Architects & design Focus – Page 12

  • Here is Richard Rogers, flanked by his heirs apparent: Ivan Harbour, on the right, and Graham Stirk.
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    The abdication

    2006-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Here is Richard Rogers, flanked by his heirs apparent: Ivan Harbour, on the right, and Graham Stirk. But when will the great man go? What will his successors do when he does? And in the meantime, can they stop Marco Goldschmied’s legal actions taking away their offices? Martin Spring investigates ...

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    Life after la corrida

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Barcelona’s disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers’ vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.

  • Instead of stone ashlar, a lush vertical garden cloaks the wing facing the riverfront.
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    Jean de florette

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.

  • 1, The Spanish winery is capped by five barrel vaults that adopt the structurally efficient parabolic form pioneered by Antoni Gaudì
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    Vintage Rogers

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;

  • Owen Luder Gateshead carpark
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    Get Luder: Owen Luder’s fight to save Gateshead carpark

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    From the archive: Back in 2005 Building joined the architect as he tried to save his brutallist car park, made famous by the film Get Carter, from demolition

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    Kunsthaus Graz: You sexy thing

    2003-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Graz is celebrating its status as Europe’s capital of culture with a dazzling architectural display – and a British contribution is stealing the show. We visited Kunsthaus Graz, a shocking, sensuous, biomorphic art gallery designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier – and still found time to sample the city’s ...