Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Da Vinci comes to life 500 years on Almost 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci sketched out what fans call the "Mona Lisa of bridges" and what critics said could not be built.
Five centuries after a Turkish sultan rejected the project the bridge opened yesterday, albeit 1,500 miles north of the sunny spot he intended.

AJ from The Architects’ Journal. Architecture news and information. Companies, buildings, design, products, jobs Energy surveys slam UK buildings



Two reports from the Oxford Energy Advice Centre and the Association for the Conservation of Energy have attacked UK residential and commercial buildings for their lack of energy efficiency.

Guardian Unlimited Observer | Review | Strictly for faux village people Strictly for faux village people

An attempt to create a new London village is marred by bad design and execution

Deyan Sudjic
Sunday October 28, 2001

Chris Gray design portfolio Queens Plaza Ideas Competition

"Queens Plaza Ideas Competition [COMPETITION TEXT]
Kinetic & Acoustic
We live…
The city leaps in a dance of a million moves.
The city sings with the music of a million notes."

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Bricks and mortals "Architecture is not a great profession," he says. "It is not particularly well paid and it is extremely hard to do something good."

. : Nightscapes and Glass Buildings

"Erieta Attali is a young Greek photographer whose focus as an artist has tended to occupy a no man’s land between landscape, archaeology, and architecture."

Kenneth Frampton

The Artistic Dimension, Hellenic Ministry of Culture The landscapes of Erieta Attali. “First and Last Landscapes” (1996), the human element has completely vanished, leaving behind a hard and merciless landscape: “Here are no longer any signs of man, just earth, stone and sky, as though in these dry mountains and arid valleys the alchemical elements had been reduced to two… As Attali’s title suggests, these landscapes are either very young or very old: empty and waiting, a tabula rasa, or else drained and exhausted”.

ArchiNed News: Hageneiland VINEX MVRDV If so many people buy pullovers from H&M, then what's the problem with a house by MVRDV?

AJ from The Architects’ Journal. Metaphor tastes Turkish delight with archaeological museum win – images

New London-based practice Metaphor has won an extraordinary commission to design a temporary museum of archaeology at Zeugma in south-east Anatolia, Turkey.

AJ from The Architects’ Journal. Scots: ‘now sort out planning’

The RIAS has called for the planning system in Scotland to be overhauled and markedly improved by involving more architects in the development control process.

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War is declared: yes, Prince Charles is at it again

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Scotland launches ‘vital’ policy on architecture

Scotland now has a national policy on architecture for Scotland which will make a "vital" contribution to improving people's lives socially, economically, culturally and environmentally, the country’s Deputy Culture Minister Allan Wilson said today.

AJ from The Architects’ Journal. Architecture news and information. Companies, buildings, design, products, jobs Tadao Ando scoops US art institute project



Tadao Ando is to design a new building to house the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s collections and special exhibitions in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in the US.

The architect will design a new facility for the Institute to support its research and academic programmes and house the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. The Clark has already selected landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand to work with Ando to house its 140 acre rural Berkshire site.

AJ from The Architects’ Journal. Architecture news and information. Companies, buildings, design, products, jobs Tall versus terror - 1.10.1



Rather more considered stories about tall buildings reach the Sunday papers this week, following the spate of ‘no-one will ever go in one again’ stuff that followed NY11/9.