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Actors hired to make architecture firm look busy
Think things are bad in your office? This gem from the States might make you feel better. Apparently, one architect has taken to hiring actors to pretend to be staff whenever a client visits to make the office appear busier. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-digiulio/a-real-life-extra-100-to_b_162211.html - The Huffington Post
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D.C.’s new Capitol Visitor Center leaves critics unimpressed
LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne is distinctly unimpressed by Washington's new Capitol visitors' centre, saying: "when it comes to the aesthetic and financial perils of government-sponsored architecture, you could hardly invent a more perfect cautionary tale than the one embodied by this grandiose complex sunk into the east side ...
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Designing in the desert
The challenges of designing in the Abu Dhabi desert-The National (UAE)http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090131/HOUSE_HOME/267854283/1042/SPORT
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Eco-bridge for Chicago
Chicago's Burnham centennial has already lined up a number of big name architects - including Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel - to design pavilions, but a couple of local architects are hoping that there will be a more permanent legacy to the city.Two local architects are planning an eco ...
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US architects weigh in on Obama's stimulus plan
The AIA (America's equivalent of RIBA) have weighed in on the new US economic stimulus plan.If the plan passes, then government buildings, and energy efficient design is likely to be a major beneficiary. Good news right? But as always there is a catch: Which architecture firms will actually get the ...
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Abu Dhabi - not such a safe haven?
A news story just up on Property Wire casts doubt on the repeated suggestion that the rest of the Emirates will ride out the Dubai downturn.It reports that the second largest developer in Abu Dhabi is to delay all new projects - with obvious knock on effects for architects ...
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Moma's young architecture award goes to urban shelter
This year's Moma's Young Architects Program competition has been won by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith for their installation entitled Afterparty - an temporary urban shelter and cooling stationThe New York Times sees the result as a reaction against architectural excesses and a response to the economic climate with its ...
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Glancey meets Alvaro Siza
Jonathan Glancey meets Alvaro Siza, who will receive 2009 gold medal for architecture from the Queen.Siza interesting says he has refused to work in Dubai as he feels buildings are being 'rushed' there and 'built without love'http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/26/architecture-alvaro-siza
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Does the recession mean an end for iconic architecture?
Amidst all the articles on architecture and the recession, this one in the Chicago Tribune caught my eye.Taking its lead from Obama's plan for economic recovery, it suggests it's goodbye for iconic architecture - but hello for infrastructure spendinghttp://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2009/01/goodbye-icons-hello-infrastructure-obama-inaugurates-a-new-era-of-architecture-.htmlWhilst the premise isn't new, the article does a nice ...
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BlogsNews Junkie: 29 and 30 December
Dubai vows to keep building, Prussian palace reconstruction, ’Soviet boroughs’ built under Labour
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BlogsNews Junkie: 1st and 2nd November
Botanical garden at the heart of Olympic plans, Georgian buildings at risk
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BlogsNews Junkie 18 and 19 October
Public spending on large scale projects, wind farm failings and calls to nationalise the house building industry
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BlogsNews Junkie: 11 and 12 October
Foster as a national treasure, the nationals reflect on the Stirling Prize, and is Iraq the best place for work right now?
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BlogsNews Junkie: 04 and 05 October
Corbusier, Prince Charles and will the Olympic Village be nationalised?
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BlogsNews Junkie: 27 and 28 September
China to bail out London, what makes a perfect art gallery and private school expansion
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BlogsNews Junkie: 20 and 21 September
RIBA President Sunand Prasad and the British Council for School Environments claim the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme is failing because of a lack of proper consultation between architects and teachers.
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BlogsNews Junkie: 06 and 07 September
The Candy’s plans for Chelsea Barracks in London may be under threat as the Qataris who originally helped to finance the purchase of the 13 acre site now want to buy the brothers out and gain full control of the £1bn development, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
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