Archinect - News2013-05-18T21:15:58-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/61718170/watch-koolhaas-hadid-rogers-stirk-harbour-and-foster-pitch-their-proposals-for-the-new-l-l-tower
Watch Koolhaas; Hadid; Rogers Stirk Harbour; and Foster pitch their proposals for the new L&L Tower Archinect2012-11-19T12:32:00-05:00>2012-12-05T14:57:14-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/gr/grpd7wbmqxhhi8fq.jpg" width="514" height="359" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The series of videos below offers a fascinating insight into how this generation of "starchitects" behaves under pressure, as they each pitch to win one of the most high-profile competitions in recent years: a new tower for L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. The site has such daunting neighbours as Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building, and it will be the first full-block office tower to be built on the street in almost half a century.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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A Pompidou-style mall with a stunning view Nam Henderson2011-06-03T14:12:13-04:00>2011-06-07T12:15:44-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/fd/fd8u6b50db2lhmlz.jpg" width="514" height="341" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>"It might have been easier to completely rebuild it," Rogers tells me. "It was a very weak structure with very thin walls. We had to shore the facade, then almost completely rebuild it inside. But the thing they insisted on, and I think they were proven right, was keeping the circular form, the historic form. It's not just a building – it's a piece of Barcelona."</p></em><br /><br /><p>
Steve Rose reviews Las Arenas, Barcelona's former bullring and its newest shopping mall completed in March by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. He finds that the people of Barcelona are now flocking back to this once cherished second bullring.</p>