The Architectural Review back issues from May 2007:
Prague booking: Jan Kaplicky creates Prague's New Library.
May 01, 2007; ... One might have thought that there was a certain inevitability about Jan Kaplicky/Future Systems winning the competition for the New National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague. As one of the idealists who left the country after the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, heading for London and a new ...
Performing art: Mecanoo win in Taiwan.(Mecanoo wins international design competition award for designing arts center)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... At the end of March, Mecanoo was announced as the winner of an international design competition to design the new National Performing Arts Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Beating Zaha Hadid Architects into second place, and the relative small office of Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama + Amorphe, the ...
Wilkinson Eyre Architects have unveiled proposals for the House of Human Rights Cultural Centre in Milan.(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Wilkinson Eyre Architects have unveiled proposals for the House of Human Rights Cultural Centre in Milan. Launched in collaboration with Amnesty International, the building considers public space in relation to a broad range of activities from leisure to learning, debate to design, theatre ...
Rogers wins Pritzker.(Richard Rogers winning the Pritzker Prize)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007; ... Lord Rogers of Riverside, better known as Richard Rogers, has won this year's Pritzker Prize. Rogers has been a major figure on the international architecture scene since the 1970s and the completion of the Pompidou Centre, the competition-winning design by Rogers, Renzo Piano and Ted ...
Sustainability and Europe.
May 01, 2007 ... The continuing interest in the relationship between sustainability and architecture has prompted an Anglo-German initiative taking place at the RIBA, London, on 30 May (12.30 to 5.30). The half-day seminar for young European architects, supported by the Architectural Review, will be ...
AR Awards early alert.(emerging architecture awards)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... The AR Awards for Emerging Architecture are entering their ninth cycle. Inaugurated in 1999, the awards are intended to bring wider recognition to a talented new generation of architects and designers under 45. Entries for this year's awards are now being called for. The prize ...
Errata.(Correction notice)
May 01, 2007 ... The library at Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan (AR February) was by Shigeru Ban Architects--Shigeru Ban, Nobutaka Hiraga. The structural engineer was Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc. ...
Peter Cook: Berlin may be entering a new era where free spirits reign again.(political aspects of architects and design and construction of buildings)
May 01, 2007; ... In earlier years I was always leaned upon to be more political, take more account of politics, notice more how politics affect our architectural decisions. I was reminded of this when I returned this month to Berlin. There are three layers that I have to deal with in my mind: the first ...
Test beds: considered collectively, key houses usefully summarise broader architectural tendencies.(design and construction and works of architects)
May 01, 2007; ... A cliche wouldn't be a cliche if it didn't contain an element of truth. As such the notion of the house as laboratory of architectural ideas is a well-used and largely well-applied statement. In his publication, Key Houses of the Twentieth Century,* Colin Davies argues that while ...
Swiss protocol: a new ambassadorial residence mixes formality with sensuality.(design and construction of a new ambassadorial building)
May 01, 2007; ... The architecture of diplomacy has a distinguished recent history. Signalled in 1931 by the embassy and residence designed by Edwin Lutyens that created a grand country house for the British ambassador in Washington DC, it has been advanced by inspired, albeit unbuilt, proposals by Louis ...
Stair master: this house in northern Portugal is a triumph over a difficult sloping site.
May 01, 2007; ... Like father, like son. Alvaro Leite Siza bears the same name as his famous father, and this house in northern Portugal manifests all the qualities of elegant reticence that have come to characterise the Porto maestro's oeuvre. However, when commissioned to build a weekend house on an ...
The good life: Jamie Fobert Architects extends its reach.(designing of a farm house by Jamie Fobert Architects )
May 01, 2007; ... As convention has it, a formula does apply when moving from metropolitan city existence to ideal country life. First, swap SUV for Land Rover, so as not to look conspicuous, and then search for a redundant farm that allows you to bring a bit of Kensington and Chelsea to the fens, the moors ...
Hidden treasure: this family house in Osaka explores a language of exquisite minimalism.(design and construction of a residential house by Kulapat Yantrasast)
May 01, 2007; ... Kulapat Yantrasast grew up in Thailand, spent 14 years in Japan (seven of those with Tadao Ando in Osaka) and now has his own practice in LA. He was still working in Ando's office when an art dealer friend introduced him to a local landowner who wanted an architect to design a house for ...
White cube: Alberto Campo Baeza's Iberian extremism finds renewed expression.(design and construction of house)
May 01, 2007; ... Known for his exquisite distillations of traditional Iberian architecture, Alberto Campo Baeza nudges the boundaries of his self-imposed asceticism with this latest house at Zahora, on Spain's Atlantic Costa de la Luz. Set on the edge of town, the Casa Guerrero appears as an utterly ...
