Articles tagged with 'architecture'

A&D giveaway - Vintage Keating

23 July 2010 | Architecture & Design has a copy of Brian Carroll's book Vintage Keating: His wit and wisdom to give away.


Rant on...

13 May 2010 | Polemic? Outrageous? Justified? We bring you the most opinionated and debate-fuelling quotes coughed-up by the world architecture press.


Rant on

23 February 2010 | Las Vegas' latest casino resort an "absurd simulacrum of another city", the failure of modern architecture and Lord Norman Foster delivers disappointing design for Yale.


Open tenders

23 February 2010 | The Moe Rail Precinct Revitalisation Project and the Tennant Creek Swimming Pool are among today's tenders.


CODA architect one of WA's top business leaders

22 February 2010 | CODA's Emma Williamson has ranked amongst Western Australia's best business entrepreneurs at the '40under40 Awards'.


Architect suspended for "forging" development consent

22 February 2010 | A practitioner at a NSW firm has been suspended from practice for forging a development consent and illegally recovering fees from a client.


Victoria succeeds in designing safe streets

19 February 2010 | Where the residential sector has done a good job of designing against crime, commercial building has "failed", says an urban planner.


Rant on

19 February 2010 | Millennium arts projects result in "dark, vandalised" buildings, "poor planning" in Ireland and LA Live is "sorely lacking".


PechaKucha announces Melbourne event

18 February 2010 | This Saturday night Melbourne's thinkers and doers will gather to raise money for earthquake-ravaged Haiti as part of the 20x20 PechaKucha event.


Global round up

18 February 2010 | New Office for Urban Development and Environment in Germany, British Airways flights go carbon neutral and open-air theatre causes controversy in Malta.


Adelaide's 30-year plan risks populism: architect

18 February 2010 | Released yesterday, the final plan is "deliberately vague" and promotes conflicting principles, a leading Adelaide architect has said.


Rant on

17 February 2010 | World Trade Centre an "old lump of concrete", well-respected architects getting away with designing "abominable" buildings and design competitions "guinea-pig" suffering of Haitians.


Global round up

16 February 2010 | Efforts to save Hollywood hills from development, Vancouver Convention Centre is first to receive LEED Platinum ranking and Zaha Hadid's petroleum plant to be a model for sustainability.


BREAKING NEWS: Bond University announces new school of architecture

16 February 2010 | Ecology and social sustainability will be the focus of the new school, funded by a gift from Sunland founder Soheil Abedian.


Rant on

15 February 2010 | Modern architecture "drab", architects should be subject to public scrutiny and "miserably anti-urban" buildings in Cincinnati.


Open tenders

12 February 2010 | An office building at Victoria's Royal Botanic Gardens and the expansion of the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory at Northern Hospital are among today's tenders.


Rant on

11 February 2010 | Sydney let down by its architects, Cabe enforces "veil of secrecy" and Olympic City parking lot more suited to earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince.


Students make finals of Venice Biennale competition

11 February 2010 | The Australian exhibition at the Venice Biennale will feature work by current university students.


VIDEO: PechaKucha launches global event for Haiti

10 February 2010 | PechaKucha is creating a global, 24-hour "Mexican wave" of presentations to raise money for rebuilding efforts in Haiti.


Students make finals of Venice Biennale competition

10 February 2010 | The Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will feature work by current university students.


Bankruptcies rise by one third for architects, engineers

9 February 2010 | Statistics reveal the impact of the global financial crisis upon architectural sole practitioners and small studios.


FIRST LOOK: Woods Bagot's ACU centre

9 February 2010 | The Australian Catholic University's new Centre for Health and Wellbeing is an exercise in healthy architecture, according to Woods Bagot.


Rant on

9 February 2010 | "Uninspired" buildings that offer "desultory" results, "absurdist, nihilistic and egocentric" architecture and Victorian terraced housing "left to rot".


Global round up

8 February 2010 | RMJM tower leans over Abu Dhabi, Barbie considers a career in architecture and dead body discovered above architecture firm.


Queensland developer fined for environmental blunder

8 February 2010 | An environmental breach has left a Queensland developer with mud on its face and a $65,000 bill.


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