Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Architectural Review (March 2010)

The latest issue of The architectural review is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

VIEW
  • Herzog & de Meuron plays architectural Jenga with its VitraHaus in Germany
  • Architectural responses to Haiti's earthquake lack genuine motives
  • 'I'm listening', says IM Pei, at the annual RIBA Gold Medal crit
  • Winners announced for student housing competition in Athens
  • Outrage: campaigners out 'cultural vandalism' in Moscow
  • Why has New Zealand put up with bad architecture for so long?
  • The San Carlo Opera House reopens in Naples
  • Vancouver's Winter Olympics - the most anti-design in half a century

BUILDINGS

  • Map
  • Tony Frettson Architects -- British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland
  • Tham & VidegĂ„rd Arkitekter -- Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
  • Amateur Architecture Studio -- Ningbo Museum, Yinzhou, Ningbo, China
  • Makeka Design Laboratory -- Thusong Service Centre, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Aires Mateus -- Santa Maria Lighthouse Museum, Cascais, Portugal

SKILL

  • Sean Godsell Architects -- An orientation-specific facade with a sequinned skin at Sean Godsell's RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne

DR

  • As Stockholm Furniture Fair revels in the spirit of collaboration, the AR reviews the offerings in this year's design exhibition

MARGINALIA

  • A monograph from Bolles+Wilson; Christian Boltanski's Personnes installation; Contemplating the Void at the Guggenheim; 50 years of design by Alan Fletcher

BACK PAGE

  • Rut Blees Luxemburg's final instalment investigating space in photography

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