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When Bruce Rat­ner hired Frank Gehry in 2004 to de­sign a wrinkled-looking 76-story re­si­den­tial sky­scra­per in Man­hat­tan near the Brook­lyn Bridge, the mar­ket for eye-popping lu­xury con­do­mi­ni­ums was boo­m­ing, and the world-class architec…

So don’t ex­pect any ar­chi­tec­tu­ral ex­pe­ri­ments in Ber­lin, ex­cept for the Dutch Em­bassy by OMA and the Je­wish Mu­seum by Da­niel Li­bes­kind. What you will find is tidy, strai­ght­for­ward de­ve­lop­ment that re­spects the buil­ding lines. …

Leafing through the ye­ar­book, which bo­asts an ent­i­rely new lay­out, you im­me­dia­tely no­tice the large num­ber of land­scape plans. In­clu­ded are not only large-scale projects such as the Drentse Aa and the Zuid-Limburg Heu­vel­land hill land…

The first pu­blic gathe­ring of the In­ter­na­tio­nal New Town In­sti­tute took place on Tu­es­day eve­ning May 27 at the Kunst­li­nie art centre in Al­mere, or­ga­nised in con­junc­tion with Casla ar­chi­tec­ture centre. The aim of the In­ter­na­tio…

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The Royal In­sti­tute of Bri­tish Ar­chi­tects (RIBA) has an­noun­ced the win­ning projects of this year’s RIBA Re­gio­nal Awards. These will also be con­side­red for the RIBA Na­tio­nal Awards on June 27. Sur­face Ar­chi­tect­sA­mong the 92 buil­din…

After Neu­rath is an event that seems to grow as spon­ta­neously as the urban de­ve­lop­ment en­vi­sa­ged by Neu­rath. For two years now – one year lon­ger than plan­ned – Stroom has been pro­gramming ac­tivi­ties about this idea­list. I vi­si­ted th…

In this ar­ti­cle, I try to take se­riously Jencks’s re­mark that cul­ture should find an ico­no­gra­phic lan­guage to con­nect us to the uni­verse. Jencks’s lec­tu­res, an­s­wers and gar­dens seem to re­sem­ble the cosmos when it comes to be­gin­nin…

While 2007 was so­me­thing of a tran­si­tio­nal year that loo­ked to the past with big, lar­gely tra­di­tio­nal ex­hi­bi­ti­ons on Le Cor­bu­sier and Cuy­pers, the NAi is de­fi­ni­tely loo­king to the fu­ture in 2008. In ad­di­tion to the NAi’s in­st…

New de­signs for world­wide ar­chi­tec­tu­ral projects by Zaha Hadid reach us al­most weekly. Now Zaha Hadid Ar­chi­tects have de­si­gned a rug for non-profit or­ga­niza­t­ion Arzu. The one-of-a kind rug is part of Arzu Rug’s "Hope by Designers” coll…

These days it’s a com­mon­place to con­sider the de­sign of our built en­vi­ron­ment in such pa­tho­lo­gi­cal terms: The con­tent of our ci­ties is in­cre­a­sin­gly de­ter­mi­ned by ap­pa­r­ently trau­ma­tic, un­con­trollable mo­ti­va­tions (in­clu­d…

It be­came clear du­ring the sym­po­sium that each spea­ker not only in­ter­pre­ted mo­der­nism dif­fer­ently but also ap­proa­ched the re­vi­ta­li­sa­tion of he­ri­tage in a dif­fe­rent way. For one spea­ker mo­der­nism was a mo­ve­ment lin­ked the …

This is not just a bunch of hou­sing projects at­ta­ched to a new town but the lar­gest hou­sing pro­duc­tion en­dea­vor of the co­m­ing de­ca­des in the Nether­lands. 60.000 new homes are en­vi­sio­ned to be built by 2030, one-third (20.000) of whic…

Peter Nietzke and Eli­sa­beth Blum, both ar­chi­tects and aut­hors of the pu­bli­ca­tion Fa­ve­l­a­Me­tro­po­lis, de­li­vered an op­ti­mis­tic story about Bra­zi­lian slums like Co­paca­bana and Favela-Bairro. It wasn’t that they were po­si­tive abou…

Architect Elia Zeng­he­lis ob­ser­ved a fluc­tua­tion in the be­lief that holds the pro­fes­sion and its prac­ti­tio­ners to­ge­ther. ‘We have now re­ached a point at which there are no lon­ger any shared paradigms’, ac­cor­ding to Zeng…