All Global articles – Page 71
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NewsMAD architects redesign Chinatown as a 3D star
Venice Biennale sees unveiling of 'Superstar' mobile Chinatown to be transported across the world
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NewsDark matters: Cern Hadron Super-Collider
The £4.5bn Cern Hadron Super-Collider was switched on this week in Switzerland, despite fears in some quarters that it could create a black hole and destroy the planet. British firms Scott Wilson, Jacobs Engineering, Taylor Woodrow and Amec played their parts in building its 27km-long tunnel and 30m-high magnetic chamber ...
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NewsArt in Arabia: Rafael Viñoly's Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha
Rafael Viñoly Architects has been appointed to design the Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
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NewsTongji-Cardiff join forces for sustainable architectural student scheme
Welsh and Shanghai universities challenge students to design sustainable housing in Shanghai through MMC
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NewsHOK Sport unveils 'Armadillo' stadium
Metallic-clad 50,000-seat football stadium in Mexico is inspired by adjacent mountain
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NewsNew York mayor slams building delays at Ground Zero
Planning agency responsible must go, says Michael Bloomberg on eve of today's 9/11 anniversary
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NewsO2 World opens in Berlin
Entertainment centre will host ice hockey, basketball and music concerts for audiences of 17,000
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NewsThe secret stature of the Burj Dubai
The world's tallest tower is going up in Dubai, but just how tall it will be is a well-kept secret - and for good reason
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FeaturesEscape to victory: how SMEs can work abroad
While many of the big consultants dodge the downturn by picking up business overseas, their smaller rivals may be feeling a little imprisoned in the UK. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Thom Gibbs unearths some escape routes that work, and some that don’t
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NewsParadise found
Landscape architects Gustafson Porter and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol are to design the Venice Biennale’s first large-scale landscape installation on the grounds of a former nunnery.
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FeaturesSun, sea and salt extraction
A British inventor, architect and services engineer have devised a system that could produce food, fresh water and energy solely through the use of solar power.
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NewsClose encounters: International UFO Museum and Research Center
This is the design for the new $30m (£16.8m) 18,000ft2 International UFO Museum and Research Center, in Roswell, New Mexico.
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NewsPaul Maddison's postcard from Dubai
The EC Harris partner is looking forward to the end of summer heat and the start of new 'biggest, tallest, longest' schemes
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NewsIci Paris: Jean Nouvel’s Horizons Tower
Jean Nouvel’s Horizons Tower in Paris has been given planning permission.
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Comment
Disputes in the desert
With construction wrangles in Dubai likely to increase, you’ll need to know how to go about resolving them …
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FeaturesA fine winery: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Spanish project
In between its airport terminals and office towers, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners manages to find time for the odd small but perfectly formed project. Martin Spring visits a wine factory in northern Spain
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NewsOnward Kristiansand: Kilden performing arts centre
Construction has begun on the £117m Kilden performing arts centre in the southern Norwegian city of Kristiansand.
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NewsDelhi plans 10 new metro stations for 2010
Pell Frischmann works with architect John McAslan + Partners to build 10 new Delhi metro stations
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s honeymoon period may be at an end, but France is weathering the credit crisis relatively well and the construction industry is still a bastion of the economy, reports Patrick Leniston of EC Harris
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NewsBeijing Olympics: The real stars of the show
More than 1.5 million visitors are expected to descend upon Beijing over the next month to see the athletes, and the grand architectural statements, of the 2008 Olympics