The Angry Architect
20 Fenchurch Street — known by Londoners, not so affectionately, as the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ — has ruffle d more than a few feathers during its ungainly rise from the north bank of the Thames River. Its thuggish, lumbering form has been met with a tidal wave of derision from the U.K’s leading architecture critics, not to mention…
It’s official: The United States Olympic Committee has selected Boston for its bid for the Summer Ol ympics in 2024. In a hard-fought competition against Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C., Beantwon came out on top and will now begin its campaign to host the summer games in nine years’ time. The USA was the…
The igloo is surely one of the finest — and earliest — examples of modernism the world has ever seen . Louis Sullivan may have coined those famous words ‘form ever follows function’ back in 1896, but the Inuits of the Arctic North have been putting that principle into practice in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland for…
“How far apart should those ceiling shackles be? What dimensions did you want for that waterboard? A nd of course, I think it all looks best in black.” The relationship between architecture and ethics has always been a turbulent one, and debates over the moral responsibilities of our profession have reached fever pitch in recent times.…
These projects pitted cultural heritage against the potential of urban renewal.
Check out Parts 1, 2 and 3 if you haven’t already! As autumn turned to winter, things got frosty in a media conference in Spain… Gehry’s retort. Via The Guardian OCTOBER Frank Gehry cranked up the controversy — and his middle finger — when asked for his response to accusations that he produces “showy architecture.”…
If one didn’t know better, they might think that IKEA’s sole contribution to the world of architectu re is a liberal sprinkling of royal blue and lemon yellow boxes across the globe. They’ve brought a lot more to the flat-pack table than that though, and their latest playful addition is a 3D floor plan — or…