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MAY 10, 2024

The British Museum has announced the launch of an international competition to redesign major portions of the gallery spaces inside the institution’s Grade I-listed neo-classical Smirke building in Central London. ” The British Museum Western Range Architectural Competition is open for e.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

London's Museum of Architecture has revealed the 2023 slate of participating design firms in its annual Gingerbread City exhibition, along with an expanded American component taking place in New York City through the end of the holiday season.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The overall winner will be announced at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London on January 29, 2024. The overall winner will be announced at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London on January 29, 2024. The museum will exhibit both the winning and shortlisted drawings from January 31st through March 3rd.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

To train the model, Anadol’s studio used open-access information from institutions including the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum alongside various other universities, museums, foundations, government entities, and libraries.

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MAY 26, 2023

This weekend marks the opening of the National Building Museum ’s special two-year Brick City exhibition, staged with the help of UK-based artist Warren Elsmore. Pancras Station made using over 180,000 individual pieces.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Tomorrow, drawings from the prize will go on display at an exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, including finalists and category winners. ‘(Re)membering the See Monster’ has been named as the overall winner of the 2023 Architecture Drawing Prize.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The winning drawings, along with the shortlisted entries will be displayed at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 29 November until 1 December 2023, and at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 31 January to 3 March 2024. The winners of each category have been announced. Read more »

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JANUARY 8, 2024

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is set to open an exhibition on the modernist architectural style that emerged in 1940s West Africa.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Exciting news in the museum world as the first site of the long-awaited Victoria & Albert Museum’s East extension has officially topped out as of this week. The new V&A East has been years in the making.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Museums in Denmark and the Netherlands will close as part of new coronavirus lockdown measures being imposed in both countries in reaction to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the disease. In London, the Natural History Museum is closed until December 27th due to staffing shortages caused by Covid.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition is set to open at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. The event, opening on January 31, will display drawings by the finalists and category winners of the latest Architecture Drawing Prize edition, which we reported on in November 2023.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Tate Modern in London has announced its compliance with the UK High Court’s February ruling regarding a privacy case that involved its 10th-floor viewing gallery and five residents of the adjacent Neo Bankside apartments. The remedy will help the Tate avoid paying any monetary damages, as was the will of the plaintiffs.

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APRIL 27, 2023

A field of six shortlisted candidates to author a comprehensive overhaul of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has been announced by the institution following a call for proposals that was released by London’s Malcolm Reading Consultants in February.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Moriyama Teshima Architects in collaboration with renowned architects Maki and Associates designed and delivered this landmark cultural complex, consisting of the Aga Khan Museum and the Ismaili Centre (designed with Charles Correa Associates).

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

From the myriad of projects published on Archinect this year, we have picked some of the stand-out newly-opened buildings by noteworthy architects in New York, Taipei, London, Shenzhen, Sydney, Amsterdam, Quito, Sharjah, Los Angeles, Singapore, Paris, and more. Foster + Partners 425 Park Avenue. Photo: Alan Schindler.

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APRIL 30, 2024

A group led by Milan/London-based a-fact has won an international competition for the design of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Natural History Museum, and Park of Arts & Culture in Podgorica, Montenegro. Read the full post on Bustler

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MARCH 29, 2024

Cartlidge is the co-founder of London design studio Cartlidge Levene and considers the core ethos of his work to "produce design that makes a meaningful and positive contribution to the world". Understanding how visitors would interact with the new museum with its vast atrium and soaring parabolic roof was a fascinating and in-depth process.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This year’s jury was composed of critic Hans Ibelings, ETH Zurich landscape professor Teresa Galí-Izard, Athens-based resiliency advisor Eleni Myrivili, Assemble, London founder Paloma Strelitz, Slovenian architect Špela Videčnik, Swiss Architecture Museum dire. ” Its scope entailed extending the final 1.1-kilometer

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JANUARY 7, 2022

This level of attendance is nearly the same as the previous year, however French museums were closed for one month less in 2021 than in 2020. According to an official source at the culture ministry, general attendance at French museums dropped by 60-70% for the second year compared to pre-covid levels.

