International
A new traveling exhibition celebrating the 90th anniversary of the birth of leading Australian architect of the 20th century, Harry Seidler, has kicked off its international tour. The exhibition traces Austrian-born Seidler’s key role in bringing Bauhaus principles to Australia and identifies his distinctive place and hand within and beyond modernist design methodology.
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Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, 1948-50 Image: Max Dupain
Courtesy Arch News Now
Miami, United States of America
The National YoungArts Foundation has purchased the famous Bacardi complex on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, with plans to create — with Frank Gehry’s help — a new centre of arts activity.
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Courtesy Miami Herald
Oslo, Norway
Norway’s most-famous private museum, the Astrup Fearnley in Oslo, has moved into a brand new building designed by Renzo Piano. The modern art museum is located in what promises to become the city’s hippest neighborhood, Tjuvholmen, a former shipyard and mechanical industry area.
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Image: Nic Lehoux
Courtesy Architizer
Wuhan, China
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has won an international competition to design Qintai Center, a 248m tall, high-performance corporate headquarters tower and related podium structure in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. AS+GG’s winning entry was selected over competing schemes from firms based in the Netherlands, Japan and Hong Kong.
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Image: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Courtesy World Architecture News
New York, United States of America
Foster + Partners have emerged victorious from a competition Mr. Levinson’s L&L Holdings held between some of the world’s most high-profile designers. The British Pritzker Prize winner beat out fellow starchitects Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers, with a daring plan to tear down 75 percent of 425 Park Avenue and replace it with a dynamic new tower.
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Courtesy Observer