Recently added articles from The Architectural Review:
An alternative view of Ando and Piano's curatorial architecture in Venice.(VENICE, ITALY)
Nov 01, 2009; ... The Punta della Dogana (AR October 2009) art gallery, with its bronze weathercock statue of Fortune turning over a gilt world globe atop a square tower, was where merchants brought their goods to be taxed before they were shipped to the warehouses of their palaces further up the Grand ...
Festival weaves a royal web.(SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Swathed in what appears to be filaments from a monstrous web, downtown Seoul looks like it's under attack from a giant spider. The reality, of course, is rather less apocalyptic. Strung between buildings and scaffolding towers, the gracefully swooping strips of fabric are a quick way to ...
Helsinki's new masterplans are impressive--but are they fresh?(HELSINKI, FINLAND)
Nov 01, 2009; ... At the end of last year, Vuosaari Harbour, a huge new container port to the east of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, opened. This modern, 150-hectare harbour has liberated key sites in central Helsinki that will play host to two of the largest mixed-use masterplans in Europe, and provide 30 ...
Artists give a human face to neglected east-end estate.(LONDON, UK)(artists Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Tristan Fennell)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Boarded-up housing estates are symbols of doom and gloom in the modern urban landscape. However, there are those willing to change this perception as seen in the installation I am here (pictured) by artist collective Fugitive Images (FI). Their installation replaces 67 bright orange boards ...
Heatherwick's aluminium experiments.(LONDON, UK)(British designer Thomas Heatherwick)(Haunch of Venison Gallery in London)
Nov 01, 2009; ... I meet Thomas Heatherwick at the Haunch of Venison Gallery in London. Due to make a speech at the opening of his Extrusions exhibition, he seems relaxed, but alert. This exhibition--from the superstar British designer preposterously dubbed 'as talented as Leonardo da Vinci' by Terence ...