Corbusier in Berlin
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Found this on a hill in Berlin. Flats are available to buy and are probably the cheapest Corbusier flats in the world.

Tees Valley Arts on behalf of Middlesbrough Council with partners Halcrow are seeking expressions of interest from Landscape Architects, Designers, Artists and Architects for an ideas competition for 'roadscape'.

The project offers an opportunity to prototype an idea with a view to seeing its adoption in significant adjacent areas in both East and West Middlesbrough.

An initial brief is available at www.ribacompetitions.com take the link to 'new competitions'. A DVD of the site with interviews with the client group, maps aerial photography and background documents can be obtained from the Riba Competitions office at RIBA Competitions Office | 6 Melbourne Street | Leeds LS2 7PS | Tel: 0113 2341335 | Fax: 0113 2460744

In the first instance you are asked to submit an expression of interest by the 8th  January 2007. Details of how to do so are available from the initial brief that can be downloaded from www.ribacompetitions.com

Shigeru Ban, Curtain Wall House, 1995, Shigeru Ban Architects, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. Photo © Hiroyuki Hirai.

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibit Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture through March 5, 2007. This exhibition explores the common visual and intellectual principles that underlie both fashion and architecture. Both disciplines start with the human body and expand on ideas of space and movement, serving as outward expressions of personal, political, and cultural identity. Architects and fashion designers produce environments defined through spatial awareness—the structures they create are based on volume, function, proportion, and material. Presenting the work of international fashion designers and architects, the exhibition examines themes such as shelter, identity, tectonic strategies, creative process, and parallel stylistic tendencies including deconstruction and minimalism. The exhibition is curated by MOCA Curator of Architecture & Design Brooke Hodge and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Architects and Designers in the Exhibition: Shigeru Ban, Hussein Chalayan, Preston Scott Cohen, Comme des Garçons, Neil M. Denari Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Winka Dubbeldam / Archi-Tectonics, Eisenman Architects, Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT, Foreign Office Architects, Future Systems, Frank Gehry, Tess Giberson, Zaha Hadid Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Toyo Ito, Greg Lynn FORM, Jakob + MacFarlane, Elena Manferdini, Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Miyake Issey, Morphosis, Narciso Rodriguez, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, Jean Nouvel, Office dA, OMA / Rem oolhaas, Ralph Rucci, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, Nanni Strada, Yeohlee Teng, Testa & Weiser, Olivier Theyskens for Rochas, Isabel Toledo, Bernard Tschumi, Dries Van Noten, Viktor & Rolf, Junya Watanabe, Vivienne Westwood, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Yohji Yamamoto, J. Meejin Yoon / MY Studio.

Design for Louis Vuitton Museum.

Louis Vuitton yesterday unveiled plans for an enormous £70m glass museum in Paris. If built – and the project has yet to be given planning permission – it will almost certainly be nicknamed the Cloud, although officially it would be called the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation. The project has been commission by Bernard Arnauld, president of the luxury goods group Louis Vuitton Möet Hennessy and the richest man in France. He said the building was his personal dream and it was his mission to give the public a chance to discover art. The museum will house permanent and temporary exhibitions of contemporary and classical art.

Alexander Ballings

The Chicago Architecture Foundation is hosting a new exhibition: Architecture in Perspective 21 — the 21st International Juried Exhibition of Architectural Illustration. The exhibit is free and on view daily from 9am-5:30pm through November 1st in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s John Buck Company Lecture Hall Gallery at 224 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

Sponsored by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, the show has become the world’s most prestigious forum for architectural drawing and visualization. From the nearly five hundred entries from five continents, the jury selected sixty works suggesting broad and inviting formal and aesthetic avenues.

The Architecture in Perspective 21 jurors include an architect, illustrator, and photographer, representing a full range of talent:

James Baird, FAIA, partner, Holabird & Root Architects. A partner in one of the oldest continual architectural practices in the US , Baird continues the tradition of excellence in design. His projects have received distinguished awards from local and national professional organizations.

Gilbert Gorski, ASAI Member and architectural illustrator. Gorski has achieved worldwide recognition for excellence in architectural illustration, having won the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize in 1990 and 2002. He was awarded the ASAI’s Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement in 2003.
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A message from Go:

This is Sheffield calling. Our city needs your help.
 
We've had an idea to change the way the world sees Sheffield. To make our city better. It's a project called Cooling The Towers. But it's all under threat. Please take five minutes to read this email. Then forward it to everyone else.

This is the best idea Sheffield ever had.

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COOLING THE TOWERS

There are two cooling towers on the edge of Sheffield, next to Meadowhall and the M1.

Currently they mean grey, industrial, Full Monty. Sheffield is over.

We want to turn them into massive works of public art that mean what Sheffield is now: green, creative and different. And amazing.

We've been working on this for two years and from running an initial competition for ideas in our fanzine GO ( www.dontgo.co.uk ), we're now working with Channel 4 as one of the winners of their Big Art Project ( www.channel4.com/bigart). Channel 4 love the idea, and have applied for funding to make it a reality. This is possible. We're almost there.

BUT there's a baddy in the story. They're a big baddy. The owners of the site are called Eon. They own Powergen. After four months of negotiations, and all our arguments for why this is a good idea (which you can find on our website) they've decided to knock the towers down and build another industrial shed.

Sheffield wins again.

We think this is too good an idea and too good a chance for Sheffield to just give up, and let them have their way. Knocking these towers down will be a tragedy.

So we need your help.

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What if you're not from Sheffield? This still affects you. It's just another example of A Big Corporation with no brains doing what they want and ignoring people like you and me. We're not luddites and we're not revolutionaries. We've just got a good idea and they're not interested in listening. Who decides how our cities develop, what they mean? Us or them?

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HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

SIGN THIS PETITION. Someone's already set a petition up. You can see how strongly people feel. Sign it here http://www.petitiononline.com/tct2/petition.html

GO TO OUR MYSPACE. We're working on a proper website, but for now this is the digital HQ. This is where you'll information and updates. Be our friend. Get your friends to be our friends. www.myspace.com/coolingthetowers

EMAIL EON. Tell them why they're wrong. For some sample text, click here. Email the chief exec here: paul.golby@eon-uk.com That's Dr Paul Golby to you. Evidently he's not got a doctorate in Doing The Right Thing. It only takes five minutes. Do it now.

TURN EON OFF. If you're a customer, tell them you'll change power suppliers if the towers are knocked down. In fact, just do it now. Why not go a bit greener? Eon produce more CO2 every year than the whole of Croatia. Change to Ecotricity www.ecotricity.co.uk/switch

SHOW YOUR FACE. We're going to create a photographic petition. As well as a list of names, we want to actually show the world how many people support these towers and this project. So if you do, take a picture of yourself, or the towers, or of you holding the phrase 'THE TOWERS ARE OURS' and send it to us with your name and location. We'll put it on the website. And tell your friends to do it too. Send it here go.sheffield@gmail.com

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We love this city so much. We're not going to sit back and watch it lose out again. We're tired of Sheffield being the loser. We want people across the world to know what this city means, realise how brilliant it is.

We don't want another toys r us.

Please help us.

Love from

GO X

ts industrial heart ripped out, for years Steel City watched as neighbouring Manchester and Leeds sped ahead. But now, chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, has Sheffield's time come?

Read the article on bbc.co.uk