A model of the Bernie Grant Arts Center in London, a space that is a big aluminum-clad shed

New York Times has published an article about David Adjaye’s latest exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem . Read it Below .

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“David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings,” an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, is the kind of measured, well-meaning endeavor that provokes reflection but yields few profound insights.

Public space is always a cause worth embracing in an era when the government continues to turn large swaths of the public realm over to private interests. And it has particular resonance in Harlem, where accelerating gentrification threatens to erode the fabric of neighborhoods even as it holds out the hope of economic revival.

Although Mr. Adjaye, a 40-year-old British architect who was born in Tanzania, made his name by creating spare, geometric houses for art-world clients, he obviously has a keen understanding of how architecture can serve as a community’s social glue. His best designs are enlivened by a sensitivity for the tactile qualities — the textures of materials, the play of light — that engage you physically and mentally and bring architecture to life. Read the full story

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0300VD had posted a video of Le Corbusier’s Casa Curutchet.

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” Stockholm architects Tham & Videgård Hansson has developed a nice light-weight building in wood and glass as a summer house in the Stockholm archipelago. The layout of the plan is generated by the specifics of the site, the house being placed on the flat surface between two mountain rocks and turning simultaneously towards the sun the south and frontally towards the sea in the west. With the small rooms located in the back the rest of the house stand out as an open platform crisscrossed by sliding glass. The house is organised in layers. The big rooms expand in open relationshp to the wooden deck outside of the house. The zig-zagged layout also offers several outside places sheltered from the strong wind.” David Report Read the full story

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Eikongraphia reports Jean Nouvel have won the competition for the restructuring of the port of Vigo, Spain .

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” His Highness Sheikh Saud of Ras al-Khaimah has a grandiose dream — a new capital city in the middle of his desert kingdom. Once an outpost for pirates and the pearl trade, the United Arab Emirates is reinventing itself, and Ras al-Khaimah, the northern emirate, wants a piece of the future. “The Sand Castle” follows a Norwegian architectural firm as it bids to create a city on the sand dunes.The film immerses viewers inside the royal headquarters and a fascinating encounter between Eastern and Western minds — the Emirates’ ambitions and the architects’ struggle to realize their demanding Arab client’s mirage.”

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 - via Better Public Building

The Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award is now in its seventh year and gives public recognition to new schemes that have an impact on the community they serve.

“The shortlist for the 2007 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award was announced on 20 June 2007. Eighteen outstanding projects show that the best public building is now at the cutting edge of sustainable design. Read the full story

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“Dornbirn, Austria – The Zumtobel Group has announced the winners of the first international Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. Designed to commend outstanding sustainable and humanitarian solutions in contemporary architecture and engineering, the award carries a purse of EUR 140,000, shared among two categories. In the category “Built Environment” the jury honoured Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles, USA, for the San Francisco Federal Building; while in the category “Research & Initiative” the award went to Schlaich Bergermann Solar, Stuttgart, Germany, for the design of the Solar Updraft Tower… read more“

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“Paul Torrens is someone after our hearts, for he has developed a realistic computer 3D model that can predict crowd behavior in various spatial configurations.

It can simulate, for instance, how people navigate through busy city streets, shoppers through urban shopping centers, and tourists through unfamiliar landscapes.” read more

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“The towers are really just giant stacks of money mostly bridging an upper class exodus from Mexico City with the moneyed highways of commerce running in all directions throughout San Diego, pressurizing the nexus of one of the busiest and already most economically polarized borders in the world.” Subtopia

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Part of its focus on OMA’s work in the Middle East, Dezeen revealed more photos of the latest entitled Dubai Renaissance…  read more here

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