Tag: architects
-
Back to the Futuro: the spaceship house that landed in Yorkshire
Dreamed up in Finland and shaped like a flying saucer, Matti Suuronen’s ‘house of the future’ turned out to be an impractical curio – but its atomic-age aesthetics are still alluring
-
Architecture biennale 2018: all hail the new queens of Venice
The appointment of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara as curators of the great architecture biennale is striking – but no one who knows their work should be surprised
-
Mutts-have: architects create luxury kennels for pet charity auction
Celebrities and designers also turn their hand to producing pooch palaces for event
-
Meet Liz Diller, the rebel architect behind MoMA, the High Line and now a home for Simon Rattle
Her practice beat Foster, Gehry and Piano to clinch London’s new £250m Centre for Music. She talks about fuelling gentrification – and why arts buildings have to be more than corporate baubles
-
Foundation stone: leading architects on the homes that shaped them
How does your childhood home influence the one you make yourself? Seven leading architects look back at the foundations of their career
-
The 2016 Jacques Rougerie Foundation International Competition is open
The 2016 Jacques Rougerie Foundation launches the International Competition in Architecture 2016. Imagine your future. Make your dreams real. Encourage, stimulate and reward creativity and boldness, this is the Jacques Rougerie – Space and Sea Generation Foundation – Institut de France award’s ambition. Every year the Jacques Rougerie Foundation announces an International Competition in Architecture for…