April 29th, 2010
A new development project in Ruthin has seen the Town Mayor invite a group of architecture students to come up with ideas for new projects across the town that could possibly help shape the future of the town.
Town mayor and an architect himself Gavin Harris, came up with the idea to persuade his own former [...]
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April 28th, 2010
The British Council have teamed up with the Architecture Foundation to once again host the London Festival of Architecture, to take place from June 14 to July 4th.
A biennial event, the London Festival of Architecture will allow professionals and non-professionals alike to take a look at exactly what goes on in the planning, design and [...]
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February 25th, 2010
A recent announcement stated that the go-ahead has been given for a new £4.7m project to build a youth centre in the London borough of Havering. The buildings caterpillar shape has been developed to be ‘future-proof’ with alterations and development very much in the forefront of thinking.
The building is planned to the Borough’s first carbon-neutral [...]
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February 21st, 2010
At the back end of 2009, the climax of Russia’s Building Festival resulted in the announcement of their annual Building Award. The award is presented to the best building that has been constructed within the previous seven years. Furthermore, the building must have been in use for a period of at least 12 months.
The process [...]
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February 18th, 2010
Following on from my post recently about TV shows raising awareness of architecture in young people, schoolchildren in Edinburgh are being encouraged to take note of the buildings around them. The Looking Up! project is a five week programme that take high school students around the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh examining the architecture [...]
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February 12th, 2010
From March until May of this year, a new exhibition will take place in the J Paul Getty Museum entitled Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts. This exhibition combines the art and literature from medieval and renaissance periods with the architecture of the time.
This fascinating exhibition will display how the artists and writers [...]
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February 2nd, 2010
828M or 2717 ft
Formerly known as Burj Dubai, Renamed after the man in the suit of aurmour who paid for it to be finished after Funding dried up. This my friends is the biggest thing ever made by man., at 828 m (2,717 ft) It took 5 years to build with Construction [...]
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February 2nd, 2010
This building is actually 1,076 ft tall if you include the ariel. Set on the stylish Rajprarop Road in the district of Bangkok known as Ratchathewi. (Is that where they got the name for the film Rattatui perhaps?) Built including 86 floors, the 85th floor actually rotates; this is the only hotel outside of Dubai [...]
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February 2nd, 2010
The dwindling awareness within the younger generation of many of our most famous and prodigious architects can be dispiriting but understandable. However, I was pleasantly surprised the other day to come across an aspiring young architect by the name of Ted Mosby.
This is one young man who is rapidly becoming extremely well known within the [...]
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September 30th, 2009
You may already know about the huge redevelopment of Canada Water in South East London. As a design centre piece for the scheme, Glen Howells has finalised the design for a trademark tower to complement the housing scheme being developed by Barratt homes.
Phase A of the development will see 688 new homes added to [...]
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