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Will Alsop's posthumous building, the £2m Neuron Pod, has completed at the Queen Mary University of London's campus. Shaped like a giant porcupine, the structure comes complete with illuminated fibre-optic spines and will serve as the school's new neurological education pod, where science shows... View full entry
Heliport Heights, an unconventional orange-steel housing block and the final major London project designed by the late British architect Will Alsop, will be moving forward. The 20 story building, comprised of 15 floors of apartments built atop the pre-existing Heliport House, is set to rise along... View full entry
The news of British architect Will Alsop's death over the weekend was met with an outpouring of sympathy from fellow architects and journalists around the web. A recipient of the RIBA's Stirling Prize for his Peckham Library building in 2000, an avid painter, and master of seemingly floating... View full entry
Will Alsop has announced he is leaving international architecture firm RMJM to form a new practice. The new company, established with fellow RMJM principal Scott Lawrie and covering architecture, masterplanning, interiors, landscape, product and graphic design, involves a number of other staff who worked at Alsop’s division within the firm. — building.co.uk
Mr. Alsop is a famously convivial figure whose well-upholstered frame suggests that restaurants and sofas loom larger on his recreational agenda than rollerblading and tae kwon do. - Wall Street Journal View full entry
Toronto's Ryerson University has announced the appointment of Alsop to Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Architecture. Press release after the jump...WILL ALSOP APPOINTED RYERSON DISTINGUISHED VISITING PRACTITIONER IN ARCHITECTURETORONTO, Nov.5, 2009--- Famed British architect Will Alsop has... View full entry
Following up on the latest buzz about Will Alsop: we received an official statement from Alsop's new employer RMJM about future collaborations under the branded design studio "Will Alsop at RMJM". More after the break.Internationally acclaimed architect Alsop turns focus to NYC(NEW YORK) —... View full entry
Alsop admitted that his claim about devoting his time to painting had not been the whole truth. TimesOnline | Previously on Archinect View full entry
Will Alsop, who we reported the other day has left his own UK-based architecture practice, has just been announced to join the faculty at Toronto's Ryerson University architecture department. The Star"Let's put it this way," says the unconventional architect/painter, "if Harvard were to ask me to... View full entry
British architecture’s most colourful personality, Will Alsop, is to leave the practice that bears his name in a dramatic cutting of ties with parent company Archial.Following 30 years of running a private practice, the 61-year-old has told BD that he will shortly hand over day-to-day management... View full entry
For a redesign of Coney Island—if not the world’s most famous amusement park, certainly its most iconoclastic—who would be the ideal architect? How about Frank Gehry? Too mainstream. Asymptote? Too polished. Lebbeus Woods? Too theoretical. Well what about Will Alsop? Now there is a carnival... View full entry
