Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Architectural Review (October 2010)

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

Contents:

VIEW
  • Going Dutch with the irrepressible Rem Koolhaas in Venice
  • Proposed Muslim centre near Ground Zero stirs up controversy
  • The AR launches a campaign to save historic Old Tbilisi town, Georgia
  • Product design is redundant, declares symposium of designers
  • Peter Eisenman fails to translate a seductive proposal into a successful City of Culture for Spain
  • Southern Sudan seeks to build a giant rhinoceros-shaped city
  • The fruits of Steven Holl's labour go on display in an Italian castle
  • Architectural gold dush at the World Architecture Festival

BUILDINGS

  • Map
  • Sou Fujimoto Architects Musashina Art University Library, Tokyo, Japan
  • Carmody Groarke Studio East Dining, Stratford, London, UK
  • Acme Hunsett Mill, Stalham, Norfolk, UK
  • Bayón Arquitectos Hospedería del Monasterio de Poblet, Poblet, Catalonia, Spain
  • Édouard François Housing development, Grenoble, France
  • Studio Anne Holtrop Temporary Museum (Lake), Heemskerk, the Netherlands

EXPLORING EYE

  • Venturing into the heart of the Malaysian jungle to discover the nomadic Batek tribe's temporary architecture

DR

  • The London Design Festival communicates a crafty use of materials and suggestive silhouettes

MARGINALIA

  • An extensive exploration of the Venice Biennale's sensuous delights and pavilion peculiarities

DELIGHT

  • Sketches, film footage, and virtual conversation to celebrate Cedric Price, 'observer of human nature'

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