All International articles – Page 141
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NewsWork starts on Pyle Architects’ Cambodia library
Construction work is underway on Pyle Architects’ £1.3 million library for the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
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NewsSix triumph in American Institute of Architects’ UK awards
Projects by David Chipperfield, Niall McLaughlin and AHMM and have all won Excellence in Design awards from the UK chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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NewsStudio ZA Arhitekturu completes work on the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
Croatian practice Studio ZA Arhitekturu has completed work on the 17,000 sq m Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. The practice won the comission for the publicly funded project through a competition in 1999 and construction work was finally completed at the end of 2009. Founded in 1954, the museum boasts ...
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NewsFoster backs campaign to save Moscow radio tower
Norman Foster has joined a campaign to save a Soviet era radio tower in Moscow.
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US to launch design excellence programme for diplomatic buildings
American architects have welcomed the announcement of a design excellence programme for US diplomatic buildings.
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NewsKazakh stunner
Foster & Partners’ Khan Shatyr entertainment centre in Astana, Kazakhstan, is nearing completion
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NewsKleihues & Schuwerk wins Oslo Museum competition
Three European practices have been selected as the winners of an international competition to design the new National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design in Norway.
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Ireland picks six sites to submit for World Heritage Status
Ireland has revealed a “tentative” list of six sites it hopes Unesco will consider for World Heritage Site status.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron hotel rejected
Herzog & de Meuron’s proposal for a cross-shaped waterfront hotel in Helsinki, Finland, has been rejected by the Helsinki City Council.
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NewsKohn creates giant table for Milan furniture fair
David Kohn Architects has designed a giant dining table as the signature structure for Tutti a Tavola!, the cultural event which will launch this year’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan.
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MultimediaHeatherwick's Shanghai pavilion
Watch video footage of Thomas Heatherwick’s pavilion for the Shanghai Expo
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NewsFoster & Partners bids to rejuvenate America’s tallest monument
Five teams, including one involving Foster & Partners, are competing to help regenerate the area around Eero Saarinen's 1965 Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri.
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NewsBaca wades into Dutch final three
Baca Architects has unveiled its proposal to develop a new peninsula in the Netherlands
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TechnicalJean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum
The museum’s 183m domed roof has taken months of workshops and modelling to achieve its floating structure and intricate perforated pattern
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NewsOMA wins Quebec museum competition
OMA has won a competition to create a 12,000sq m extension to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (MNBAQ).
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American profession complains of “bottleneck” in stimulus funding
The American Institute of Architects has reported a ‘modest rebound’ in architecture billings, saying that a bottleneck of stimulus funding is hampering recovery.
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OpinionDongtan, icon of our vanishing future
Two years after its ravishing images wowed the media, there is still no sign of an eco-city
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Architects rush to fill Shanghai charette
The RIBA’s charette at the Shanghai Expo is already oversubscribed fourfold, just a week after it was launched
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NewsBolles & Wilson reveals industrial 'tea house'
Bolles & Wilson has designed an industrial warehouse building inspired by a Japanese tea house and complete with a rooftop reflecting pool.
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NewsShanghai 2010 Expo pavilions near completion
As series of spectacular pavilions is taking shape in Shanghai for the 2010 expo, and Thomas Heatherwick’s design for the UK is no exception, but what message is it sending out?