“It is an absolutely dumbfounding surprise [...] I stopped following architecture years ago, so I had no idea there was this renewed interest in my work until recently. I thought my buildings were a curiosity of the past that people had largely forgotten about.”
Brown is now celebrated for his inventive housing schemes and enjoys the accolade of being the only living architect to have all of his work in the UK listed. But recognition has been a long time coming.
— The Guardian
Social housing pioneer Neave Brown, now 88 years old, was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, the UK's highest accolade for architecture, just a week ago. The Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright got a chance to chat with Brown about his career and good London housing. Current condition... View full entry
Looking for a job? Archinect's Employer of the Day Weekly Round-Up can help start off your hunt amid the hundreds of active listings on our job board. If you've been following the feature on our Facebook, Employer of the Day is where we highlight active employers and showcase a gallery of... View full entry
The 5th issue of BRACKET just launched its Call for Submissions, and this time the theme is [On Sharing]. Electronic Submission System Launch: January 10th, 2018Submissions Due: February 4th, 2018, Midnight EST The following is the full submission brief: Bracket [On Sharing] Sharing is one of the... View full entry
Today is everyone's favorite modernist architect Le Corbusier's birthday. Well, almost everyone's that is... <span id="selection-marker-1"... View full entry
Competition has narrowed down for the RIBA 2017 President's Awards for Research, which distinguish the best architectural research projects by students, academics, and practitioners from around the world. Today, RIBA revealed the 2017 shortlisted projects that explore a variety... View full entry
Three weeks after the category four Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on 20 September, devastating the US Island, knocking out power and killing an as yet undetermined number of residents, local museums are back to work and helping with community relief efforts. — The Art Newspaper
While the U.S. President spent his visit in double-hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico tossing rolls of paper towels into the crowd like t-shirts at a Knicks game, the island's museums are busy assessing the damage and getting their institutions reopened to the public. View full entry
Do you dream of reading and writing for three month in a London glass house? Designed by Lord Rogers in 1968, the Wimbledon house was gifted to Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2015 and now host the participants of the Richard Rochers Fellowship. Full release follows: Open to... View full entry
Jason and Jodi Chapnik, who live in a multi-million dollar home on Strathearn Rd., filed a lawsuit against their neighbours for remodeling a nearby property on Vesta Dr. to look “strikingly similar” to their house. — The Star
The couple sued their neighbors for $2.5 million—$1.5 million in damages, $20,000 in statutory copyright damages, $1 million in punitive damages, and a mandatory injunction on the defendant to change the design of the home. The lawsuit was filed against their neighbor Barbara Ann Kirshenblatt... View full entry
What could be more fitting as a symbol of rebirth in the City of Light, than a golden sun streaming spiralling metal rays? That’s the resplendent installation that Louis Vuitton visual creative director Faye Mcleod conceived for the façade of the maison’s new Peter Marino-designed Paris flagship. — Wallpaper
Louis Vuitton moves back to Place Vendôme in the most expensive part of Paris. The store occupies two 18th centurary hôtel particuliers. On the building façade, shines a giant golden sun. Apart from this addition, the exterior has not been transformed. The interiors of the store are... View full entry
Once the renovation is complete, the four-storey building will be used as a venue for art exhibitions, installations and seminars that will be open to the public, as well as a philanthropic institution to help vulnerable people including refugees...any old material removed from the building will have to be taken away in barges along Venice’s canals, while new material will have to be brought in the same way. — The Telegraph
David Chipperfield will lead the painstaking renovation of the monumental Procuratie Vecchie in Venice's St. Mark's Square. When the project is complete in 2020, the building will be accessible to the public for the first time in some 500 years. View full entry
Who would have thought cathedral accounts on social media would be so entertaining? Some social media users were certainly amused earlier this week when St Paul's Cathedral in London, boasted about how, on World Architecture Day, England's cathedrals "have got this well covered". — BBC
St Paul's Cathedral in London initiated a church face-off on social media for architecture day. Churches and Cathedrals responded bragging about their buildings and mocking fellow churches. Religious architecture has never been so funny. ... View full entry
Nothing should stand between you and the comfort and enjoyment a fireplace brings. Over the last 40 years, leading hearth manufacturer Napoleon has been dedicated to creating state-of-the-art fireplaces that surpass industry standards, look effortlessly beautiful in a range of settings, and are... View full entry
Designed by Foster + Partners, Bloomberg L.P.'s new European headquarters in London has been dubbed as the “world's most sustainable office building”, the architecture firm announced. Housing Bloomberg's 4,000 London employees, the office building was rated as “Outstanding” in the BREEAM... View full entry
One year after Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects won the three-stage international competition to design the new Shanghai East Library, the project passed another milestone with its official groundbreaking ceremony on September 27. Sitting adjacent to Century Park in Shanghai's Pudong... View full entry
Today, London’s civic spaces are the byproduct of commercial development, the results of promises made by developers to create public amenity as a condition of planning consent. Ironically, Paris, which once imported its radical architecture from London in the form of the Pompidou Centre, now has a much more visionary approach to building, (...) it is much more of a nexus for interesting architecture. — Financial Times
London's contemporary architecture seems to have lost the radical qualities of British Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s. View full entry