The centerpiece of Beijing's Olympic construction, the Bird's Nest, is complete, according to officials. No word, though, on air quality, as every photo I see of this admittedly awesome structure is darkened by...
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"The partners of Swiss architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron – whose works include the National Stadium in Beijing and the Laban Centre for Movement & Dance in London — will receive £90,000 prize money for the prestigious Praemium Imperiale award.
The awards,...
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Pompey's stunning plans include 36,000 seat stadium and 750 apartments in £600m developmentPortsmouth Football club and Sellar Properties have today unveiled ambitious plans for a £600m development in Portsmouth.Designed
by Olympic stadium architects Herzog & de...
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Herzog & de Meuron is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (1950) and Pierre de Meuron (1950), closely parallel one another, with both attending the ETH in Zurich. In...
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Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron should not relinquish their day jobs as high-profile architects in order to become curators or installation artists anytime soon. Their Artist's Choice exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art is perverse, cerebral and probably the most...
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The Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron continue their trajectory of producing spectacular architectural icons with the new Elbphilharmonie (Elbe Concerthall) in Hamburg, Germany. The building is due to be...
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