Friday
19 March 2010
These images wouldn’t look out of place on the wall of an art gallery but they are actually the fruits of a high-tech heritage project to survey Scotland’s most important sites. Read the rest of this entry »
The decision to knock down a a Mies van der Rohe designed ‘hut’ on the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus in Chicago has predictably caused distress among Mies fans. But there are a few dissident voices out there applauding the decision…
While some people (News Junkie included) still value the old-fashioned architectural drawing, there’s no denying BIM has some advantages and planners love it. Wisconsin is just the latest area of the world to begin demanding BIM models in the early stages of planning.
Meanwhile in New York, there are signs of life for the Arts Centre originally proposed by Daniel Libeskind for the World Trade Centre site, but will it still have Gehry on board? How do we stop important privately-managed buildings from becoming ‘ghost architecture’? And Coney Island gets a nod of approval.
It has finally happened; Obama has remembered that Urban regeneration was a key part of his pre-election policies. You can watch the video of his speech on the White House website, but cynics like News Junkie will want actions rather than words.
Elsewhere, Murcutt blames fusty planning officials for lacklustre architecture in Australia, SOM’s Sears Tower gets renamed and Jean Nouvel transforms the Ile Seguin.
Ah yes, another architecture blog post about Prince Charles. Except that hopefully this will be funny AND mildly depressing, rather than just the latter.
News Junkies’ attention was caught today by a couple of fascinating articles about Prince Charles’ crusade against the grey squirrel.
We’re no experts on squirrels, although they do seem to provoke strong responses, emotional and otherwise, from all sorts of people.
But the whole thing is far more entertaining if you swap grey squirrels for modernist architects and red squirrels for traditionalist architects. In fact it all starts to feel a little familiar…
The Sun – Charles v squirrels
The Mail (our favourite thus far) – Exterminate! Charles declares war on entire population of grey squirrels to save our native reds
The Times – Prince of Wales calls for grey squirrels to be killed by landowners
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