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The ipad and architects' websites
Is there anyone left in the Western world who doesn't know Apple released a new product today? But how much do architects really care...Well, enough to spend some time mocking up visualisations involving the new ipad apparently.This concept deisgn for an interactive ipad wall was created by Australian practice ClarkeHopkinsClarke ...
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Kevin McCloud accused of making 'poverty porn'
Kevin McCloud, presenter of Grand Designs and the Stirling Prize, has managed to annoy the Indian authorities with his latest TV programme... Indian authorities are more than a little upset that his show "Slumming It" had been pitched as a serious look at the architecture of Mumbai but ...
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Photography special
While architects are quick to claim their work, those on the peripheries of the profession are generally a bit quieter. So it was nice to see the architectural photographers hogging the limelight over the weekend.The I'm a Photographer not a Terrorist campaign group gathering and protest in London's Trafalgar Square ...
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Barbie - the new architectural role model
Much has been made over the years of the fact that there a far fewer famous female architects than male ones. Now it looks like a woman could become the most famous architect of them all, even though she's not real...In an inspired move Mattel, the manufacturers of the doll ...
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Archi-ninjas
Do you remember when the concept of an architecture blog was new and exciting? These days it seems like there's a new, and usually rubbish, archi-blog to look at every day. It's all getting a bit much, so archi-ninja.com has come up with this handy reference tool to help sort ...
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Haiti's deadly architecture
As the scale of the tragedy in Haiti unfolds, there can be few of us who have not stared at the images of collapsed buildings in horror knowing that better design could have helped save lives.According to news reports, timber structure buildings appear to have survived the impact of the ...
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"A defining achievement to the citizens of Miami, America, and the world..."
There can be few architects out there who, looking at the Burj Khalifa in awe and wonderment, think "but it's not quite tall enough."If you are among them, you'll love this new proposal for a 3,200ft skyscraper in Miami.It seems that in America, nothing was big, gold and dumb enough. ...
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Public Service announcement
Although the snow has melted in central London leaving us with a grey, slushy memory of a pretty winter scape, vast swathes of the UK and Europe are still struggling under the snow and ice. And some of our best buildings are suffering...So thank the lord for the Georgian Group. ...
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Kevin McCloud's happy communities
The Grand Designs presenter has returned from a stint in Mumbai's infamous Dharavi slum, which provided the background for Slumdog Millionaire, with some profound inspiration for the future of Britain's housing stock...McCloud was in India filming Slumming It, a new documentary about Mumbai's architecture, as part of Channel 4's Indian ...
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Practices with blogs
Just before Christmas one of New Junkie's favourite bloggers Swiss Miss asked her readers to name architectural practices with a blog integrated into their website...She got 103 replies, of which a few were either not architects at all or weren't worth the effort to click on the link. But the ...
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Living Architecture - something to look forward to in 2010
So another year is here and it's straight back to work for us at BD. This first week is traditionally quite a slow one - everyone seems to spend most of their time listening to their voice mails and going through their inbox. But it should be the perfect ...
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Feeling flush?
Architects feeling flush this Christmas should get their hands on a new £100 banknote featuring the legendary Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.The note, produced by the Clydesdale Bank, marks the 100th anniversary of Glasgow School of Art’s famous Mackintosh building and also the Year of Homecoming, a series of ...
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I'm still standing (temporarily)
In a joint venture Malcolm Crayton of FORM Design Architecture and architect Duncan Mitchell have designed a 450 m2 ‘pop up’ shop, for London’s Covent Garden.
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Changing rooms
Forget flock wallpaper, humble algae could become the hottest wallcovering of the future if studioJonandNina have anything to do with it.'The Algae Room' was on show during Tokyo Designers Week and in it visitors were asked to sit back and bask in the cool green glow of fermenting algae, chomp ...
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Trees the season to be jolly
As newsjunkie reaches for another mince pie, it seems architects are casting aside their selection boxes and getting stuck into the spirit of the season (and I'm not just talking about a tipple of festive sherry).A season's helpings of green brownie points go to Sarah Wigglesworth architects and their sustainable ...
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Gingerbread architecture
This was one of News Junkies favourite stories last year, and this year promises to be no different - yes it's time for the next batch of gingerbread architecture.BD's own wonky attempt at recreating Tate Modern last year didn't seem to inspire many of you to try your own, but ...
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Drink and be squiffy
News Junkie was sad to miss out on a trip to architectural foodmongers Bompas and Parr's architectural punch bowl last week at 33 Portland Place, just up the road from the RIBA hq.However the friendly duo have sent us a video, so we can share the experience with everyone else ...
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When architects fight back
Design review panels are meant to help ensure that local councils or the equivalent stand by decent architecture. But in fact they rarely have any real power. So bravo to the seven architects of the Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Review Panel, who have taken a collective stand against a city ...
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MacCormac's Maggie's Centre starts to take shape
News Junkie is pleased to see that Richard MacCormac's Maggie's Centre in the Cotswolds is beginning to take shape.Construction begun in September, with opening slated for summer 2010.Here are the latest construction shots – alongside the CGIs.[gallery link="file"]Unusually for the Maggie's Centre oeuvre, rather than a standalone building, MacCormac's design ...
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Will everyone please stop freaking out over Ayn Rand
A rather good cartoon by Peter Bagge from the Ayn Rand themed December edition of Reason magazine ... A bigger and more readble version is available on the Reason website here