Architecture
Hidden treasure: London's Leighton House is about to re-open after a £1.6m facelift
The 19th-century President of the Royal Academy, Frederic, Lord Leighton spent 30 years creating his very own "Private Palace of Art" on the edge of west London's Holland Park. It wasn't straightforward, but neither was his vision. Starting with a single house in 1866, designed by the architect George Aitchison under the watchful eye of the proprietor, the painter and sculptor Leighton slowly added a domed two-storey extension, which he stuffed with the most exquisite materials and furnishings the world's more remote regions had to offer. Three decades later, his labour of love was finally complete.
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Chicago skyscraper wins 2009 architecture award
Friday, 26 February 2010
Chicago's 81-storey Aqua hotel and residence has won the prominent Emporis Award for best skyscraper of 2009, the global building data base said here Wednesday.
For its new English home, America builds a castle
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
With its moat, car bomb-proof stand-off zone and clear view of any approaching terrorists, it could be 21st-century version of a castle.
'Children will suffer if school building programme is cut,' says CABE
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Pupils should not be taught in 'dingy' buildings, architecture adviser says
Learning curve: Sanaa's spectacular floating Lausanne library rockets them into architecture's premier league
Thursday, 18 February 2010
In Lausanne yesterday, the feted Japanese architects Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – aka Sanaa – became the profession's anointed artists of the floating world.
Norman Foster: A reputation built to last
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
A film about Norman Foster has made its debut in Berlin. The architect makes for a gripping subject, says Geoffrey Macnab
The architecture firm that reached for the sky
Monday, 15 February 2010
Burj Khalifa. The Sears Tower. The World Trade Center... If it's a colossal construction, then Skidmore, Owings & Merrill probably designed it. Jay Merrick gets the measure of global architecture's biggest beasts
Battle to save Britain's Brutalist buildings from the bulldozer
Saturday, 6 February 2010
Snub by Culture minister raises fears that another Modernist construction is doomed
Observations: Asif Khan has caught the eye of London's Design Museum
Friday, 22 January 2010
The architect as designer
Politicians outraged as Sir Fred starts new job
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Politicians' "disgust" at the news of former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin's job at an architectural firm.
Why are St Petersburg's mansions being left to rot?
Saturday, 16 January 2010
City's impressive houses were built for aristocrats and millionaires of their day.
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