All Architects articles – Page 233
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NewsJan Gehl on Stoke design shortlist
Urban designer is one of five firms on the international shortlist for the competition to transform Stoke's public areas
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NewsCabe backs Simpson's redesign of Blackfriars tower
Design body approves reduction in height to 51 storeys and improvements in public space
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FeaturesNorthern soul
Erick van Egeraat’s glass-fronted Institute of Modern Art has rejuvenated Middlesbrough’s barren public quarter
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NewsFoster to sell firm ‘within three months’
Lord Foster has already put his penthouse at the London practice on the market
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FeaturesMuseum of Scotland: A revisit to the museum
Nine years after it was built, Martin Spring went back to Benson & Forsyth’s Museum of Scotland. He found a striking, intriguing building that is struggling to cope with the Edinburgh weather
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FeaturesDoing justice to the law
Michael Wilford’s law academy in the Hague is a judicious mix of the traditional and the avant-garde
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NewsImage: Marks Barfield BSF school goes on site
Michael Tippett school designed by Marks Barfield will feature an extensive green roof
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NewsFoster set to sell practice for £500m
The architect is talking to bankers about the potential sale of Foster and Partners according to reports
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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.
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FeaturesThe abdication
Here is Richard Rogers, flanked by his heirs apparent: Ivan Harbour, on the right, and Graham Stirk. But when will the great man go? What will his successors do when he does? And in the meantime, can they stop Marco Goldschmied’s legal actions taking away their offices? Martin Spring investigates ...
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Libeskind brings Eden to North
Rainforest attraction is expected to be located in Blackpool or Liverpool and will feature hotel and giant greenhouse
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How kool is that?
Architect Rem Koolhaas has unveiled these designs for an office building in the City of London.
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NewsFrench Frank
Frank Gehry has unveiled his design for a Paris museum of contemporary art. It consists of a series of enclosed galleries with glass-covered roof terraces.
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NewsStirling effort
The Phaeno Centre in Wolfsburg, Germany, designed by Zaha Hadid, is one of six buildings shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize for Architecture.
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FeaturesLife after la corrida
Barcelona’s disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers’ vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.
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NewsPitching it high
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership has been awarded planning approval for these production facilities for Silvercup Studios, the makers of The Sopranos.
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FeaturesJean de florette
Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.
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FeaturesVintage Rogers
Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;
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FeaturesGet Luder: Owen Luder’s fight to save Gateshead carpark
From the archive: Back in 2005 Building joined the architect as he tried to save his brutallist car park, made famous by the film Get Carter, from demolition
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FeaturesKunsthaus Graz: You sexy thing
Graz is celebrating its status as Europe’s capital of culture with a dazzling architectural display – and a British contribution is stealing the show. We visited Kunsthaus Graz, a shocking, sensuous, biomorphic art gallery designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier – and still found time to sample the city’s ...