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The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Join us in London for the announcement of the winners of the AR Emerging awards 2024 on Thursday 14 November! This year’s shortlist includes architects who are investigating earth and bio‑based materials,…. Architecture is a site of exchange ...
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The young boxer turned self-trained architect mastered a signature style of concrete and shadow in Japan before exploding onto the global scene. Ando-reputations-illustration-architectural-review-lili-zarzycki. In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows ...
Shanghai Tower by Gensler - The Architectural Review
Nov 14, 2015 · The latest addition to the skyline is the 632-metre high Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler. It is the second tallest tower in the world when we visited but closely rivalled by another Chinese tower, Tianjin 117 in north China designed by P+T Group that comes in at 596.5metres. The project started in November 2008 and is just about to complete ...
Philip Johnson’s AT&T: The Post Post-Deco skyscraper
The trouble with nine days’ wonders in architecture is that buildings take more than nine days to erect. Before AT&T’s distinctive silhouette was any more than a steel outline against the sky, the media abandoned it and ran across the continent to drool over Michael Graves’ Post-Deco cube in Portland, Oregon (AR November 1982).
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. In 2003, at the age of 96, Oscar Niemeyer designed the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. At the time, he was a living legend: the last active modern architect.
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-
Apr 9, 2014 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
Typology: The semi-detached house - The Architectural Review
Jul 6, 2015 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Symbol of middle-class aspiration, conservatism and compromised individualism, the semi-detached house is England’s modern domestic type par excellence. ‘My pink half of the drainpipe keeps me safe from you’: so sang the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ...
Cardboard Cathedral by Shigeru Ban in Christchurch, New ...
Mar 24, 2014 · The trans-Pacific connections that emerged from the disasters have been reinforced by the completion of Shigeru Ban’s Cardboard Cathedral. The neo-Gothic Anglican cathedral in Christchurch’s central square was the highest-profile architectural casualty of the February earthquake, and cathedral staff soon began pondering the idea of a building to serve as a temporary cathedral and events venue.
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
Apr 24, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Assessing the legacy of Big Ben’s creator on the bicentennial of the architect’s birth. This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) and the event is being celebrated in numerous seminars and ...
Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) - The Architectural Review
Feb 28, 2018 · Zaha Hadid was an explosion of fearless, impolite, aggressive talent onto a profession terrified of itself. It is hard to recapture the state of British architecture in 1982. Modernism of any sort was at the nadir of its reputation, blamed for all manner of social ills by both Left and Right. The cul-de-sac became a spatial ideal for both ...