Wednesday
10 March 2010
OMA have always liked to do things a bit differently, but it’s unlikely they saw this one coming. In News Junkie’s favourite story of the year thus far, Koolhaas’ practice has been accused of designing a building that emulates human genitalia. Can you guess which building it is?
News Junkie is back with the news round up which today features an Australian ex-Trade Union boss and Calatrava justifying the huge price tag for the World Trade Centre hub.
Plus Stephen Holl enjoying controversy in Norway, the nano homes that could help solve Mumbai’s chronic shortage of affordable housing and why architects need to go back to school.
All those projects that have gone on hold in Moscow may get a new lease of life after City Hall showed a bit of initiative and took matters into its own hands by setting up a group to buy land off the developers.
Elsewhere in the world Rem Koolhaas’ tower in New York looks like it might be a bit of a stump, RMJM eyes up Iraq and Ai Weiwei calls for a web boycott in China.
And if you’re curious about what the biggest practices in architecture earnt last year, the Arch Record might be able to help. Cold cash rarely floats News Junkies’ boat and things have changed an awful lot since last year, but the list is fairly informative if you like that kind of thing.
It’s been a sad six months for architecture, losing some of our best and most inventive thinkers in Sverre Fehn, Jan Kaplicky and Jorn Utzon. And now Canada’s Arthur Erickson. Sad indeed.
On a slightly lighter note, there is hope that the Bird’s Nest stadium will finally find some use having sat empty for months, and the Australian Institute of Architects is feeling ambitious.
Looks like Russia has been rumbled. Apparently their “big building site” for the 2014 Winter Olympics has hardly been touched and is hosting guerrilla gardeners.
And poor Calatrava, whose design for the World Trade Centre transport hub took a bit of a battering earlier this week, has now had his design for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra scrapped.
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