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 Japanese [...]
As an Architect you win some and you lose some, I took part with my office in a design competition for Aviapolis Tower which we lost. Davidsson won, and the winning entry image is top left. Its an interesting development mainly because of its height. At about 100 metres high it puts this project at [...]
Finnish Europan Winners announced yesterday and they have even managed to build a couple unlike some places!
The Museum of History of Polish Jews by Lahdelma & Mahlamaki is having some problems see the Archinect page about it. The masterplan is up for debate and the issue of Authenticity in Museums comes under scrutiny again. The building is to be somewhere in the Warsaw ghetto and may have a reconstruction of a [...]
Scottish Parliament wins the Stirling prize 2005 which goes to show how much I know (see last post for my prediction!). Anyway a worthy and probably right winner as I think it fulflls the purpose of the prize the best out of the contestants.
This Saturday the winner of the 2005 Stirling Prize will be announced, while this article in the Guardian, interviews the people of Europes largest Housing estate which is about to be knocked down. My money is on the Lewis Gluckmans Gallery.
Up today the 2005 shortlist is,
BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany - Zaha Hadid Architects
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland – O’Donnell + Tuomey
The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh - EMBT / RMJM Ltd
McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey - Foster and Partners
Jubilee Library, Brighton, Sussex - Bennetts Associates with Lomax Cassidy + Edwards
Fawood Children’s Centre, Harlesden, NW10 [...]
