Review: OMA / Progress @ Barbican Centre
New show at the Barbican aims to solve “the problem with architecture exhibitions”.
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New Images Of Commonwealth Institute
Architect responsible for overhaul of Modernist icon releases new photographs.
New Gallery Extension Proposed For V&A
The Victorian & Albert museum is to launch a competition to design a new gallery on its eastern flank. In the mid-1990s, the V&A museum ran a similar competition. The winner was Daniel Libeskind’s Spiral, a provocative £80m deconstructed block that somehow won planning permission …
Tweaks Made To Commonwealth Institute Plan
The plans released for the Commonwealth Institute in April, pictured above, managed to piss off just about every vested interest in the project. English Heritage, who describe it as “the most important public building in Britain of the late Fifties”, deplored the gutting of the …
Commonwealth Institute Could House Design Museum
In a languorous reminiscence, the Evening Standard’s architecture critic runs through his childhood memories of the Commonwealth Institute and considers its future plans for development. Nothing new there – as we reported one year ago, the aging, long-closed structure is due for a makeover at …
Key Architects Make Mark On London
A couple of news items guaranteed to register on Prince Charles’ carbuncle-ometer: plans for London commissions by two of modern architecture’s most innovative practitioners took a step forward this week. Back in January Frank Gehry was announced as the designer of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, …
