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The Guardian: One New Change… never brown in town
One New Change is likely to be called many names in its lifetime, not all of them complimentary. An enormous shopping and office complex thumped down to the immediate east of St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, it has been designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.
Article: The Language of Park51
I’ve been reticent about jumping into the hoopla around the Park51 controversy, the community center on Park Place, a couple blocks from the World Trade Center site.
The Permission We Already Have
David Knight and Finn Williams have been investigating what they call “minor development” in the field of architecture and urban planning for several years now, and their discoveries are absolutely fascinating.
BRACKET [goes soft]: Call for Submissions
Bracket 2 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks.
A Fight on New York’s Skyline
The owners of the Empire State Building and their supporters say their tower’s international status and New York City’s skyline are in mortal danger of an assault from a “monstrosity.”
Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre
It is Britain’s first fully functioning recycled theatre – made of old nails, pallets and discarded doors. As the Jellyfish opens, Jonathan Glancey examines the rise of ‘junkitecture’
A City in Search of Good Fortune
Mention to anyone in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, that you are planning a trip to the port city of Buenaventura, on the Pacific Coast, and you will likely encounter stern warnings and looks of disbelief. Buenaventura holds a special, troubled place in the Colombian psyche.
For Some in Japan, Home Is a Tiny Plastic Bunk
For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels.
Architecture: Star architects emerge, but even they find limits
Architecture, arguably for the first time in its history, found itself at the very center of American cultural and political life in the decade that is wrapping up. That centrality helped make stars out of architecture’s top talents. With the aid of powerful software, adventuresome clients and, not least, a flood of new wealth and easy financing, it also produced a rush of inventive buildings, in styles stretching from fluid to wildly sculptural to neomodern.
Rem Koolhaas Keynote lecture on two strands of thinking in sustainability: advancement vs. apocalypse.
I did not assume that anyone in the academic world would ask a practicing architect in the 21st century, given the architecture that we collectively produce, to participate in a conference on ecological urbanism. So, I’m very grateful that you challenge me, but I am also deeply aware that my presentation is defined by this doubt and this condition.
Modern Lines for the Eternal City
ROME — What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi, the new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid on the outskirts of this city’s historic quarter? My guess is that he would have been ecstatic.
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