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MARCH 7, 2022

The long-awaited inaugural phase of what will eventually serve as the future home of London’s Zaha Hadid Foundation (ZHF) is now set to go after the organization announced a new museum and research center initiative slated for two locations in the adopted hometown of its late namesake.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Møller announced the closure of its London operations last week. One of Europe’s largest and most successful firms is downsizing after C. According to a report in AJ , the office had reported losses totaling £211,000 ($260,421) between 2019 and 2021. Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Center by C.F.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

We've selected five opportunities in the design, culture and art sectors featured on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at the British Museum , David Gill Gallery and Nanimarquina. The museum hosted a series of talks in January this year titled Egyptomania!

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APRIL 1, 2024

Submit your entry by midnight London time on 30 May to avoid late entry fees. His work is held in permanent collections in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art , V&A , Design Museum , M+ Museum , and Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Dezeen Awards 2024, in partnership with Bentley , is open for entries.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

A new exhibition featuring the globe-spanning designs of Es Devlin will be on display at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York this fall along with a series of talks and other public programming focused on the constantly shifting perspectives that have defined her work over the past thirty years.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Awarded every year by the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, the Soane Medal seeks to celebrate the importance of architecture in culture and society, recognizing figures who have made significant contributions through practice, history, or theory.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Local studio Architecture for London has designed an interior for stationery store Present & Correct in London , which features gridded joinery and draws on "wunderkammer" cabinets of curiosities. However, budgetary constraints meant that Architecture for London couldn't use hardwood for the joinery.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

bespoke skate ramp arrives at london’s Design Museum From October 2023 to June 2024, London’s Design Museum hosts the Skateboard exhibition, where visitors can skate on a bespoke 3.5-foot foot mini ramp.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The expansive show, named simply Skateboard , is running at London’s Design Museum and is curated by author, designer and skater Jonathan Olivares , featuring more than 90 examples of boards, alongside other skate ephemera and hardware including wheels, magazines and VHS tapes. Photography: Felix Speller / London Design Museum.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Architecture studio Eric Parry Architects has updated its plans for the One Undershaft skyscraper in the City of London , increasing its height to make it the UK's joint tallest building. The height of both buildings is determined by a Civil Aviation Authority safety policy that restricts the height of buildings in central London to 309.6

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MARCH 20, 2023

Ai Weiwei has unveiled a new large-scale reproduction of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies as part of an upcoming exhibition of the architect-provocateur’s work on view from April 7 at the Design Museum in London. Without a personal narrative, artistic narration loses its quality. Toy bricks as the material, with.

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APRIL 24, 2023

London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has shared details of its new Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa exhibition that will be included in the upcoming 2023 Venice Biennale in May.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Image caption: Templeton Garden | Image credit: Miiro Templeton Garden, London is slated for early 2025. With a design inspired by the old-world charm of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the hotel draws on the creative culture of the surrounding boulevards and avenues to create a new community within the neighbourhood.

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MAY 9, 2023

The international jury for this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale has been announced by the fair’s Board of Directors in advance of its May 20th opening.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

For a renovation and expansion of the Design Museum Gent, an innovative new recycling process is turning old bits of broken concrete and glass into the bricks that will cover the museum’s exterior. As reported by Fast Company , the materials were collected mostly from within five miles of the museum.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If you're visiting London for the Dezeen Awards 2023 party taking place on 28 November, here are 10 architecture and design exhibitions also taking place in the city. and Makerversity: Designing for the Real World and Skateboard are among the exhibitions open to visit in London during November. Diva , AI: Who's Looking After Me? ,

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JUNE 10, 2022

Citing a shift in both institutions’ “strategic priorities”, RIBA has announced the conclusion of its popular 20-year exhibition partnership with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in a joint statement. The partnership will come to an end in 2027 after a collaboration that began officially in 2004.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

London's former City Hall, which was designed by British studio Foster+ Partners , is set to be renovated and extended as part of an overhaul by US architecture studio Gensler. Gensler is set to overhaul the former City Hall in London. Our proposal offers a diverse array of amenities for all to appreciate."

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