News from Guardian Unlimited - 07/19/2011
Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city
Iain Sinclair has spent decades documenting the capital and its edgelands. Now he has launched a furious attack on the Olympic development project. Iain Sinclair is notorious in Austin, Texas. Seven years ago he sold his literary archive to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and since then he's been shifting his papers from a scruffy lock-up in east London to the HRHRC's deodorised ...
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News from Independent - 07/07/2011
Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project, By Iain Sinclair
Near the end of this book, Iain Sinclair decides to tell us what it is all about. Walking along the Olympic fence in Stratford, East London, he comes across "globetrotting Sicilian photographer Mimi Mollica, a native of Hackney Wick", who asks him what the title of the book means. Sinclair replies: "CGI smears on the blue fence. Real juice from a virtual host. Embalming fluid. A soup of ...
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News from Express and Star - 07/04/2011
The Public is named in must-see list
Much-maligned Black Country arts centre The Public today found an unlikely ally – after being named in a book listing the world’s must-see buildings.
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News from Toronto Star - 06/26/2011
Book Bakery set to unveil first titles
Upstart publishing venture faces down grim times by adopting music’s DIY approach.
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News from The Scotsman - 06/23/2011
Top designer quick to dismiss rumours of split with architects
SCOTTISH architects RMJM have dismissed rumours that high-profile designer Will Alsop is set to depart from the firm just two years after joining.
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News from The Scotsman - 06/22/2011
RMJM operations director latest senior figure to quit
Embattled architecture firm RMJM has seen the departure of another senior member of staff - operations director Miriam White.
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News from The Globe and Mail - 06/17/2011
Putting some colour into GTA’s grey face
Goal of duo's think tank is is to transform the pallid city into a more joyful, interesting place
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News from Scoop.co.nz - 05/18/2011
NZ Architects included in international list of leaders
New Zealand architects, Patterson Associates has been named by the world’s top architectural journal as one of five international practices set to shape the future of architecture as leading lights in the 21st century.
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News from Salford Advertiser - 05/05/2011
Salford University plans for new student village in disarray
Salford University bosses may oppose private proposals for student flats because they clash with their own plans. Manor Property Group hopes to build £60m of luxury flats on the outskirts of the campus but university managers say the proposal could undermine their own plans for a new student village.
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News from The Globe and Mail - 04/28/2011
On Site: Condos to share space art school
Partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design
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News from National Post - 04/03/2011
Cooking the books
The kitchen is set up in a basement below a bustling Parkdale café. Jars of silver dragées stand sentinel on a ledge above the stainless steel counter.
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News from The Globe and Mail - 04/01/2011
Lina Bo Bardi: Outside the Pritzker Prize boys’ club
In Sao Paulo, you come face to face with architect Lina Bo Bardi’s gift to one of the world’s biggest cities. How has this woman been missed by architecture’s big award?
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News from Independent - 03/26/2011
Introducing the new Montmartre: it's Del boy's manor, Peckham SE15
One boasts the Sacré-Coeur, Salvador Dali, Picasso and Van Gogh. The other has abandoned car parks and dark echoes of the murder of Damilola Taylor. On the face of it, Paris's famed Montmartre and London's infamous Peckham have very little in common. But all that is about to change.
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News from Independent - 03/08/2011
Architects' Sketchbooks: Back to the drawing board
If you were asked to draw a building, what would you do? A square with a triangle on top, perhaps with four smaller squares and a rectangle inside, for the windows and doors? Most of us would probably come up with some variation on the childish doodle of the dream family home. But what if someone asked you to draw a completely new building? You'd likely be stumped.
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News from The Scotsman - 03/03/2011
RMJM: The highs and lows
20 April, 1999 - Work starts on the new Scottish Parliament, left, designed by RMJM and Enric Miralles.
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News from Spacing Wire - 02/10/2011
NO MEAN CITY: Will Alsop, subways and context
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex's personal blog on architecture I'm happy to see that the Toronto Star has stirred up some debate about architecture. The topic: Will Alsop's design for the new Steeles West subway station. (The TTC website has only a big PDF of images. Check the CBC's slideshow here.) Christopher Hume calls [...]
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News from Toronto Star - 02/08/2011
Steeles West subway station gets hip, downtown facade
Organic, whimsical, a monster or a flying saucer — the new Steeles West subway station design makes a statement.
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News from Toronto Star - 02/07/2011
Suburban station gets a hip, downtown facade
Organic, whimsical, a monster or a flying saucer — the new Steeles West subway station design makes a statement.
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News from Independent - 01/24/2011
Will Alsop: back at school
The Aylesbury housing estate, near the Elephant and Castle in south London, is a 28-hectare urban circuit-board composed of more than 30 slab-blocks designed in the 1960s and completed in 1977. It has the worst inner-city "adversity" rating in Britain, and one newspaper once stigmatised it as "Hell's waiting-room". It was here, too, that Tony Blair made his first and perhaps most fundamentally ...
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News from Yorkshire Post - 01/16/2011
Politicians blast cost of Bradford projects with no start date
POLITICIANS and civic leaders in Bradford have condemned the high levels of public money spent on consultants for city centre regeneration schemes, most of which have failed t
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