Monthly Archives: December 2006

19 Dec 06

Greater Helsinki Vision 2050

A new international competition for planning Helsinkis’ future has been launched. It’s scope and scale is massive and it’s not often you get the chance to reimagine a Capital city like this. The Competition briefing information alone is a great repository of information about Helsinki and indeed the Baltic. Visit greaterhelsinkivision for details also see [...]
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14 Dec 06

I amsterdam

I love Amsterdam. I lived there for two years, and fell in love there. The city is a fantastic backdrop to life which contains wonders for anyone and everyone, from the cross eyed French teenagers stumbling out of their coffee shops we sometimes bumped into outside our front door to rich retired couples shopping for [...]
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12 Dec 06

Gazprom City Controversy

On the 1st December RMJM won the gazprom city competition in St.Petersburg. But an interesting development was that the Architects walked off the jury before the winner was announced. Norman Foster and Rafael Viñoly walked off the jury that chose RMJM’s designs for the massive Gazprom City development in St Petersburg. The two stars joined [...]
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8 Dec 06

Architecture Lectures at Harvard

Some Architectural Lectures (via) from Harvard School of Design. The Webcasts page has a full list. I’ve only watched Rem Koolhaus and Ben van Berkel so far, but its a wonderful resource, and something which all design schools should be doing. Now I am using a tagging system as well as a category system on [...]
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