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World of Warcraft - an architectural perspective?
News Junkie has encountered a fair few trained architects who have ended up using their 3d skills to serves the entertainment industry. After all, in a recession building a virtual building that will actually get used in a virtual city environment is preferable to building nothing at all and gaming ...
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When is it ok to demolish a Mies?
The decision to knock down a a Mies van der Rohe designed 'hut' on the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus in Chicago has predictably caused distress among Mies fans. But there are a few dissident voices out there applauding the decision...The powers that be in Chicago have sanctioned the demolition ...
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Pop ups - the trend continues
Pop-up restaurants, pop-up shops, pop-up city farms - the trend just won't go away.I'm unsure what to think about them - the much hyped Somerset House bar was just a bit cold and uncomfortable when I went, and definitely looked better from a distance.But, they do have the great advantage ...
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An architect is for life.
News Junkie has been told by many architects that they will never retire and there are certainly a fair few still practicing well into their twilight years......and to prove you can't keep a good architect down, the 101 year old Oscar Niemeyer has returned to work just weeks after surgery ...
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Behind the scenes at Heatherwick Studio
Thomas Heatherwick is an unpredictable man. One minute he's creating a multi-million pound design for the Shanghai Expo and the next he's recreating his double rolling bridge concept on a float for the City Bridge Trust's offering at the annual Lord Mayor's Show in London...News Junkie went behind the scenes ...
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Who has an RCA secret?
It seems that the voice of architectural dissent has broken into the RCA via the college's Secret postcard exhibition. Does this mean architecture students are rediscovering their politics or is it the work of a well known anti-royalist British architect...Someone has submitted an anti-royalist architectural statement as part of ...
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Aren't architects meant to design buildings?
Yes, we're talking to you Mr Frank I-collaborate-with-Lady-GaGa Gehry...Gehry designed costumes for a Lady GaGa performance (you know, the really annoying one who likes to repeat her vowels a lot and wear 'avant garde' outfits - no? don't worry, you're not missing out) celebrating the Los Angeles Museum of Arts ...
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Yale School of Architecture finds fashion favour
In a display of both friendship and altruism the king of American preppy fashion Ralph Lauren and his wife Ricky have established a professorship at Yale School of Architecture in memory of Charles Gwathmey.(Charles Gwathmey, picture via Interior Design)No-one knows if there is an afterlife, but if there is it ...
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Libeskind graduates - pics
News Junkie has to confess to a bit of a soft spot for Daniel Libeskind - one of the few high profile characters in architecture today who actually comes across as approachable and, dare we say it, nice...Of course we could be completely wrong. News Junkie overheard one guest reassuring ...
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Making solar panels pretty - LIN Architects
These days environmental buzzwords are all over the architectural dialogue like ants on a picnic blanket.But while many architects like to tick the sustainability box by whacking in a few solar panels and some ground source heating, there are few who have actually managed to turn these into striking architectural ...
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Cesar Pelli is sued plus the top five architectural films
News Junkie is hanging around the Internet hunting for interesting stories and biding time until the Architect of the Year Awards later tonight, so here's a double whammy post of completely unrelated stories - something serious and something fun.First let's have a quick look at what's happening in Cesar Pelli ...
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Halloween costumes follow up
No-one sent News Junkie any photos of themselves in fancy dress or their architectural pumpkins but we did find these amazing Brooklyn Archocostumes on the Architects Newspaper blog...From left to right - Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim and SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art. The bar for ...
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Award for strangest press release of the month goes to...
The PR agency that sent BD staffers an email titled "I'm the Simon Cowell of Urinals".Unsurprisingly, it's not as interesting as it sounds - if you make it to the end of this ridiculously long press release you have more time on your hands than us!“I’m the Simon Cowell ...
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Celebrities are not a 'special case' when it come to planning
Just when you thought that the UK had become so celebrity obsessed that the rich and famous could get away with pretty much anything, Guildford Borough Council goes and strikes a blow for the ordinary people...Yes, Cheryl Cole, long eyelashes and shiny hair might make you an X Factor judge ...
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The human camera
Most architects have an eye for a nice building, but try looking at a building for twenty minutes and then going away and trying to create a life-like drawing of it. Now try a whole street. Now try a whole city.Seems impossible, right? But British artist Stephen Wiltshire does just ...
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Curbed New York - gossip and interesting pictures
News Junkie reads an awful lot of blogs, web sites and newsletters on a daily basis. Partly for work - and partly just for fun (yes, a strange idea of fun).Curbed's New York arm is a consistent source of entertainment, offering a stream of construction gossip and an insight ...
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A truly scary Halloween outfit and a mystery prize
Halloween has never struck us as a particularly architectural event. Until now. Because you can now help your child strike terror into suburban homeowners with a miniature architects outfit... plus win a mystery prize with News Junkie's Halloween competition!Just when you thought all the joy had been sucked out ...
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Is it just us...?
...or does this project featured in the Telegraph remind you of a Blue Peter build your own Tracey Island project?For our non-UK based readers not familiar with the BBC program Blue Peter or the Thunderbirds TV series, here is a video of the infamous DIY Tracey Island project as revisited ...
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Stirling round up
It's been a few days now and the dust appears to have settled a bit so, in finest News Junkie tradition, it's time for a round up of the coverage of the Stirling prize and Richard Rogers win.News Junkie likes a bit of a juicy controversy as much as any ...
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Living installations take centre stage
Cheesed off that the public takes your buildings for granted? Seething that they walk straight in without admiring the fine materials and external detailing you sweated over?Then rejoice! This weekend Austrian artist Willi Dorner brings his living installation, Bodies in Urban Space, to London. His performers get up close and ...