Monday, May 31, 2010

The Architectural Review (April 2010)

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

Contents:

VIEW
  • SANAA's sculptured, stoic Swiss university building opens
  • Architects from the Commonwealth debate sustainability at the CAA conference in Sri Lanka
  • Johan Celsing's crematorium for Stockholm's Woodland Cemetery
  • The vast MGM development in Las Vegas sets a new trend for urbanism
  • Buildings emerge as the stars of the show at London Fashion Week
  • Bulgaria considers a contemporary art space for its capital, Sofia
  • Zvi Hecker proposes a public 'reunification' square for Berlin
  • AR House, a new £10,000 award for the design of the best one-off house

BUILDINGS

  • Map
  • Herzog & de Meuron VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein, Germany
  • DHK Architects, Twothink Architecture Ahmed Baba Centre, Timbuktu, Mali
  • Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects Jovanovich House, Los Angeles, USA
  • Kengo Kuma & Associates Nezu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • Markus Scherer, Walter Dietl Il Forte di Fortezza, Fortezza, Italy
  • Office of Architecture in Barcelona Azahar Group headquarters, Castellón, Spain

SKILL

  • Fast + Epp A look at the world's longest glulam wood/steel arches, at the Richmond Olympic Oval skating venue in Canada

EXPLORING EYE

  • The Casbah in context: Algiers' historic neighbourhood and World Heritage site now faces overcrowding and ruin

COMPETITION

  • CAA international Student Design Competition The five winning entries from a worldwide contest to design a memorial for a significant event

MARGINALIA

  • Djenné, the city of mud; history and subversion at an exhibition of quilts; the creative condition of Japan; Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill at the V&A

DELIGHT

  • Delight Antony Gormley colonises the Geometric Staircase at St Paul's with a sculpture exploring art and faith

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