Vertical sculpture: a Coop Himmelb(l)au house is dynamically reborn.(redesigning of residential house)
May 01, 2007; ... A decade before Coop Himmelb(l)au became a major player, Wolf Prix followed the lead of Schindler, Neutra and other compatriots who journeyed from Vienna to LA. His timing was bad; the city was soon mired in the recession of the 1990s, and the client who commissioned the transparent Open ...
Space oddity: UN Studio's new house in upstate New York is a provocative exploration of space.
May 01, 2007; ... This family summer house lies in the Catskills, some two hours' drive upstate from New York City. Originally a favourite holiday destination for the city's elite during the 1920s and '30s, the area is perhaps most famous for the Woodstock festival. Since those heady days, however, it ...
Young house.(design of houses for awards of architectural services)
May 01, 2007; ... For the last eight years the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture have consistently attracted hundreds of entries from architects and designers below the age of 45.* In 2006, 462 entries were received from 53 countries. Within this varied array, that ranged in scale and complexity from ...
Specifier's information.(Dakota Eurocentral Hotels design and construction due to the use of colorcoat prisma )(Hacel Lighting's updating desire catalogue of die cast alluminium)(evaluation and design and construction of sliding doors)
May 01, 2007 ... Corus The recently completed Dakota Eurocentral Hotel near Motherwell owes its striking external appearance to the use of Colorcoat Prisma[R] from Corus. The pre-finished steel has been used as part of a Corus Panels and Profiles composite cladding system. Colorcoat Prisma[R] is ...
Craft skills.(design and construction of art objects)
May 01, 2007; ... THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT By Rosalind P. Blakesley. London: Phaidon. 2006. [pounds sterling]39.95 'The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster.' So 'men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in ...
Fun with cyber Geometry.(conferences of architectural services)
May 01, 2007; ... GAME SET AND MATCH II: ON COMPUTER GAMES, ADVANCED GEOMETRIES AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Edited by Kas Oosterhuis, Lukas Feireiss. Rotterdam: Episode Publishers. 2007. [euro]45 This book is an amalgam of papers presented at a conference in Delft from 29 March to 1 ...
This is not a drill.(educational aspects and works of architects)
May 01, 2007; ... 5 CODES: ARCHITECTURE, PARANOIA AND RISK IN TIMES OFTERROR Edited by IGMADE. Basel: Birkhauser. 2006. $40 Some people will recall the heady days of the early 1970s when such as Peter Eisenman could give a lecture which focused on theory, in his case a trivial reading ...
Danish operatics.(evauation of books on architecture services)
May 01, 2007; ... BUILDING A MASTERPIECE: THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE Edited by Anne Watson, Aldershot: Lund Humphries. 2006. [pounds sterling]35 OVE ARUP: MASTERBUILDER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By Peter Jones. London: Yale University Press. 2006. [pounds sterling]25 ...
Touching the void.(Peter Eisenmans work in the field of architecture )
May 01, 2007; ... WRITTEN IN TO THE VOID: SELECTED WRITINGS 1990-2004 By Peter Eisenman. London: Yale University Press. 2007. [pounds sterling]25 The cultish world of architectural 'theory' is almost by definition indifferent to the vulgar concerns of mere outsiders, and nothing can ...
Stadia--A design and development guide.(design and construction of olympic stadium)(Brief article)
May 01, 2007 ... The design team that gave us the Sydney Olympic Stadium, the Emirates Stadium in London, who codesigned Wembley, and are Wembley, and are working on the 2012 Olympic stadium, have produced a fourth edition of Stadia--A design and ...
Brits get gritty: the gritty but fertile underbelly of London life underpins this exhibition of young architects living and working in the metropolis.(reviews)
May 01, 2007; ... The best places for viewing the works of a young generation of London-based architects may be the city's canals, judging from the exhibition Gritty Brits, currently showing at the Heinz Architectural Center at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. Organised by curator Raymund Ryan, Gritty ...
Twirling vigorously, Sutherland Lyall dances round the cyber maypole.(design and construction and evaluation of Web pages (World Wide Web) of architectural services)(Viewpoint essay)
May 01, 2007; ... Talking heads Mugshots. Now I've seen everything. Admittedly its only three blokes, all directors of the Belgian practice Styfhals & Partners, at www.styfhalspartners.be, but when you click on their page their upper torsos remain fixed while their heads follow your cursor around ...
Diary.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
May 01, 2007 ... AR'S CHOICE OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS DENMARK CINDY SHERMAN: 30 YEARS OF STAGED PHOTOGRAPHY Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Until 20 May This exhibition traces the career of Cindy Sherman who uses herself as ...
Delight: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park celebrates thirty years with new work by Andy Goldsworthy.
May 01, 2007; ... Twenty years ago, when Andy Goldsworthy was artist in residence at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), he wondered whether he could suspend a stalk screen between two branches 450mm apart. He has now returned to create the largest and most ambitious exhibition ever hosted there. In the ...