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Are you a Bad enough designer?
Topping the most entertaining stories floating around the web today is the Archinect and Bustler competition, Live Forever, to design a monument to the recently deceased Bad singer Michael Jackson.Still at Archinect, Bernard Tschumi hits back at criticisms of the Acropolis Museum. And the claws are out for Brad Pitt's ...
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Feeling seasick
What is it about super yachts and architects? First there was Norman Foster for YatchPlus, a big, matt grey hulk of a boat that looked like it might belong in Michael Bay's Transformers films. And now this...CNN compares the Oculus yatch to a killer whale, which is a bit unfair ...
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Glancey in the Hood
While Robin Hood Gardens has prompted a concrete modernist handbags-at-dawn style showdown over on Twitter this week, The Guardian has been preparing a more considered take on the debate.Last week saw the launch of the 20th Century Society's exhibition on RHG at the RIBA, a swanky affair with lots of ...
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A shiny shortlist and fast-tracking the registration process in Japan and New Zealand
If only all competitions made the shortlist public... the entries for the Calgary National Music Centre tell you nearly everything you need to know about the practices on the shortlist.In other news, the UAE struggles to produce innovative architects says a local tutor (not really news, but nice to ...
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Design loses out to security and the slow death of a much loved bookshop
It's another busy news round up today, with one of the US's best architecture bookshops under threat, some more depressing news for Australian architects and the biggest-ever Bauhaus exhibition.Also making headlines is Switzerland's attempt to trademark itself, with Zumthor name checked among those who have helped create the 'made in ...
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The march of BIM and 'ghost architecture'
While some people (News Junkie included) still value the old-fashioned architectural drawing, there's no denying BIM has some advantages and planners love it. Wisconsin is just the latest area of the world to begin demanding BIM models in the early stages of planning.Meanwhile in New York, there are signs of ...
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The future is wooden
It seems that the days of concrete high-rises and brick houses may be numbered - especially in disaster prone urban environments - as experiments show that wood could be the most economical (and eco friendly) earthquake resistant building material.Elsewhere on the world wide web, the New York Time's Nicolai Ouroussoff ...
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Odds on the Stirling
There are so many architectural awards these days, it's getting hard to keep track. But the daddy here in the UK is still the Stirling and the much-anticipated shortlist is due to be unveiled on BDonline on Thursday. So who are the hot tips for this year's prize?BD's own Ellis ...
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An Obamy urban policy?
It has finally happened; Obama has remembered that Urban regeneration was a key part of his pre-election policies. You can watch the video of his speech on the White House website, but cynics like News Junkie will want actions rather than words.Elsewhere, Murcutt blames fusty planning officials for lacklustre architecture ...
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Students and pavilions...
It's rare that architecture students get to see one of their projects realised and it's also rare for the architectural press to print photos of architectural projects being admired by their creators. So here's a short News Junkie picture special of the AA pavilion on the day it was unwrapped... ...
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The Pink Plinther
Modern art is a funny thing. One minute it's photo realistic paintings of meat and the next it's an inflatable lobster. Architecture tends to be a little bit more staid.But when art meets architecture, anything can happen. In this case that anything is pink and public.On Thursday architect and bicycle ...
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The Camberwell tower block fire, a major new announcement on eco towns and the obituary of HT Cadbury-Brown
Today’s News Junkie is a round-up of the weekend newspapers, featuring more on the devastating Camberwell tower block fire, a major new announcement on eco towns and the obituary of HT Cadbury-Brown. A nationwide alert has been issued by the Communities department to all local councils warning them to check ...
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Zaha Hadid reveals more about Zaha Hadid
Someone mentioned in passing the other day that they can't remember seeing an issue of bd that didn't mention Zaha Hadid. It's certainly true that Hadid gets an awful lot of media coverage for someone who has built so little in the UK.But Hugh Pearman nicely sums up the ...
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I.M. Pei is falling down?
There are some architects whose reputations seem Teflon coated - Renzo Piano and I.M. Pei are perfect examples. But, as this news round up reveals, no-one is that perfect.I.M. Pei's much celebrated National Gallery in Washington appears to have some $40 million of structural problems, while Piano's designs are being ...
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Fantastic Norway
Surrealism and architecture don't often go hand in hand. There is little that is really surreal about most buildings, whatever some of the more high-minded architecture critics might argue.But the rather appropriately named Fantastic Norway seem to be on a one practice mission to change all that and prove that ...
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Benetton has designs on Tehran
Benetton has made a name for itself by being controversial. Its clothes might be mind-numbingly dull, but its advertising campaigns were unforgettably shocking in the early 90s. And now the fashion brand has found a new way to attract attention - although it can't possibly have predicted quite how controversial ...
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America's climate change bill, architectural sudoku spin off and Gehry's new shack
It's been a busy few days in the architecture journalism world; Frank Gehry, airports in India, an Israeli architect's Sudoku spin off, America's Climate Change bill, Guerrilla architects in Sydney...It's a bumper edition of international news junkie, but one we hope will leave you very satisfied indeed.House Passes Bill ...
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Mousavi the architect
Architects on the web have latched on to the fact that Mir Hossein Mousavi, the politician at the centre of the Iranian uprising, is an architect. These are the facts that News Junkie has managed to gather about Mousavi the architect...Studied architecture at the University of Tehran (now known as ...
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Moscow takes matters into its own hands, Rem gets reduced and RMJM eyes up Iraq
All those projects that have gone on hold in Moscow may get a new lease of life after City Hall showed a bit of initiative and took matters into its own hands by setting up a group to buy land off the developers.Elsewhere in the world Rem Koolhaas' tower in ...
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Modernists take on traditionalists at chess
Even those fed up with the seemingly endless debate on modern vs traditional aka Prince Charles should take a look at this new chess set sculpture from Mobile Studio.Its architectural sculpture takes the form of a board game, where modernist and traditionalist can battle it out to their hearts content.Can ...