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20.09.07 City of Architecture - The French president Nicolas Sarkozy impressed a swag of 14 starchitects at the reopening of La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris. The museum has been subject to a US$114M refit taking ten years. The 86,000 square foot space includes recreations from twelve centuries past. The NY Times says a replica apartment from Corbs Cité Radieuse (L'Unité d'Habitation) in Marseilles is in the modern wing along with a marquette of Piano's cultural center in New Caledonia. [TIP: DN]

NYT 17.09.07
LA CITE
CITE RADIUSE

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19.09.07 Zaha Cast - Zaha Hadid has designed some seriously tricky tiny precast blocks, all carefully bolted together for an exhibition on the Thames.
BUILDING.CO.UK 19.09.07

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23.08.07 Serpentine - This year the Serpentine Pavilion was designed by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen (a director at Snøhetta in Norway) and it's getting good reviews.
WIRED BLOGS 07 22.08.07
SNOHETTA

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06.08.07 Siza - The New York Times interviews Álvaro Siza, 74yr old Portugese architect and '92 Pritzker winner, who has just completed a museum for the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Brazil. [tip:NK]
NYT 05.08.07

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25.06.07 Southern Cross Tick - The RIBA has just awarded Melbourne's Southern Cross train station the Lubetkin Prize. "Its real significance lies in the fact that it makes a good space beneath and an extraordinary undulating landscape above. ".
RIBA Lubetkin Award
THE AGE 24.06.07
GRIMSHAW

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14.05.07 Succession plans - Norman Foster, 71, has sold more than 40% of his business to a private equity group. The Telegraph wonders if the new owners will, "impose a business discipline on a profession that often regards finance as vulgar." Foster looks forward to more time at the drawing board, and less time running the business. The company website says that, "as part of this transaction he has... agreed to assign his personal “Foster” trademark to Foster + Partners."

TELEGRAPH 13.05.07
FOSTER+PARTNERS 11.05.07

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07.05.07 Hamburg - The new docklands development in Hamburg, HafenCity, is the biggest construction site in Europe according to their blurb. The Wall St Journal says it will increase the size of Hamburg's city by 40%. "What makes this project different from similar urban redevelopment projects elsewhere is its location and consistent focus on quality, which is reflected by its architectural excellence..."

They have had a few architectural competitions resulting in likely suspects Herzog and de Meuron and Richard Meier gaining commissions. Here is Herzog's new concert hall, a building the Wall Street Journal hopes will one day rival the Sydney Opera House's acoustic qualities. Shouldn't be hard. Visitors to the Elbe Philharmonic will, "access the crystalline fortress [via] a majestic ride on an extra-wide escalator from the mouth of the brick building through a golden tunnel into an open-air public plaza 120 feet above the Elbe river."

HAFENCITY
ELBPHILHARMONIE CONCERT HALL
WSJ 02.05.07 (subscriber)

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05.04.07 Living in an Ikea - Heading your way slowly, the BoKlok. Get a house to match your Ikea lounge suite, and get it quick. "The typical BoKlok arrangement is an L-shaped, two-storey block with three apartments on each floor. One such block can be put up in a day." [tip: SD]

GUARDIAN UK 02.04.07
BOKLOK

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18.12.06 Modernism on a pension - The Bauhaus turns 80. The building that is. In case we don't understand the significance of this, Reuters reminds us about modernism... "Fans of the late 1990s trend for urban loft living will feel at home among the untreated concrete surfaces, while anyone who has shopped at Swedish furniture superstore IKEA will find the plain and functional furniture and light-fittings familiar." Recent work has restored some of the original vivid colour schemes to the building - silvers, reds, and pinks.

REUTERS CANADA 18.12.06

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07.12.06 Russia - Some nice '70s commie architecture pics on this site:

ENGLISH RUSSIA

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