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NewsCox Rayner's pedestrian bridge opens in Brisbane
The Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, designed by Brisbane practice Cox Rayner Architects and engineer Arup, has opened to the public.
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Blogs
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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ReviewWhich London building would you save from aliens?
Open House is to launch its Open House Lives of Buildings weekend on Friday (June 26) with a “Battle of the Buildings” debate.
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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 ...
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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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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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Blogs
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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Blogs
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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Blogs
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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Blogs
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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Blogs
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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Blogs
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 ...
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Books glorious books
News junkie has a few big loves and high up on that list is books. They're one of those few multi-sensory joys.Walking into a proper bookshop (not those horrid high-street homogenised multi-storey things with a Starbucks inside) is always a treat; much like freshly baked bread and cakes, books ...