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April 2, 2008
  • World Architecture Festival Award – call for entries
    Detail Online – news
    The World Ar­chi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val is one of this year's big­gest ar­chi­tec­tu­ral events, which will take place from 22-24 Oc­to­ber in Bar­ce­lona. As part of the fes­ti­val a pres­ti­gious ar­chi­tec­tu­ral award opens for ent­ries on April 15,…
  • World Architecture Festival Award – call for entries
    Detail Online – news
    The World Ar­chi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val is one of this year's biggest ar­chi­tec­tural events, which will take place from 22-24 Oc­to­ber in Barcelona. As part of the fes­ti­val a pres­ti­gious ar­chi­tec­tural award opens for en­tries on April 15, the …
April 1, 2008
  • Abu Dhabi to realise one of architecture’s greatest schemes
    A spokesperson to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced today that his government has reached an agreement with the Le Corbusier foundation over the rights of the architect's famous Ville Radieuse schemes.
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    Con­struc­tion will begin early next year on the 2.5 mil­lion square meter plan in the west of Abu Dhabi, and is sched­uled for early 2015. The pro­jected bud­get, an im­pres­sive 4.5 bil­lion US Dol­lar, will be pro­vided for by pri­vate in­vesto…

July 14, 2005
  • Cyberfiction and architecture
    The work of British group Archigram, among others, shows that science fiction and architecture share a fascination with the future and influence each other. Will developments in science fiction spawn new tendencies in architecture? OASE 66 examines the relationship between on the one hand architecture and on the other science fiction and cyberfiction. Descriptions of such films as Metropolis, Blade Runner, The Matrix and Minority Report bring the reader up to date with the relevance of this subject.
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    The ma­chine age brought about the birth of sci­ence fic­tion. This genre in lit­er­a­ture and, later, film of­fers us a glimpse of a fu­ture dom­i­nated by the ma­chine. The in­for­ma­tion age saw the emer­gence of cy­ber­fic­tion, an off­shoot o…

March 2, 2000
  • 25 Informal kiloVolts
    Situated in the Lloyds harbour area of Rotterdam, this multi-company building for businesses and artists active in the media sector, designed by architect and Archined colleague Robert Winkel, is now almost complete. The staff at Archined have witnessed at close hand the ups and downs of the design and construction process of this '25kV building' as it is known. And we're just as proud as Robert, not to mention somewhat astonished, that the original, radical concept – a completely transparent facade containing glazed toilets and glazed kitchenettes – has survived unscathed through the jungle of officialdom and regulations.
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    The 25kV build­ing is a for­mer elec­tric­ity con­trol sta­tion, now ren­o­vated to house work­spaces for (new) media com­pa­nies and vi­sual artists work­ing with new media. The orig­i­nal build­ing was lit­tle more than a blank con­crete vol­ume…

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