just profiled Kazuyo Sejima for the inaugural issue of The Gentlewoman magazine...Roux followed the chain smoking Sejima to a number of events for her five page feature and is obviously a fan. ...