From Building Design: London mayor Boris Johnson will attempt to draw a line under the bitter departure of architectural adviser Richard Rogers by appointing Tate boss Nicholas Serota in his place. Serota's appointment is now official, as are those of several other new members of the Mayor's Design Advisory Panel. BD used a Freedom of Information request to obtain correspondence between Rogers and...
The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was...
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...
Spotlight: Julie Andrews as Maria Did the Von Trapp family really hike over the Alps to Switzerland? In the closing scenes of The Sound of Music , the singing Von Trapp family is seen heading up the mountains to freedom from the Nazis . In truth, though, they walked to the nearest railroad station, where they boarded the next train to Italy. From there, they made their way to London and, eventually,...
The Shanghai Pudong International Airport replaced the Hongqiao in 1999. Two more runways opened in the following years, and Terminal 2 opened in 2008. The third Terminal will open shortly. The first Terminal (photo above) resembles the famous Kansai International Airport in Japan, with stacked gates and a waving roof form. The second Terminal, by Richard Rogers, is round with a upper skylight lighting...
Good to see some imagination and effort going in to putting to good use those development sites which the recession means are otherwise going to stand empty: The City of London Corporation is actively encouraging alternative uses for plots where development has been hit by the credit crunch. The Richard Rogers designed "cheesegrater" was put on [...]
Earlier this year, I was contacted by a 58-year-old US Army / Navy computer programmer from North Carolina: he claimed to have solved the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, and wanted me to post details on my Cipher Mysteries blog, but without revealing his identity. Yesterday, however, Richard Rogers went public with his claims (which is why I [...]
By Drew C. Wilson Havelock News A self-described computer geek, Richard Rogers believes he has cracked a code that has eluded scholars and researchers for more than 500 years. Mystery has always surrounded the Voynich Manuscript, located at Yale University....
The most recent designs for Convoy's Wharf in Deptford Building.co.uk reports that Deptford's most important redevelopment project (on Lewisham's little scrap of riverside land) is "back on track." It writes: Plans for the £700m 3,500-home Convoys Wharf scheme in Deptford, south-east London, which floundered during the downturn, are back on track, as its new developer prepares to submit...
I was looking for some trend today, that stuck out to me, as prescient, and found what is quickly emerging is Augmented Reality – with a post on TreeHugger on ‘Build Paris on Paris’ & Other Good Ideas for Growth- while the post doesn’t actually mention Augmented Reality – the context upon the changes that [...]
It’s not quite The Full Monty, but the video of John Lyall on stage at his new Jerwood Dance House with various builders from Morgan Ashurst is very entertaining
As you pass out treats to children in the U.S. who dress as ghosts and goblins on Halloween night you might be interested to know that cocoa farmers are finding ways to increase their incomes and provide better lives for their children. Late last week Nestle, among the largest purchasers of cocoa beans in the world [...]
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