All Europe articles – Page 49
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NewsRIBA Trust hosts Christophe Egret's drawing expedition event at Venice
The RIBA Trust is to host a drawing expedition event curated by Christophe Egret of Studio Egret West at the British Pavilion in Venice as part of this year’s architecture biennale.
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NewsFirst images of Fretton work at Venice
Tony Fretton and collaborator Mark Pimlott have unveiled the first images of their installation at the Venice Biennale.
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NewsRockheim opens in Norway
A new museum of popular music in Norway designed by local practice Pir II and specialist museum designer Parallel World Labs, opens today, almost a year late.
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NewsPractices look abroad as double dip looms
Libya, Brazil and Egypt emerge as lucrative new markets as architects give up on Britain.
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NewsAdept and Sou Fujimoto to design Swedish library
Danish firm Adept, along with Japanese practice Sou Fujimoto, has won a competition to design a new library in Sweden.
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NewsVan Egeraat wins Moscow stadium competition
Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a 300,000sq m stadium complex in Moscow.
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NewsArchitect designs set for opera in former gulag
UK-based architect Charlotte Skene Catling has collaborated with director Michael Hunt to design the set for the staging of Beethoven’s opera, Fidelio, in the remains of the last functioning Gulag in Russia.
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NewsRussian leaders back opposition to RMJM’s Gazprom tower
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has backed opponents of RMJM’s flagship Okhta Centre in St Petersburg in a major blow to the Gazprom tower project.
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NewsChipperfield wins Russian opera house redevelopment
David Chipperfield has won a competition to redevelop the Perm Opera & Ballet Theatre in Perm in Russia.
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FeaturesPopulous wins Russian Olympic stadium contract
Populous, formerly known as HOK Sport, has won the commission to design the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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NewsDevelopment is putting Russia's architectural heritage at risk, says Moscow preservation society
The Moscow Architectural Preservation Society (MAPS) has warned that the city’s identity and architectural heritage is at risk from the furious pace of development in the Russian capital.
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OpinionMipim 2009: Those crazy Russians
A Death Star-like development for the city of Tula wins this year’s megalomania competition
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NewsRussian to the slopes
Wilkinson Eyre unveiled a 300,000sq m ski jump and winter sports complex for the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod at Mipim on Wednesday
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NewsFoster's Russian schemes in question as developer runs into trouble
Three of Foster & Partner’s major Russian projects are under threat after a series of economic blows hit Shalva Chigirinsky, the property magnate behind all three schemes.
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NewsRMJM tower wins Russian design competition
RMJM has won an international design competition for a new landmark tower and vertical park in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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FeaturesSHH stirs up design in Russian teahouse
Architect and designer SHH has completed a new design concept for Teaspoon, a Russian 70-strong teahouse chain. The first outlet has opened on Balkanskaya Street in St Petersburg.
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TechnicalRMJM’s Russian odyssey
Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg
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ReviewProject Russia’s Bart Goldhoornon on Russian architecture after Communism
Catherine Croft gets to grips with two decades of post-Soviet architecture at the AA
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TechnicalHow RMJM does the twist in Russia
A window assembly that accommodates flat glass in a twisting frame is the key to cladding RMJM’s Moscow City Palace tower
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OpinionFight over Gazprom tower symbolises modern Russian politics
As the row escalates over RMJM’s controversial tower, Elaine Knutt visits St Petersburg and discovers Gazprom is caught up in wider political battles