Articles by Amy Frearson

Vision unveiled for London school powered by Thames tide

June 14, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for “London’s greenest public building”, a school that would be entirely powered using the tidal movements of the River Thames. The conceptual plans for the Thames Tidal Powered School involve a building that juts out over London’s principle waterway. A series of large turbines positioned underneath would then allow

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“The Iceberg” housing in Aarhus becomes a playground for penguins in new animation

June 12, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Penguins slide and somersault down the sloping rooftops of a popular Aarhus housing complex in this animated movie, created by French film studio 11h45. The film features Isbjerget, also known as The Iceberg, the huge harbour-side housing development completed in 2013 by a team of architects and studios including JDS Architects, CEBRA, SeARCH and Louis Paillard. In the movie, this angular structure

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Foster and Heatherwick complete Shanghai theatre with curtain-like facade

June 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Images have emerged of a new arts and culture centre by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio, which forms part of a new financial quarter the two firms are building on Shanghai’s waterfront. The Fosun Foundation is the centrepiece of the Bund Finance Center, a new mixed-use complex designed by Norman Foster’s architecture firm and Thomas Heatherwick’s

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UK architects and designers reveal “mixed emotions” after election result

June 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

After a surprising election result, the UK’s architects and designers are reacting to the uncertainty of a hung parliament, and what it means for upcoming Brexit negotiations. Theresa May’s Conservatives’ remains the largest party in parliament after yesterday’s vote. But it only won 318 seats, eight short of the majority needed to form government, resulting in a hung parliament. The Tories now

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Haworth’s new Leadership Community Space is designed to “attract and retain top talent”

June 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Office furniture brand Haworth has created an experimental workspace for its leadership team, which shows how offices can be designed to help companies retain talented staff and be more innovative. In the first in a new series of articles produced in collaboration with Haworth, we look at the Leadership Community Space, which was recently created at the company’s Michigan headquarters,

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Haworth’s new Leadership Community Space is designed to “attract and retain top talent”

June 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Office furniture brand Haworth has created an experimental workspace for its leadership team, which shows how offices can be designed to help companies retain talented staff and be more innovative. In the first in a new series of articles produced in collaboration with Haworth, we look at the Leadership Community Space, which was recently created at the company’s Michigan headquarters,

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Haworth’s new Leadership Community Space is designed to “attract and retain top talent”

June 9, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Office furniture brand Haworth has created an experimental workspace for its leadership team, which shows how offices can be designed to help companies retain talented staff and be more innovative. In the first in a new series of articles produced in collaboration with Haworth, we look at the Leadership Community Space, which was recently created at the company’s Michigan headquarters,

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Architects favour Labour Party in UK general election

June 7, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

The majority of UK architects plan to vote for the Labour Party in tomorrow’s general election, according to research from industry magazine The Architects’ Journal. A report published today on the magazine’s website suggests that the political party led by Jeremy Corbyn is significantly more popular with architects than Theresa May’s Conservative Party, which is currently in power.

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Lego launches Guggenheim Museum kit to mark Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday

June 7, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Lego has made a new addition to its architectural model series: the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum. The late American architect, who was born 8 June 1867, completed the New York art museum in 1959. With its unusual spiralling galleries, it went on

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MVRDV completes a tower block that resembles a giant staircase

June 5, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

MVRDV has built a tower block in Poznań, Poland, that looks like a huge staircase from one angle, while from another it looks like it’s about to topple over. The 16-storey Bałtyk tower is the first building in Poland by Rotterdam-based MVRDV, and was completed in partnership with local firm Natkaniec Olechnicki Architekci. The tower features a dramatically staggered

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