Traves Tangents (Free subscription) | yesterday
One Melbourne landmark is Flinders St station . There's a urban myth that the design was meant for India, and was sent to Australia by accident. In contrast, here's the Norman Foster designed Southern Cross .
Wallpaper.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hadid, Piano, Rogers, Foster and many of the fellow-60s and 70s generation of architects may today pride themselves to be among the world�s most celebrated, respected mega-practices; but rewind 4 decades back and all today�s starchitects were just taking their first baby steps into the architectural realm, marking an age of imaginative experimentation, innovation...
National Museums Liverpool Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize now open to entries. Any artists considering entering the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize would do well to get inside the head of a previous judge. Matthew Collings , who hosted What is Beauty? last Saturday evening, was on the panel for John Moores 22 in 2002 when the artist Peter Davies won. In the programme Collings lists his top 10 favourite...
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Small spaces can be home to big ideas – and even medium-sized families, as artists Madeleine Moore and Oliver Comerford proved when they renovated a tiny Dublin cottage and made it their own, writes
felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
In September, Tyler Cowen picked Berlin as his “preferred exile”: There would be plenty of art and music, lots of smart people to talk to, access to other good locales, and the near-certainty of public order, yet with bearable winters and good health care. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he's not so enthusiastic : I like spending time in Berlin. But I am never...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Dia Arts Foundation — purveyor of large-scale installation and performance art since the 1970s, starting with seminal arts space The Kitchen — announced this morning its impending plans to return to Manhattan with a major exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, on the footprint of a building that Dia has owned since 1992. Also noteworthy: for the first time in its 35-year history,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
During the week of November 7, the Toronto Design Exchange is hosting a large retrospective called Parallel Nippon , and the Index design fair kicks off in Dubai. Coming up within the next four weeks: the Singapore Design festival, Interior Lifestyle in Tokyo, and the opening of the world's tallest building.
Latest News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Norman Foster is drawing up plans for a cluster of tall buildings on the site of the New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms.
explo guide (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
The viaduct of records History and description Millau Viaduct represents the missing link of A75 motorway, to make the crossing of the Tarn valley near Millau deep here 270 metres. Project start dates back to 1987. In 1996, after a tender, the solution designed by Michel Virlogeux, Chief Engineer of bridges and pavements, and drawn by Sir Norman Foster, architect, is retained. Will be a work of art...
normblog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The Point of No Return blog was set up about five years ago to spotlight the forgotten plight of a million Jews driven out of Arab and Muslim countries. Although born in the UK, blogger Bataween, a journalist and mother...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Except in Dallas, that is, where the skyline made famous by the J.R. Ewing clan on television 30 years ago has undergone multiple transformations. None is more exciting than what opened here earlier this month, the new AT&T Performing Arts Center, a $354 million, 10-acre assemblage aligned on one central axis beside a bustling freeway at the edge of downtown. It constitutes the latest addition...
Stylepark (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
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London Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I'm still working away from London a lot of the time, in Switzerland, so I thought I'd show you a photo I took on a cycle ride of the Dolder Grand, a confection of a Hotel with a London connection as it was renovated by Norman Foster.
Latest News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Works by top architects are to go under the hammer to raise money for built environment charity Article 25, which designs and builds schools, health centres and homes for some of the poorest people on earth.
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