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Rem Koolhaas's design for the
new Prada Foundation in Milan. (Fondazione
Prada/OMA/AMO)
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Prada's Plans
(Milan) - What does the next collaboration between
Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada look like? The world is about
to find out. The Office of Metropolitan Architecture, which
is led by the visionary Dutch architect, has been
commissioned to oversee the transformation of an early
20th-century industrial complex at Largo Isarco, in Milan,
into the Prada Foundation's new headquarters. An auditorium,
a tower and an exhibition building will be added to the
seven existing structures and courtyard, creating a total of
188,000 square feet of space for shows, including an
innovative hybrid storageand- display area. The project
marks a fundamental change in direction for the Prada
Foundation. (More)
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The Barnes
Foundation in Merion, PA. (BarnesFriends.org)
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Barnes Foundation Picks Landscape
Architect
Continuing to prepare for a move to the Benjamin
Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation last
week announced that it has selected the Olin Partnership, a
Philadelphia-based landscape architecture and urban design
firm, to serve as landscape architect for the new site. Tod
Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, along with the
Building Committee of the Barnes Foundation, chose Olin
Partnership because of its international presence and its
significant contributions to the revitalization of numerous
public spaces in Philadelphia, according to a press release
from the foundation. (More)
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Rem Koolhaas and Lily Jencks.
(Newsquest)
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Drawing Up a Blueprint for an Oasis of
Peace and Care
Rem Koolhaas cuts a striking figure as he strides
out in search of inspiration. Roaming the grounds of
Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow's west end, the renowned Dutch
architect, dressed in black Prada, is checking out the three
sites he's been offered on which to build his first-ever
Maggie's Centre. Every so often, he stops to cluster with
members of his party as they rush to catch up. This select
group comprises Koolhaas's main collaborators on the
project: Lily Jencks, daughter of Maggie and Charles, and
Richard Hollington, an associate at the Office for
Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Koolhaas's practice in
Rotterdam, which also has offices in New York and Beijing.
(More)
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Burj Al Alam, at
left - 1,645 feet. (Image courtesy Fortune
Group)
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In a Desert City, a Skyline Grows Ever
Higher
The world's tallest building, the 162-story, 2,680
foot Burj Dubai, designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
(SOM), is set to open next year. But Dubai also has six
other skyscrapers of at least 100 stories in the works,
making it the super-tall building capital of the world --
head and shoulders above other cities. The towers include
SOM's Al Sharq (102 stories, 1,180 ft), National Engineering
Bureau's Marina 101 (101 stories, 1,350 ft), Tameer's
Princess Tower (107 stories, 1,360 ft), Nikon Sekkei's Burj
Al Alam (108 stories, 1,645 ft), Aedas's Pentominium (120
stories, 1,690 ft), and the Tall Tower, formerly known as Al
Burj (projected between 180 and 228 stories, 3,400 to 4,590
ft). Their designs range from the formulaic to the
fantastic. (More)
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Tapering red columns meter
the expansive facades of Terminal 3. (Photo: Nigel
Young/ Foster + Partners)
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Beijing Terminal 3 by Foster
The Chinese have long been good at big gestures, and
one of Beijing's latest - courtesy of London's Foster +
Partners - is lifting spirits in the capital at a rate of
thousands per day. As the world's largest airport terminal,
Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 is a
striking combination of British finesse with China's brute
power and bureaucratic will. The terminal exceeds 11 million
square feet according to Foster + Partners, and is expected
to serve an estimated 50 million passengers per year by
2020, with up to 7,000 international passengers per hour.
The mammoth project is being credited with successfully
re-tuning airport space -- a feat occasionally attempted and
rarely achieved. (More)
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Architect Gary Haney
speaks to the media at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
American History in Washington July 30, 2008. The museum
will reopen for the public on November 21 after a two-year
renovation. (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas)
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