News from Renewable Energy World - 03/01/2010
20% DISCOUNT on Earthscan books at ECOBUILD 2010 - March 2-4
Once again Earthscan will be at Ecobuild, the world's biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, with our unparalleled selection of books available for you to browse and purchase at a 20% discount.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 02/27/2010
Suburban regeneration: Croydon
Croydon gave the world Kate Moss, but can it ever be sexy? An exciting team of young planners are set to revive the south London suburb and blaze a trail for all British towns, writes Rowan Moore
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News from Independent - 02/10/2010
Why have costly arts projects that were supposed to transform the country's cultural landscape flopped?
Ten years on since the great Millennium Lottery rush to turn this country into an all-singing, all-dancing culture-box, the picture is distinctly less sparkly.
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News from Londonist - 02/10/2010
Book Grocer: 10 - 16 February
Looking at the week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Book Slam comes East to Shoreditch Town Hall, for the Red Bull Music Academy Edition. Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Tempest and Doc Brown are just a few of those appearing (7pm, £6 / £8). Snobbery begone! Yumchaa are starting a monthly Mills and Boon book club at their Camden Parkway shop (7pm). M&B editor Jenny Hutton will be on hand to discuss ...
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News from Spacing Wire - 01/19/2010
Spacing Radio returns for season three!
Spacing is happy to announce the launch of Season Three of our biweekly podcast Spacing Radio. You can listen to the episode on the Spacing Radio web site or subscribe to the podcast (free!) through iTunes. Episode 014 kicks things off with Marc Glassman (the owner of the now-defunct Pages Books) interviewing critically acclaimed filmmaker Atom Egoyan, [...]
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News from Times Online - 01/09/2010
Leeds Metropolitan university pours £20m into sponsorship
A cash-strapped university has paid out more than £20m to sponsor sports clubs and a ballet company, leading to accusations that a “culture of excess” is operating in parts of higher education.
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News from Architectural Record - 12/17/2009
Emerging Nations Grab Limelight at Awards Festival
A tectonic shift took place among winners at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF), as projects from developing countries accounted for a significantly larger percent of the honors than they had in the past.
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News from Spacing Wire - 12/10/2009
Subway stations and underground creativity
Although subway stations may not be seen as tourist attractions just yet, this may start to change. All over the world, transportation nodes are holding their own in the design and architecture industry, and soon Toronto will have six new stations by world-renowned architects Will Alsop and Norman Foster, which will hopefully compete. (Stay tuned [...]
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News from InsideHousing - 12/03/2009
Concrete plans
All jokes aside, a wet November evening complete with a gale warning is probably not the time to see Croydon at its best. I fight my way towards the concrete monolith which is the town’s council offices, dodging trams and cars whizzing along the six-lane road running alongside it.
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News from National Post - 11/29/2009
Architect Will Alsop on coloured blobs, tilted stilts and ditching the 'master plan'
Engraved on a bracelet around Will Alsop’s left wrist are what he calls “the three tenets of architecture”: DIVERSITY, INDIVIDUALITY and NAUGHTINESS. As a distinguished visiting practitioner in architecture at Ryerson this academic year, Alsop is working in a city that flaunts its embrace of the first tenet — but has much to learn about the second two
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News from National Post - 11/29/2009
Architect Will Alsop on ditching the 'master plan'
Famed for his OCAD 'Tabletop', he will soon be leaving his mark on more of Toronto
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News from Toronto Star - 11/28/2009
Hume: City's new architecture frees Toronto the Timid
Since 2000, we have built buildings, launched projects and drawn up plans that once would have been utterly unimaginable in this city.
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News from Toronto Star - 11/28/2009
Hume: Unapologetic architecture
Since 2000, we have built buildings, launched projects and drawn up plans that once would have been utterly unimaginable in this city. For all its timidity and feelings of inferiority, Toronto has started to think big, take architectural risks.
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News from Spacing Wire - 11/26/2009
Will Alsop inspires the future designers of Toronto
Will Alsop, the British architect who recently topped Fast Company magazine’s 10 most creative people in architecture, returns to Toronto to start his position as distinguished visiting practitioner at Ryerson University. He started it all off on Tuesday night, with a lecture to a full house of mostly students and faculty, about Preparing for Practice. [...]
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News from Express and Star - 11/25/2009
The Public has hurt me architect admits
The award-winning architect behind controversial Black Country arts centre The Public today revealed the building had damaged his reputation.
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News from Express and Star - 11/19/2009
Architect returning to The Public
The architect behind troubled Black Country arts centre The Public will be returning to the building he has described as his best work next Friday.
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News from London SE1 - 11/12/2009
Duke of York opens TfL control centre at Palestra in Blackfriars Road
Prince Andrew visited Palestra in Blackfriars Road on Monday morning to open Transport for London's new integrated control centre.
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News from CBC.ca - 11/06/2009
Tsunami artwork wins $25K prize for drawing
A large-scale, apocalyptic artwork inspired by the devastating 2004 Asian Tsunami has won Australia's $25,000 Dobell Prize for Drawing.
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News from CBC.ca - 11/05/2009
Honens contenders head into piano finals
Five distinguished young pianists from Europe are still standing as the two-day finals of Canada's Honens International Piano Competition get underway.
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News from CBC.ca - 11/05/2009
British architect Alsop to teach at Ryerson
Will Alsop, the bad-boy British architect who announced in August that he will end his practise, will take up teaching at Ryerson University in Toronto.
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