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Berlin’s Hermannstrasse station to trial anxiety-inducing music in bid to reduce crime

August 21, 2018 India Block 0

Germany’s national rail operator has announced plans to play atonal music in a Berlin station, in an attempt to deter criminal activity. According to local paper Tagesspiegel, Deutsche Bahn plans to experiment with playing music at different volumes in Hermannstrasse station, to judge its effectiveness at driving away loiterers without upsetting passengers. “Few people find it beautiful —

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Prolific New York architect and Trump collaborator Costas Kondylis dies aged 78

August 21, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Architect Costas Kondylis, who designed countless residential skyscrapers in Manhattan including several for Donald Trump, has died aged 78. Kondylis, widely known as the “developer’s architect”, passed away at his home last week. He designed 86 buildings in New York City during his career, making him one of the city’s most prolific architects. Kondylis most

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Will Alsop’s Heliport Heights skyscraper set to be built in London

August 21, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A 20-storey-high tower designed by the late Will Alsop is set to be constructed beside the River Thames in London and is likely to become the architect’s last major project in the city. Heliport Heights will contain 15 floors of apartments, raised on stilts above an existing five-storey building named Heliport House. It will be clad in irregularly shaped

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Studio Gang’s Mira tower in San Francisco to feature twisting bay windows

August 20, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed new renderings of a 40-storey apartment building in San Francisco, which will feature reinterpretations of the city’s “classic bay windows” spiralled around its exterior. Planned to reach 400 feet (122 metres) high, Studio Gang’s Mira tower is under construction at 280 Spear Street in the city’s Transbay neighbourhood.

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US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer becomes Pritzker Prize chair

August 20, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Justice Stephen Breyer has been appointed to lead the jury for architecture’s most prestigious award. The American lawyer will head the seven-strong panel of jurors that decide the recipient of the annual Pritzker Prize, organisers Tom Pritzker and The Hyatt Foundation announced last week. Breyer follows former chairs, Australian architect Glenn Murcutt (2017-18), and British

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Foster + Partners’ Budapest tower will be built despite city’s new skyscraper ban

August 20, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners’ plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. The Hungarian government is introducing a skyscraper ban in order to preserve the skyline of Budapest, said Gergely Gulyás, minister of the prime minister’s

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“Leave the neighbourhood to heal as it chooses” says MP responding to Grenfell memorial design

August 17, 2018 India Block 0

The MP for Kensington, the London borough containing Grenfell Tower, has spoken out against a conceptual memorial, which she says would re-traumatise residents. Emma Dent Coad, who was elected as the Labour MP for Kensington in 2017, said she was horrified to see the concept from architecture studio JAA, which suggested encasing the burnt-out shell

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Sidewalk Labs unveils design for neighbourhood in Toronto “future city”

August 15, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is proposing “unprecedentedly” tall timber buildings, sprawling public spaces, and heated pavements to melt snow, for the first neighbourhood in its major development on Toronto’s waterfront. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, and its project partner Waterfront Toronto released the designs for an unused 12-acre (9.5-hectare) lakeside site during a roundtable discussion

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UNStudio to design Australia’s tallest building

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio and Cox Architecture have won a competition to design a supertall skyscraper for Melbourne, with a pair of twisting green towers. Called Green Spine, the tallest of the projects’s twinned towers will reach 356.2 metres high making it the tallest building in Australia. The skyscraper will be topped by a publicly accessible botanic garden and greenery

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