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O'Donnell + Tuomey's Photographers' Gallery scheme to start on site
Construction work is about to start on O’Donnell + Tuomey Architect’s project to build a new Photographers’ Gallery museum in London’s West End
Spacelab lands in Archway
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + PROJECT DATA] Spacelab has bagged planning permission for this nine-storey housing project, in Archway, North London
HCA restarts 105 housing schemes, but fails to rescue another 60
More than 5,000 new homes are now set to be built after Government budget cuts threatened the future of 165 construction schemes ealier this year
Grimshaw’s turnover up 68 per cent
Grimshaw has bucked the recession with turnover increasing 68 per cent on last year and the company now making an extra £800,000 in profit
Building Study
Shettleston Housing Association, Glasgow, by Elder and Cannon Architects
The Glasgow practice has designed a ‘thoughtful and open’ home for a housing association in one of Britain’s most deprived and depressed areas. Photography by Andrew Lee
Glasgow City Mission by Elder and Cannon Architects
Glasgow City Mission and Elder and Cannon Architects, the designer of its new headquarters, appear to have similar values. Both are a positive force in Glasgow; both seem content to keep a low profile and to quietly go about their business. Photography by Andrew Lee
The Lagoon Room at The British Pavilion
[VENICE BIENNALE 2010] Collaborators: Jane da Mosto, environmental scientist; Lorenzo Bonometto, life scientist; Venice Natural History Museum; Venice in Peril; Cambridge University
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Top Ten London Architecture Units
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AR June 1975 − Willis-Faber and Dumas Building by Foster Associates, Ipswich, UK
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The renovation of Ghent’s public squares strives to incorporate both the old and the new
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Halley VI Antarctic Research Station by Hugh Broughton Architects, Brunt Ice Self, Antarctica
Ian Martin
Ian Martin is shocked and appalled
Scheme-fixing: the shame of a profession throwing projects for cash
Competitions
The Critics
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010
Kazuyo Sejima transforms the Venice Biennale into an architectural fairground steeped in playfulness and sensuality, reports James Pallister
Why do architects love Stirling's buildings, while the public and users hate them?
Architects including Norman Foster and Richard Rogers respond to this question, posed by academics to Alan Berman when his practice, Berman Guedes Stretton, surveyed James Stirling’s Florey Building at Queen’s College, Oxford
Ulf Hackauf: The black and white of green
Ulf Hackauf, principal of MVRDV’s think-tank The Why Factory, explains why his book advocates less hype and more ambition in building the future’s sustainable cities
The problem with student shows
The end-of-year architecture show is euphoric, exuberant, and in need of an overhaul. Jeremy Till considers a ritual that preserves some of architecture’s least appealing aspects
Architecture's Evil Empire? A new book by Miles Glendinning
A new book frames a critical history of modernism through classic tragedy. Here its author, Miles Glendinning, describes how an architecture devoid of modernism’s idealistic beginnings has been perverted by a cult of individualism
Book review: Other Space Odysseys
Other Space Odysseys interprets the 1969 Moon landing as a trigger of self-contemplation for people living on planet Earth, through the investigative projects of Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan and Alessandro Poli
Books in brief - Henley Halebrown Rorrison
[ARCHITECTS’ MONOGRAPH] The re-emergence of Buschow Henley as Henley Halebrown Rorrison was heralded by this self-titled publication which explores forty selected projects, both past and present
Working Detail: PassivHaus methodology
[WORKING DETAIL 28.02.08] PassivHaus methodology- could this be successfully imported to the UK?
Working Detail: Sevenoaks School, by Tim Ronalds Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 24.04.10] Auditorium roof construction
Working Detail: West Buckland School, by Rundell Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 13.05.10] Terraced seating and entrance staircase
Astragal gossip column
Must see TV: Climbing Great Buildings
Over the next two weeks architectural historian Jonathan Foyle is taking an unusual look at some of the UK’s finest landmarks in the BBC2 series Climbing Great Buildings
Venice 2010: Feline antics
Venice locals know all about rolling with the punches delivered by the city’s sometimes inclement environment, but a few Venice Biennale exhibitors learnt tough lessons this week
Location Location Location
Commenting on the accommodation of those staying in Venice for the Biennale can be an exquisitely bitchy matter
LA scare for Meier
Talk about architects being judged by their persuasive talents. Before Richard Meier started building the Getty Centre museum in Los Angeles he had a meeting on the hilltop with some objectors…
