UK government has announced a £50 million contribution to Herzog & de Meuron’s extension at Tate Modern, which it claimed will boost Britain’s cultural offering in the run-up to the Olympics.
The rest of the £215 million budget is now expected to be met by the private sector.

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Frank Gehry’s new hotel in Elciego, Spain, representing his trademark curvy metallic deconstruction. Gehry still has his dream of designing a building in Istanbul, however it most probably won’t happen because of the world renowned Turkish bureaucracy & stuff. Tough luck Frank!

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The winner Luis Asín with MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León

Geir Brendeland

Miran Kambic
Here are a selection of the winners of the Mies van der Rohe awards 2007, named after one of the masters of Modernist architecture and Bauhaus. It seems functionalism and geometry is still in effect in regard to Gehry’s [...]

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With its mobile salesman, Jewish bookstores & bazaars and dirty streets, here’s New York City around 1900. It’s a shame these times are a thing of the past now..

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The Siam Paragon Shopping Center in Bangkok
Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardening is a new organic architectural element, which should be the default in the future.

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