Archive for July, 2006
Library for the Faculty of Philology
Herzog & de Meuron’s Power Surge
On July 25, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota unveiled the Basel-based firm Herzog & de Meuron’s dramatic design for a 247,500 square-foot expansion to the Tate Modern in London. The addition will add 60% more space to the enormously popular Thames-side museum, which has drawn over four million visitors per year since its opening in […]
Atlas of the world of tall buidings
Presentation of a project
Very impressive presentation.
Top architect appointed to design Margate’s Turner gallery
Internationally recognised architect, David Chipperfield, has been appointed to develop the design for the landmark Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate.
David Chipperfield Architects will work with the partners to create a new design for the gallery on the eastern side of the former car park site on Margate’s seafront.
The £15 million Turner Contemporary project is part […]
Add more curves to architecture
Christopher Hume’s piece with accompanying pictures was a useful reminder of the way our traditional, masculine, Euclidian-dominated, architecture has overwhelmed the primal, curve-focused lines that characterize the natural world. (There was a song, long ago, that made fun of our geometric habitations: “Little boxes; little boxes; little boxes made of ticky tack!”)
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Major British Award for Aluminium Architecture
Belfast health center using architectural aluminium glazing systems from Hydro Building Systems’ brand Technal has won a major award for architecture.
During London’s “Architecture Week,” the £15 million community health and social services center in Belfast, called The Arches, was presented the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award. The design features the innovative use of […]
Living architecture
BHUTAN may seem like a printer’s error on the world map. But the tiny Himalayan kingdom is a gargantuan feat of nature. For a geography ranging from challenging to hopeless and a culture shaped by steep ridges and narrow river valleys, modernity was once admissible only in measured dosages. However, the Land of the Thunder […]
Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ: new images revealed
Detailed plans submitted to Southwark Council for consideration outline the design for the new building, situated on the corner of Southwark Street and Great Guildford Street.
Famed for her buildings including the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, US and the BMW building in Leipzig, Germany, the Architecture Foundation will be the Pritzker Prize winner’s […]
Let’s talk architecture
If I were to make a generic statement, I would say that we do not discuss ‘architecture’ much in Malta. While planning issues and planning controversies are widely debated, we rarely venture beyond these topics and discuss ‘good design’ or ‘high-quality architecture’.
Furthermore, if and when we do discuss architecture, we tend to look at buildings […]