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The architecture of matzah and a watery New York
Nicolai Ourousoff casts his eye over a series of projects for New York's waterfront at the MoMA and one architect shares the secret of the perfect matzah ball (although News Junkie's grandma's were obviously better). The Museum of Modern Art in New York is the latest institution to turn it's ...
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The Pritzker Prize 2010 - all bets are off
Yes it's that time of year again, the daffodils are finally out and among those who care the anticipation is building for the announcement of the next Pritzker Prize winner on Sunday. Who will win is really anyone's guess, so it's no surprise that William Hill hadn't been taking ...
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Building waste gets glamorous
In the UK there are whole campaigns aimed at making architects and more aware of the waste they produce on a building project. But in America one architecture practice has moved on from simple recycling...Marmol Radziner do have an advantage in that they make a lot of the elements of ...
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SFMOMA - the usual suspects plus Adjaye
When Americans want a new architecturally adventurous museum, it seems that they like to stick close to a well worn path. The latest starchitect riddled shortlist to be leaked for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art extension is certainly no exception, despite the rumoured addition of David Adjaye and ...
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The architecture of a Hollywood blockbuster
The forthcoming Tron movie, hyped to be one of the biggest blockbuster releases of this year, had failed to move us until we discovered that its director actually trained to be an architect...News Junkie stumbled across this fascinating tidbit of information on science fiction site io9, along with the above ...
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Is Alvaro Siza worth more than Amanda Levete?
The Guggenheim is auctioning of a series of art works by architects and artists that offer a revealing insight into what the art world thinks architect's work is worth...To celebrate its 50th anniversary the Guggenheim Museum in New York commissioned a number of artists and architects to create artworks that ...
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Architecture's naked lady, Moore on Pitt and Nouvel's messy MoMA
News Junkie's top stories from the weekend; is a naked woman in a project rendering a bit too realistic? Rowan Moore's finally gets round to looking at Brad Pitt's architecture venture in New Orleans; and Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower in New York attracts some unwelcome legal attention. Has Monday ever ...
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The London Eye turns 10
Congratulations this week to the London Eye, which celebrated its tenth birthday on Tuesday...The husband and wife architects behind it, David Marks and Julia Barfield, sent News Junkie this celebratory card, charmingly drawn by their daughter Maya, aged about 4, long before the landmark was built.Since being opened by Prime ...
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Keeping records
It is always sad when a great architect dies and their office is disbanded. Years of work including architectural drawings and sketches end up on the rubbish tip.So let's give a big cheer for the State Preservation Office and Archives of Michigan, USA, who have joined forces to save World ...
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The architect banned from building in New York
What do you do when an architect repeatedly breaks zoning laws? In New York you bar them from making planning applications...Robert Scarano Jr appears to have been raising hackles for some time in the streets of the Big Apple. Residents complained that his buildings are out of proportion, dwarfing surrounding ...
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Looking into the past
BD is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week and News Junkie has been trawling the web looking for interesting images from around the world of the every-day architecture of bygone years...The Looking into the Past flickr group is our favourite thus far.Inspired by Michael Hughe's Souvenirs project, a series of ...
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Is Nicolai Ouroussoff the last architecture critic?
Journalist and Architectural Historian Alexandra Lange has launched a scathing attack on the New York Times critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, describing him as 'slippery', 'lazy' and 'not good enough'.(Nicolai Ouroussoff as envisioned by Curbed NY)Writing in The Design Observer, Lange argues that Ouroussoff may be one of the last of a ...
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Eric Parry the video star?
Eric Parry fans might be interested in the firm's latest set of videos – which are far removed from the normal architectural fly-thoughs.Instead of animated CGIs, Parry takes the reader on a walk through of their completed Westminster projects – including St Martin in the Fields and the commercial Savile ...
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US Embassy round up
The winning design for America's new embassy building in London has finally been unveiled, but it hasn't won everyone over.First there were reports of a fight "to the death" between jury members Richard Rogers and Lord Palumbo and their American counterparts, then Fox News weighed in with an attack on ...
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Rogers gets that familiar feeling
I don't think any of us are likely to forget the Chelsea Barracks debacle in a hurry, least of all Richard Rogers who probably still smarts just at the word 'barracks'.But down in Australia, Rogers is wading into a similar row over his Barangaroo project in Sydney...At some point you ...
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Heatherwick's 'giant pin cushion'
It's a million miles away and months from completion, but Heatherwick's Shanghai Pavilion is generating enough excitement to reach around the globe.And now some construction shots are finally revealing the reality of the B of the Bang designer's latest creation...In its usual ebullient style, The Daily Mail has honoured the ...
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Architects beat bankers in affairs of the heart
As the world breathes a collective sigh of relief after making it through another Valentine's day intact, the Daily Mail has given lonely single architects a cheery boost.Despite being underpaid and overworked, it seems that architects are now officially more attractive than bankers.2,500 women were asked to rate the professions ...
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Rock's artwork gets a stage
A retrospective of former RIBA president David Rock’s work has opened at a Spitalfields gallery, but it’s his artwork rather than his buildings that are the focus of the exhibition.David Rock: from 50s Architectural Drawings to Recent Paintings spans his whole career from early student drawings to his most recent ...
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Modernist architecture versus postmodern ornamentation
News Junkie regularly scans the web for new blogs to bring to your attention and hopefully this one will also bring a smile to your day...Sometimes a picture speaks louder than words, but in the case of Unhappy Hipsters, it's the captions that really make it entertaining.Although not really a ...
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Heritage goes high-tech
These images wouldn’t look out of place on the wall of an art gallery but they are actually the fruits of a high-tech heritage project to survey Scotland’s most important sites.The cutting-edge portraits show 15th-century Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh.[gallery link="file" columns="2"]A combined team from Historic Scotland and the digital design ...