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All articles by Emily Cadman – Page 3
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New York's not-so-mean streets, a BIM council and a pleased Libeskind
There's been a lot of trumpeting in the American press about the experimental closure of Broadway in New York. But the story behind it is much more interesting and could lead to a complete transformation of transport in the city.Elsewhere in the world, the National Geographic presents the cities of ...
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Tributes to Arthur Erickson and architecture as the new "economic powerhouse"
It's been a sad six months for architecture, losing some of our best and most inventive thinkers in Sverre Fehn, Jan Kaplicky and Jorn Utzon. And now Canada's Arthur Erickson. Sad indeed. On a slightly lighter note, there is hope that the Bird's Nest stadium will finally find some ...
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Renzo's Chicago triumph
It must be nice to be described as 'the world's best architect' by none other than Richard Rogers. But News Junkie likes to think that Renzo Piano is more concerned with making well-designed buildings than accolades from other starchitects.Yes, News Junkie has developed a bit of a crush on Renzo, ...
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Brad Pitt, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano and Ordos 100
It's a big day for big names. Renzo Piano has won a new building commission; Brad Pitt unveiled a new list of architects unveiled for his New Orleans project; the recession has a silver lining for an early Frank Gehry building that was due for demolition and there's a roundup ...
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Do you know who Jonathan Ive is?
Do you? Well you should, especially because he's just beaten Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Thom Mayne to top Fast Company's 100 most Creative People in Business list.As senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, Ive is the man behind some of the most lust-worthy product designs of last ...
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Pascall & Watson get the Louvre and green schools for the US
So, the House of Representatives has passed a bill to build one of the most ambitious schools programmes in recent history. But it's not the first time that something like this has been passed by the House and ignored by the Senate. Fingers crossed it goes through this time.Elsewhere ...
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Zaha says "Psssht" to the end of the icon
News Junkie is back from the RIAS conference in Dundee, which was rather enjoyable, and was entertained by this amusing interview with Zaha Hadid in the Times on the train back to London.According to Tom Dychoff, “Nothing withers like a withering look from Hadid."News Junkie has yet to meet ...
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Is Russia telling porkies about their Olympic site?
Looks like Russia has been rumbled. Apparently their "big building site" for the 2014 Winter Olympics has hardly been touched and is hosting guerrilla gardeners.And poor Calatrava, whose design for the World Trade Centre transport hub took a bit of a battering earlier this week, has now had his design ...
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A right royal round-up
Has anything or anyone ever caused such a kerfuffle in the architecture world? Yes, it's Prince Charles time again.Unsurprisingly, a call for a boycott of his lecture hasn't really had a whole lot of effect other than to garner a whole heap of fresh press attention.Good Ol' Charlie or HRH ...
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A quiet news day...
What with everyone in the UK obsessing about Prince Charles and the big wave of news that came through yesterday and over the weekend, today has been a bit quiet.News Junkie was hoping for news about stalled projects in Moscow but the Russian media is completely dominated by the Eurovision ...
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Budgets, competitions and movement in the Middle East
It's been a busy weekend in the world of architecture, with new competitions, budgets announcements, office openings and yet another over the top design for Dubai.News Junkie also saw great pictures of two very different but uniquely wonderful designs - the first female-designed mosque in Turkey and the ultimate Star ...
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Outlining planning application submitted for 50,000sq m US Embassy
An outline planning application for a new US London Embassy in Battersea has been submitted.
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Knocking down Mies and Russia's Olympics
Apparently, Russia is ahead of schedule for delivering the 2014 Winter Olympics site. Fingers crossed it's more Bird Nest than Broadcast Centre.And one Chicaho tribune blogger argues that it's ok to known down a Mies building because it's not so pretty - blasphemy or a fair point?Olympic Projects Ahead of ...
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Blog of the week: Bad British Architecture
BD's Ellis Woodman selects his favourite from a long list of architectural bloggers...Penned under the well-earnt soubriquet, Ghost of Nairn, Bad British Architecture is a vitriolic and hysterically funny assault on the profession's most inept and venal offerings. One recent victim, the Swallow Fields housing scheme in Tipton - ...
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A rash of big name projects in Ohio and ACE sticks its oar in
Who knew Ohio was the palce to be for stellar modern architecture? If News Junkie could afford it, we'd be flying out there right now to have a look.And regulation keeps rearing its ugly head. What will the new MEPs think?Which State Has the Boldest Architecture?Ohio might not be the ...
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Why is pastiche so popular?
News Junkie is not against good quality traditional architecture by any means.London is the glorious place it is precisely because of the variety of its wonderful buildings, both traditional and modern, art deco and Georgian, brutalist and post post modern.But there are as many horrible pastiche traditional buildings as there ...
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1,000 Melbourne architects unemployed and more Pavilions for Shanghai
We're all feeling the recession in some way or other now, but 1000 architects in Melbourne have lost their jobs. Even against the background of rising unemployment in the UK, that seems like an awful lot. Is this even the full picture?On a cheerier note, check out the latest Pavilion ...
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Under the stars...
News Junkie is taking advantage of the long weekend here in the UK to go camping and has been hunting around the Internet for some nice architectural tents.Unfortunately we can't afford anything quite like the beautiful structures in this book or on the ecoshack blog. Ours will look more ...
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Piano downsized, Parrault wins Sofia and Libeskind extends the Jewish Museum
Some big news for some big name architects today - Libeskind wins the jammy job of adding to his own design with a Euro 10million extension.And Dominique Perrault gets to design the entire city centre for the beautiful town of Sofia. The news doesn't seem to be so good for ...
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Are you a mac monkey?
The world of 3D modelling is a thrilling one. No, really. Or at least it is for the professionals who really understand every software upgrade and relish a Zaha Hadid or Frank Gehry style challenge.For everyone else, it can be a bit of a pain.But in these times, when everyone ...