News from St. Petersburg Times - 07/19/2011
Investor Reveals Potential Designs for New Holland
Architectural projects for the redevelopment of New Holland island were unveiled to the press Friday, a day before the island was opened to the public for the first time in its 300-year history.
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News from London SE1 - 07/17/2011
Waterloo Community Development Group General Meeting
Regular public meeting of the group that monitors proposed developments in Waterloo. Hear from the developers, ask questions and help to shape the community's response.
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News from Daily Telegraph - 07/16/2011
Best of the British seaside: art and culture
Cultural highlights on the British coast, from music festivals in Suffolk to art galleries in Kent.
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News from Yale University Office of Public Affairs - 07/08/2011
Tigerman Exhibition and Lecture Kick Off Fall Series of Free Architecture Events
The following is a schedule of free and public events at the Yale School of Architecture this fall. All events take place in Hastings Hall, the auditorium of Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York Street. Lectures and film screening begin at 6:30 p.m.
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News from St. Joseph News-Press - 07/08/2011
Seek Out Iowa's Hidden Gems
So you think you've got Iowa pegged? Well, some of the state's hidden gems, from art museums to a baseball diamond shaped from a field of corn, just may surprise you.
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News from Anchorage Daily News - 07/02/2011
Arts council's Fox to retire; grant winners announced
Charlotte Fox, executive director of the Alaska State Council on the Arts for the past 10 years, announced her retirement at the council's annual meeting in Juneau last month. She will leave the agency in January.
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News from The Star - 06/25/2011
Fusion of old and new in contemporary architecture
PRESENTING the winner and finalists in one of the world’s top architecture competitions.
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News from PitchEngine - 06/24/2011
World-Renowned Museum Folkwang Illuminated by SEFAR Architecture LightFrame
Founded in 1902, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany is a pioneering art institution. It was the first museum of contemporary art in Europe, and acquired Germanys first public collection of works by the forerunners of Modernism Czanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Matisse. Today, the museum houses some of Germanys most renowned and prominent art collections, many of which are displayed under...
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News from The Irish Times - 06/20/2011
British architect wins award for Berlin museum
BRITISH ARCHITECT Sir David Chipperfield has won Europe’s premier architecture award for his sensational renovation of the mid- 19th-century Neues Museum in Berlin, which had been severely damaged by British bombs during the second World War.
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News from Independent - 06/13/2011
Barbara Hepworth, The Hepworth, Wakefield
Sculptors arise! With the opening of The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire now has three important centres devoted to the display and study of contemporary sculpture. All are within easy reach of each other: the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at West Bretton and now a new museum in Wakefield, conceived by David Chipperfield on a site that gingerly pokes its toe ...
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News from Independent - 05/28/2011
Constable and Salisbury: The Soul of Landscape, Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury
On 23 November 1828, Maria Constable drew her last, bloody breath, worn away bytuberculosis and the birth of seven children. For her husband, John Constable, the sky grew dark.
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News from Arts Journal - 05/24/2011
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
"There hasn't been an exhibition in London for Barbara [Hepworth] since 1968, says her granddaughter, the art historian Sophie Bowness. "It's shocking."
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/23/2011
Olympic velodrome in race for building of the year prize
The London 2012 Olympic velodrome, nicknamed the giant Pringle, has been put in the long list by RIBA for the Stirling prize The velodrome for the 2012 Olympics, nicknamed the giant Pringle for its crisp-like curves, is in the running to be named building of the year after picking up a design award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The 6,000-seat building, completed in February, is ...
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/23/2011
Hepworth Wakefield sets up Yorkshire as world centre for sculpture
New purpose-built gallery, the largest since the Hayward in London, officially opens this week It has been called "the bunker" locally, and Peter's Box – after the district council leader Peter Box – but its real name is the Hepworth Wakefield: a stunning £35m concrete gallery to help make Yorkshire a world centre for sculpture. The gallery – the biggest purpose-built one to open since the ...
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/22/2011
BBC North – review
MediaCityUK, Salford Quays The BBC has long been bipolar when it comes to its buildings. The balance of power has long swung between its visionaries and bean-counters, at least since the rising architect Norman Foster designed a dazzling new building for BBC Radio in 1982, only for it to be scrapped in favour of some dim sheds in White City. Early in the last decade the Beeb tried to play Medici ...
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News from BBC News - 05/21/2011
£35m Hepworth gallery opens doors
The Hepworth Wakefield, named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth, becomes the largest purpose-built art gallery to open in the UK for 43 years.
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News from BBC News - 05/21/2011
Hepworth Wakefield gallery opens
The Hepworth Wakefield, named after sculptor Barbara Hepworth, becomes the largest purpose-built art gallery to open in the UK for 43 years.
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News from BBC News - 05/20/2011
In pictures
A glance at the new Hepworth gallery in Wakefield
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News from CBC.ca - 05/19/2011
Hadid, Foster designs earn architecture honours
A curvaceous opera house in China and the reconstruction of an iconic market hall in Haiti are among 13 international projects singled out for kudos by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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News from Daily Telegraph - 05/19/2011
Yorkshire: Carving a new trail through the birthplaces of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore
Stephen McClarence sees how Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore are remembered in Yorkshire.
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