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Ennis House hits the market and Dubai is down but not out
Despite the best efforts of the Ennis House Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright's house has hit the market and is being sold as a private property for a cool $15 million. Seems that keeping the house in good working order was just too expensive for the Foundation to keep paying out.Also ...
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Richard Rogers Vs. Prince Charles
Forget the rumble in the jungle, the battle for Chelsea is far more juicy. News Junkie rounds up this week’s coverage of round two in the epic prize fight between Richard Rogers and Prince Charles.Prasad dismayed as Rogers loses Chelsea Barracks jobRIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at Prince ...
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Hadid's Chicago pavilion delayed and a win for Calatrava
News Junkie is feeling pretty news-ed out today, what with the Chelsea Barracks round-up and BD's press day. But it's also been a busy day for everyone else, especially Calatrava who is hopefully celebrating winning a commission to design a new university campus in California.And Zaha's Burnham Pavilion design is ...
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Libeskind goes prefab and Frank Lloyd Wright's equal opportunities approach
It seems that Frank Lloyd Wright, a man whose relationships with women in his private life are infamously scandalous, was actually an early leader in employing female architects. So no more excuses from the profession please; if it could be done then then there's no reason why women shouldn't be ...
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Rem 'Coolhaus' serves up some Mies Vanilla Rohe
News Junkie is a huge fan of all things that combine food and architecture, so imagine our excitement when we found this...Gelatobaby meets Coolhaus from Alissa Walker on Vimeo.Yes folks, it's the Coolhaus ice cream-sandwich truck with pre-fab flavours including Frank Behry and Mies Vanilla Rohe in an edible wrapping. ...
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Elitism in Australia and Renzo Piano on working through the recession
Renzo says his studio isn't really feeling the effects of the recession, which is nice for him if a little galling for everyone that is. But that doesn't mean he isn't empathetic. Apparently, after the Pompidou, Renzo got no work for years and he now sees leaner times as an ...
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Aravena wins Marcus Prize and Greater Paris gets scaled back
Alajandro Aravena must be among the most worthy winners of a big architectural cash prize in recent history. If you read BD's big piece on him you'll understand why. Also in today's news round up: The recession claims another victim in the US, with inter-disciplinary artist and architect Vito Acconci ...
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An architectural meander around the British Isles
News Junkie was pleased to see that the Guardian had devoted an entire supplement in its Great British Walks series to Engineering and Architecture today."Routes made special by architects such as Robert Adam and Norman Foster or engineers such as Thomas Telford and James Brindley" which celebrate both beauty and ...
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New York New York plus Graft's Russian Jewish Museum
It's a pretty New York heavy news round up today, with more rumblings from Atlantic Yards, the opening of the High Line and New York University's new building proposal.Thom Mayne has been announced as artist in residence for the LA film festival, and SanDiegoans (is that right?) are protesting against ...
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Architectural prostitution?
Apparently architects down under are being forced to "prostitute themselves to cookie-cutter-style building templates" due to the constraints inflicted by the Australian government's economic stimulus package.“Money is being thrown into building templates for school developments that are completely inappropriate and bare no connection to their surroundings,” Farnan Findlay director, Joel ...
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Birthday wishes
They say that as you get older you begin to dread birthdays, but News Junkie still loves them, as long as they're not her own. Today we're celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright's. It's hard to believe that a man who would have been 142 today could have designed buildings that ...
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The three R's of architecture - recession, registration and regeneration
The registration debate takes a complicated twist with a story about foreign architects working on projects in Thailand. It looks like there may be change in the law to make the relationship a bit more above board, after one Thai architect registered a complaint about Amanda Levete ArchitectsRegistration also rears ...
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Charles; that old familiar feeling
Ah yes, another architecture blog post about Prince Charles. Except that hopefully this will be funny AND mildly depressing, rather than just the latter.News Junkies' attention was caught today by a couple of fascinating articles about Prince Charles' crusade against the grey squirrel. We're no experts on squirrels, although they ...
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Boris takes a dip, Australia changes its planning system and Canada gives out some medals
News Junkie will happily remember this day as The Day That Boris Fell In The River. But local councils in New South Wales, Australia, will remember this day less fondly as the day they lost a large chunk of their planning powers. And some pleased architects in Canada will ...
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A new island development for Abu Dhabi and more rumours about Gehry's Atlantic Yards
Just when you thought that work in the Middle East was drying up, along comes Abu Dhabi with plans for a while new island district. The question is, will it be an island of starchitects a la Saadiyat Cultural Island, or something a little more accessible?In New York there's more ...
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Blog of the week: Bad At Sports
BD's editorial assistant, Katherine Hayes, selects this week's blog of the week."Want to give your eyes a rest? Well why not flex those lugholes and tune into Bad At Sports, a weekly podcast about contemporary art which covers the practices of people from all walks of life in the art ...
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Foster's green light in Moscow and sad news from LA
So, yesterday News Junkie was wondering what to give Norman Foster for his birthday and got some entertaining responses (some not suitable for publishing). But now the city of Moscow has trumped us all by coughing up the funds for Foster's stalled Zaryadye project.It's a sad day in LA as ...
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Birthday wishes to Norman Foster
News Junkie has heard that today is Norman Foster's birthday and he's looking rather good for 74.We're sure that all his staff are sending him best wishes. But he must be a profoundly difficult man to buy presents for.Foster is, after all, the man who has everything including his own ...
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Does Rem Koolhaas really harbour a "contempt for sustainability"?
The claws are out at Cornell University in the US, where a new campus building by OMA for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has caused a bit of a row. The building has finally been given the green light, but not without its opponents lashing out at Rem ...
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Top 50 practices in the US, Kaufman latest victim of recession and the Ordos prize
It's not often that a major new international prize is launched that actually seems to be taken pretty seriously by the architectural community. And it's even rarer to hear about one from Asia. In fact the Ordos Prize is China's first international architecture prize. News junkie can't wait to see ...