Seconds out, round two. There was a bit of a brouhaha back in 2002 when biographer Stephen Games first pointed out that beloved English art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was in fact a proud German who wanted to stay in Germany after Hitler came to power.
Of 37 American firms that applied for the competition, only 4 were invited to propose detailed designs: Pei Cobb Freed &
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm,
You know them when you see them, the great public buildings. It’s all to do with unshakable confidence. The 1842 portico and façade of the British Museum has it.
Proctor and Matthews Architects has submitted plans for this whopping £90 million, 34m-tall biodome at Chester Zoo. The huge EFTE-clad structure,
Five firms have made the shortlist for Building Design’s 2009 Young Architect of the Year award, sponsored by Autodesk. The shortlisted practices are:
David Kohn Architects
Duggan Morris Architects
Glowacka Rennie Architects
Osa/KHBT
Prewett Bizley Architects
The shortlisted practices will now have an opportunity to deliver a lecture at the Architecture Foundation on October 13.
I sat high in the North Stand for one of Arsenal’s last football matches – a patrician dismissal of Everton –
The University of Greenwich has announced its intention to appoint award-winning Heneghan Peng Architects to design a new campus library and a home for its School of Architecture &
Belfast-based Hamilton Architects has won Building Design magazine’s “Carbuncle Cup” for the new Ferry Terminal in Liverpool, which the adjudicators said was “like letting a bad second-year student build next to St Peter’s” Basilica in the Vatican.
O’Donnell + Tuomey has won an international design competition for a new £21.5 million Students’ Centre at the London School of Economics.
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