Demolition of the central park in Taksim

This is about protecting city spaces for local communities (and for all of us), so I feel we should publish, but we do welcome comments on the architectural aspects, we aren’t a newspaper!

Habima Square – Tel Aviv Public Realm

HaBima Square (also known as The Orchestra Plaza) is a public space in the center of the city. It is home to a number of cultural institutions such as the Habima Theatre, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art.

Bialik Square Tel Aviv Buildings & Landscape

The Museum of the History of Tel Aviv-Yafo opened in 2009 in what was the old Tel Aviv Municipality building in Bialik Square. This is an elegant piece of city planning, humble, axial and successful as a place where people like to linger.

Radical Architecture: Architectural Tension

Queens Museum of Art Building - Radical Architecture

The Queens Museum of Art (NY) opens its extension, which will double its size. It is an interesting venture because it highlights the issues relating to the tensions between traditional and more radical art and architecture.

Eduard Wallnoefer Platz: Landhausplatz Innsbruck

Eduard Wallnoefer Platz: Landhausplatz Innsbruck

Eduard Wallnoefer Platz is the largest public square of Innsbruck, located in the city center. Before the transformation, the square was dominated by the facade of the province of Tyrol’s governmental building from the period of National Socialism

Unsung Architect Heroes, Pre Critical Regionalism

James Paul House, Broughty Ferry property

Lindsay Johnston, who ‘did’ architecture in Dundee in the early 1960’s and then worked in Ireland before emigrating to Australia, looks back at two architects who have had a major influence on his life and work

Sculptural Architecture: Nigel Henbury

Sikamino Residence Greece Sculptural Architecture

The Sikamino, house in Greece by the Tense Architectural Network features bold concrete forms of dynamic geometries orchestrating shelter, transitional areas and key horizon lines, blending with the immediate topography.

Star of Caledonia: Gretna Gateway Sculpture

Star of Caledonia Gretna Gateway Scotland

Balmond Studio and The Gretna Landmark Trust are delighted to announce that “Star of Caledonia” today received planning approval from Dumfries & Galloway Council. This brings the vision to create a world class landmark, designed by world-leading artist/designer Cecil Balmond and Dumfriesshire’s eminent land artist Charles Jencks, on the border between Scotland and England one step closer.

Seville Plaza, Metropol Parasol Building

Metropol Parasol - Seville Plaza

Metropol Parasol Building: Seville Plaza, Spain, by J. MAYER H., Architect – Seville architecture images, Metropol Parasol building: finalists for 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

Integration and segregation in architecture

Social Housing Croatia - Integration and Segregation in Architecture

The spaces are configured to allow for multiple views of the encompassing landscape. Inspired by the complex topology of the site, the development endeavors to weave the design with its natural surrounding.

Cadogan Café Competition Chelsea

Sleek and inventive design chosen for key site in Chelsea. NEX has won the Cadogan Café design competition, a £2 million project for a new café, which will sit near the entrance to the Saatchi Gallery in Duke of York Square in Chelsea.