Recently added articles from The Architectural Review:
Heatherwick's aluminium experiments.(LONDON, UK)(British designer Thomas Heatherwick)(Haunch of Venison Gallery in London)
Nov 01, 2009; Mara, Felix ... I meet Thomas Heatherwick at the Haunch of Venison Gallery in London. Due to make a speech at the opening of his Extrusions exhibition, he seems relaxed, but alert. This exhibition--from the superstar British designer preposterously dubbed 'as talented as Leonardo da Vinci' by Terence ...
Artists give a human face to neglected east-end estate.(LONDON, UK)(artists Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Tristan Fennell)
Nov 01, 2009; Bennes, Crystal ... Boarded-up housing estates are symbols of doom and gloom in the modern urban landscape. However, there are those willing to change this perception as seen in the installation I am here (pictured) by artist collective Fugitive Images (FI). Their installation replaces 67 bright orange boards ...
An alternative view of Ando and Piano's curatorial architecture in Venice.(VENICE, ITALY)
Nov 01, 2009; Rykwert, Joseph ... The Punta della Dogana (AR October 2009) art gallery, with its bronze weathercock statue of Fortune turning over a gilt world globe atop a square tower, was where merchants brought their goods to be taxed before they were shipped to the warehouses of their palaces further up the Grand ...
Helsinki's new masterplans are impressive--but are they fresh?(HELSINKI, FINLAND)
Nov 01, 2009; Long, Kieran ... At the end of last year, Vuosaari Harbour, a huge new container port to the east of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, opened. This modern, 150-hectare harbour has liberated key sites in central Helsinki that will play host to two of the largest mixed-use masterplans in Europe, and provide 30 ...
Festival weaves a royal web.(SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Swathed in what appears to be filaments from a monstrous web, downtown Seoul looks like it's under attack from a giant spider. The reality, of course, is rather less apocalyptic. Strung between buildings and scaffolding towers, the gracefully swooping strips of fabric are a quick way to ...
Euphoria greets Rio's winning bid for the 2016 Olympics--now comes the hard part.(RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL)(Carvalho Hosken)
Nov 01, 2009; Nobre, Ana Luiza ... Last month, after a tightly fought battle with Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the Olympic Games in 2016. It's the first time that the Olympics will be held in South America, which for many people is reason enough to celebrate--euphoric scenes greeted the ...
Urban India is being developed for the rich at the expense of the masses, say delegates.(BERLIN, GERMANY)
Nov 01, 2009; Dawson, Layla ... After China, India is the obvious choice of economic power to place under scrutiny. But does urbanism look different when run by a democracy of 1.2 billion rather than by a 'command and control' power structure? This was the theme of the recent 'What Makes India Urban?' symposium at Aedes ...
Buildings.(List)
Nov 01, 2009; Mead, Andrew ... 078 PAGE 066 WOOD CABIN LOCATION POLSON, MONTANA, USA ARCHITECT ANDERSSON WISE ARCHITECTS 080 PAGE 076 VENTOLERA WINERY LOCATION SAN JUAN DE HUINCA, LEYDA VALLEY, CHILE ARCHITECT ...
Josep Llinas.(075)(Barcelona Institute of Ocular Microsurgery)
Nov 01, 2009; Gregory, Rob ... 075 INSTITUTE OF OCULAR MICROSURGERY LOCATION BARCELONA, SPAIN ARCHITECT JOSEP LLINAS WRITER ROB GREGORY PHOTOGRAPHY DUCCIO MALAGAMBA Josep Llinas is the epitome of ...
Lipsky + Rollet Architectes.(076)(Technical University of Troyes)
Nov 01, 2009; Slessor, Catherine ... 076 UTT CAMPUS LOCATION TROYES, FRANCE ARCHITECT LIPSKY + ROLLET ARCHITECTES WRITER CATHERINE SLESSOR PHOTOGRAPHY PAUL RAFTERY 'We don't want to be middle of the road,' says ...
Andersson Wise Architects.(078)
Nov 01, 2009; Kolb, Jaffer ... 078 WOOD CABIN LOCATION POLSON, MONTANA, USA ARCHITECT ANDERSSON WISE ARCHITECTS WRITER JAFFER KOLB PHOTOGRAPHY ART M. GRAY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1972, The ...
Francisco Izquierdo.(080)(Ventolera winery)
Nov 01, 2009; Gregory, Rob ... 080 VENTOLERA WINERY LOCATION SAN JUAN DE HUINCA, LEYDA VALLEY, CHILE ARCHITECT FRANCISCO IZQUIERDO WRITER ROB GREGORY PHOTOGRAPHY CRISTOBAL PALMA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
TNA.(081)(Square House )
Nov 01, 2009; Gregory, Rob ... 081 SQUARE HOUSE LOCATION KARUIZAWA, NAGANO, JAPAN ARCHITECT TNA WRITER ROB GREGORY PHOTOGRAPHY DAICI ANO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When visiting Makoto Takei and ...
Skill.(Sustainable Mountain Hut )(professor Andrea Deplazes)(architect Bearth S Deplazes )
Nov 01, 2009; Spier, Steven ... SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN HUT LOCATION MONTE ROSA, SWITZERLAND KEY WORDS BUILDING IN EXTREME CONDITIONS, PREFABRICATION, SUSTAINABILITY ARCHITECT STUDIO MONTE ROSA WRITER STEVEN SPIER ...
Marginalia: the interaction between, people, architecture and the surrounding land is the focus.(Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)(architects Pierre d'Avoine and Andrew Houlton )(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; Gassner, Robert ... EXHIBITION/Land Architecture People Until 1 November 2009, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark www.karch.dk About a dozen enormous, white models set the scene in the Danish Academy's exhibition hall ...
This should be read by all architects.(Book and Liquid Thresholds )(Brief article)(Book review)
Nov 01, 2009; Gregory, Rob ... Book/Liquid Thresholds By Neil Thomas and Aran Chadwick Atelier One, 2009, [pounds sterling] 34 With an enviable list of clients and collaborators that include Turner Prize-winning artists Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread, for two decades, Atelier One's Neil ...
Soane wanted to view himself as a teacher as well as a practitioner.(Royal Academy of Arts (London, England))(Sir John Soane's Museum (London, England))
Nov 01, 2009; Rykwert, Joseph ... EXHIBITION/Order: Myth, Meaning and Beauty in Architecture Until 30 January 2010, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK www.soane.org The Soane Museum takes up its founder's challenge to be a place of teaching by staging an exhibition of drawings and models ...
#8 Attica: Ricarda Roggen.
Nov 01, 2009; Luxemburg, Rut Blees ... Attica is the land that surrounds Athens. Through the buildings, houses and temples have passed all the varieties of hegemony, despot and democracy. Similarly, this East German attic has been a structure that has held a long and intense succession of ghosts--it is a repository of our ...
